Dear reader,

Greetings from Jordanville!

I pray this note finds you well. This is the fourth week of Great Lent
and I sincerely ask for your forgiveness for any errors or confusion,
for scandalizing you in any way, and for any other “blind spots” that
affected you but went unnoticed by me.

On January 26, my mother, Veronika, was admitted to hospital in
Cooperstown, NY for what we thought would be a stay of several days… On
February 28, she passed away there.

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April 8, 2024

The Second All-American Sobor

ROCOR's Recieving Corporation Status

One State - One Church Solution in Hitler's Germany

Regarding Communication Via Open Letters

Why Does History Matter?

Archbishop Theophan of Poltava

An Ascetic Hierarch with a Difficult Personality

ROCOR and the 1948 WCC Assembly

An Important Milestone in the ROCOR’s Attitude toward Ecumenism

Two Bishops who Joined the Moscow Patriarchate in 1945

It is Hard to Understand the Realities in Russia from Abroad

Bishop Daniel (Sherstennikov)

From an Early Stage of the ROCOR’s Involvement in Russia

Rev. Afanasii (Savitskii)

Decentralization vs. Centralization

Archimandrite Kiprian (Kern)

A Scholar and Monk Abroad

St. Xenia: Veneration and Glorification in ROCOR

A Fool for Christ in the New Imperial City

Protopresbyter Alexey Ionov

A Good Shepherd and Staunch Anticommunist

Abbess Elisabeth (Ampenoff)

Abbess Elisabeth (Ampenoff) passed away on this day in 1999. The following account has been written by Reader John M. Harwood: Something must be said of the Russian Orthodox Convent of the Annunciation which I have already mentioned in connection with Father George . This was established by Abbess Elizabeth (Ampenoff) in 1954. The Ampenoff family had lived in London …

The All-Russian Council of 1945

Another Canonically Unprecedented Event of the 20th Century

How HTS Came Into Being

Some Background History of Holy Trinity Seminary

Eastern Orthodoxy in Australasia II: The Russians

This early piece of research in English predating studies of the Mitred Archpriest Michael Protopopoff is published here with the kind permission of the editorial board of St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly. In his first article, mentioned in the text the author focused on the Greek present in Australasia.

Перестала ли византийская церковь быть церковью при иконоборцах?

Отзыв свят. Иоанна на выражение "советская Церковь"

Did the Byzantine Church Cease to be the Church During Iconoclasm?

St. John reflects upon the expression "the Soviet Church." Archpriest Peter Perekrestov found the draft of this letter. St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco wrote it on this day in 1963.