Tag: orthodox

The Reluctant to Accept and Reluctantly Accepted Bishop

Dr Athanasius McVay at his blog, Annales Ecclesiae Ucrainae, has posted a recent essay on Count Roman Alexander Sheptytsky, better known as Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, the famous leader of the Ukrainian Greek…

Chrysostom – Newsletter 7, Pascha 2008

Father John Salter, Chairman of the Society, writes: The last half year has been eventful for the Society. The collapse of the ceiling of the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family-…

Sisters in Christ, John Salter:

Sisters in Christ: Practical Ecumenism from contemporary documents, 1935-1951, edited by The Reverend A T J Salter, Urosevic Foundation, £6, obtainable from the Chairman of the Society Sisters in Christ is a…

Mother Maria Skobtsova

The Pearl of Great Price: The Life of Mother Maria Skobstova, 1891-1945, Father Sergei Hackel. £12.99 Silent as a Stone – Mother Maria of Paris and the Trash Can Rescue, Jim Forest.£9.99p…

Repose of Archbishop Elias Zoghby, 1912-2008

Fr John Salter writes: His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III, Melkite Greek Catholic of Antioch and All The East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem, the Bishops of the Holy Synod of the Melkite…

Repose of Joan Rutt, 3 April 1919 – 17 September 2007

Canon Richard Rutt writes: Joan`s parents, Arthur John Ford (clerk in the railway Clearing House) and Esther Paine, came from Cheddar, where Joan spent her childhood summer holidays. She was born at…

Mountains and Monasteries: A Pilgrimage to Armenia

Alan Watson writes: In September 2006, I had the privilege of joining the pilgrimage of the Anglican and Eastern Churches Association to Armenia, my third with them, having visited Syria and Finland…