Tag: Russian Orthodox
Metropolitan Orestes the Champion of Orthodox Reunion Movement in America
14/1/14 Website of the Dioscese: Metropolitan Orestes was the first Bishop and founder of American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. He ... Read More
Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia established in India with Deacon Fr Silouan being Ordained
OCP News Service - 5/1/13 Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (Moscow Patriarchate) India/Banglore: Deacon Fr Silouan was formally ordained to the Holy Priesthood in Archangel ... Read More
Russian Orthodox Church: repentance must precede baptism of babies born to surrogate mothers
4/1/13 The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has issued a statement on the baptism of infants born to surrogate mothers. After expressing sympathy ... Read More
Church image on festive toilet rolls has Russian Orthodox fuming
Helen Womack -Moscow 29/12/13 Russian Orthodox believers are up in arms because a company producing toilet paper has brought out a festive batch of rolls ... Read More
The Holy Synod concludes its last session in 2013
T he Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church held on December 25-26 its last session in 2013. The Synod granted the petition for retirement ... Read More
Statement on the events in Ukraine by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church
The document was adopted by the Russian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod at its meeting on December 25-26, 2013 (Minutes No. 132). The last months of ... Read More
Russian Orthodox church wins three-year fight for right to build near Eiffel Tower
Agence France-Presse - 26/12/13 French authorities have given permission for a new Russian Orthodox church to be built near the Eiffel Tower, a project that ... Read More
Russian Orthodox Church is open to dialogue with Pussy Riot, but without provocations
Moscow/Krasnoyarsk, December 23, Interfax - The Moscow Patriarchate is hoping that the members of the feminist punk group Pussy Riot who have been released from ... Read More
Russian Orthodox Church Urges Inquiry Into Religious Cult
December 2013 MOSCOW, December 2 (RIA Novosti) – A spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church called for an inquiry Monday into the activities of a ... Read More
Russian Orthodox Church Gives Flamboyant Crooner Top Award
MOSCOW, December 18 (RIA Novosti) – The leader of the Russian Orthodox Church presented the nation’s answer to Frank Sinatra with a top award on ... Read More
Russia Urges Release of Abducted Orthodox Nuns in Syria
MOSCOW, December 4 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Foreign Ministry and the Russian Orthodox Church have demanded the release of a group of nuns reportedly captured ... Read More
Separation of Church & state to remain intact – Russian Patriarch
November 2015 The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has rejected allegations of a possible official union between his institution and the state, adding that ... Read More
Putin and Pope Francis discuss drive for peace in Syria
27/11/13 Russian President Vladimir Putin has met Pope Francis in what the Vatican described as a "cordial and constructive meeting." Putin later dined with Silvio ... Read More
Russians flock to exhibition glorifying Romanovs’ rule
Eleonore Dermy - 25/11/13 MOSCOW: With a queue stretching at least a kilometer, a high-tech exhibition giving a rosy view of the house of Romanov ... Read More
Preparations Begin for the 13th All-Diaspora Russian Orthodox Youth Conference
24/11/13 Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia - Moscow Patriarchate The 13th All-Diaspora Russian Orthodox Youth Conference is scheduled to be held on June 27-July 4, ... Read More
MP seeks to establish Orthodox Christianity as national Constitution basis
24/11/13 Center left MP Yelena Mizulina, known for her pro-life stance and conflicts with leaders of the LGBT community, has suggested amending the constitution emphasizing ... Read More
The Russian Orthodox Church has warned of a “genocide” against Christians and other religious minorities, urging the international community to take action.
20/11/13 The Russian Orthodox Church has warned of a “genocide” against Christians and other religious minorities, urging the international community to take action. The call ... Read More
Russians believe influence of Orthodox faith on country’s development is considerable – poll
Moscow, November 13, Interfax – The majority of Russian citizens admit that the Orthodox Church plays a significant role in the history of the country ... Read More
First Service in Preoprazhensky Cathedral With the Kursk-Root Icon
16/11/13 Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia- Mscow Patriarchate Early in the morning of November 15, 2013, His Eminence Metropolitan Veniamin of Vladivostok and Primorsk performed ... Read More
Activists criticise plans to build on site of 14th-century monastery in Moscow
The florid style of the new cathedral design by the Moscow architect Dmitry Smirnov has been dubbed by Russian media as “Chekist gothic”, a ... Read More
Russian Orthodox Church returns to Mideast
14/11/13 Given the diplomatic and military presence that Moscow has recently established on the Mediterranean and in the Levant, it is only natural that its ... Read More