By Nickolas Barbin Childhood My journey is long, starting as a Roman Catholic, next becoming Southern Baptist, then a (non-denominational) Pentecostal, then Charismatic Evangelical, then Eastern Orthodox. Originally, I was raised, and baptized Roman Catholic in Louisiana. My parents divorced when I was a year or two old and my father immediately remarried. My father […]
New Orthodox Mission Opens in Wales
Welsh, Romanian, and Russian parishioners came together on Sunday for the first Divine Liturgy at a new mission parish in Wales. With the blessing of His Grace Bishop Irinei of London and Western Europe of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, the Liturgy for the new mission of Sts. David of Wales and Nicholas […]
Versailles, KY Mission Holds First Divine Services
On Friday the 10th and Saturday the 11th of September, St. Matrona Mission held its first services in Versailles, KY. Priest Jonah Campbell, mission rector and rector of Christ the Savior Church in Wayne, WV, served the All-Night Vigil and celebrated Divine Liturgy for the Beheading of St. John the Baptist. Protodeacon Jeremiah Davis (mission […]
Orthodox Cross Erected on Future Site of Caribbean Island’s First Orthodox Church
A three-barred Orthodox cross has been erected and blessed on Dominica, marking the future site of the Caribbean island nation’s first Orthodox church. The cross was blessed by Hieromonk Ambrose (Sitalo), who is based in Grenada but also serves throughout the Caribbean. Fr. George Maximov, a missionary priest based in Moscow, reports: An Orthodox cross was […]
12 Monophysites baptized into holy Orthodoxy in the Philippines
Dipolog, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, September 8, 2021 A great spiritual event occurred in the Philippines this week, as a group of 12 men and women were baptized into Christ in His holy Orthodox Church in the waters of the West Philippine Sea. The dozen newly-illumined are all former members of a […]