Tag: russian

Election of Patriarch Kirill

The Russian Orthodox Church on Tuesday 27 January 2009 elected Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russian, the new spiritual father and head of the Russian…

The Orthodox Church of Georgia

Fr John Salter writes: The Russian invasion of Georgia sees two Orthodox countries at war with each other. This, though sad, should not surprise us when one looks at the relationship over…

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…

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…

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…

East-West Monastic Meeting VIIa, Turvey Abbey, October 2006

The East-West Monastic Meeting at Minster Abbey this year having little opportunity for the usual more open participation, the community of nuns belonging to the Vita et Pax Foundation within the Olivetan…