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An Interview with Mother Maria We met Mother Maria (Sidiropoulo), abbess of the only Orthodox convent in Germany, a few years ago in Moscow’s Marfo-Mariinsky Convent of Mercy. On that day, the director and telejournalist from Syktyvkara, Vladimir Krivtsun, was shooting a documentary on Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna. Imagine our surprise when we found a [...]
There are more Orthodox Christians than representatives of other religions among residents of Estonia aged 15 and above. 16% of Estonia’s population call themselves Orthodox, reports Interfax Religion. According to the 2011 population and living space census, 10% of the Estonian population consider themselves Lutherans, reported the Department of Statistics on Monday. At the same [...]
By Mary Eberstadt Orthodoxy and Orthodox Christian morality for the win. Pay attention, Orthodox Christians. The author is talking about ‘orthodox’ Christianity, not Orthodoxy – as long as Orthodoxy remains orthodox (pardon the pun), there is no limit to our missionary potential in this century. We’re all that’s left. Small wonder, given the harrowing times [...]
Friends of Journey To Orthodoxy; Since JTO won the Eastern Christian New Media Award for best Domestic Website/Blog last year, we’ve been inundated with contacts – requests for information, chats, emails and even some phone calls! This keeps us up several hours per day and night corresponding with inquirers seeking information on Orthodoxy and parishes [...]
Below is his official obituary. Our prayers go to all who knew and loved him, and for the repose of his holy soul. Archimandrite John Maitland Moir (1924 – 2013) Father John Maitland Moir, Priest of the Orthodox Church of St Andrew in Edinburgh, founder of many smaller Orthodox communities throughout Scotland and Orthodox Chaplain [...]
Another story of Orthodoxy in Scotland. More on Fr. John will be forthcoming next week. One of Scotland’s most senior priests died just weeks after seeing his “life’s work” complete – as his once tiny congregation bought a huge new church. Eastern Orthodox clergyman John Maitland Moir died last week at the age of 89, [...]
Being a Protestant, I of course did not fish outside the Protestant pool. I became an Anglican, and thereafter, an Anglican priest.
The second Wednesday of Great Lent this year, March 14/27, will mark the 246th anniversary of the falling asleep in the Lord of the ever-memorable Colonel Philip Ludwell III, of Williamsburg, VA, the first documented convert to Orthodoxy in the Americas. Last year, the First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad, His Eminence Hilarion, Metropolitan [...]
In the penal colony no. 1 of the Russian Management of Federal Service of Execution of Punishments in the Arkhangelsk region (the village of Pirsy) one of the main Church Sacraments, Holy Baptism, was performed. The Church calls Baptism the second birth. The Baptisms were performed in St. Tryphon’s Church, situated on the territory of [...]
by Protodeacon Christopher Birchall My first visit to an Orthodox church was in June 1968, when Archbishop Nikon brought the miraculous Kursk Icon of the Mother of God to London. I had no idea that this would be a special occasion in the life of the parish; I had found the address in the [...]
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