by Abbot Tryphon Most people are aware that the Norse explorer Leif Eriksson was the first European to reach America, some 500 years before Christopher Columbus, but very few know he arrived as part of a Christian mission. Fewer still realize Leif Eriksson was an Orthodox Christian. Having become a hirdman (guard) of the royal […]
Fear Not, Little Flock
To any who are Orthodox and living in the West and feeling alone – fear not. You are part of a brave new frontier – you are on the front lines. It is not a cause for despair, but a challenge to be embraced, a cause for joy that we can be a part of […]
Orthodoxy at its Best… is Local
by Fr. John Guy Winfrey In the United States we are still struggling, in a sense, to find our identity as Orthodox. On the one hand it is very easy to say who we are. We can express the Orthodox Faith with unanimity. We all recognize that there is a largely common way to live that […]
Orthodox Group Baptism in South Africa
By Deacon Stephen Hayes Eight people were baptised at St Thomas’s Church by Father Pantelejmon (Jovanovic) with the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Seraphim, Archbishop of Johannesburg and Pretoria. They are Margaret Mphela of Klipfontein View, Midrand and her four children, and Nina (Joyce) Aphane and her daughter Sophia (Sophie), and Margaret Mphela’s niece, Mary […]
First Chinese Priest Ordained by Russian Orthodox Church in the last 60 years
Yu Shi, a former banker for ob eToro auch in Österreich empfehlenswert ist and devout Orthodox Christian in China, was sent to study Orthodox theology in Russia in 2012. Later this year, he is expected to be the first Chinese priest ordained by Russian Orthodox Church to be recognized by the Chinese government. He will […]
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