Organizational issues of the Supreme Church Administration of the Orthodox Russian Church in 1918 [PDF]
The article provides a brief overview of the organizational issues of the activities of the Supreme Church Administration bodies under the leadership of Patriarch Tikhon in 1918 based on the study of documents from the Office of the Patriarch and the ...
Evgeniy Ageev
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The ministry of the future martyr archbishop hieromartyr Seraphim (Samoilovich) in Alaska (1902‒1908) [PDF]
The future Archbishop Serafim (Samoilovich) immediately after graduating from the Poltava Theological Seminary was appointed to the Aleut diocese as a teacher at the Unalaska missionary School.
Olga Kosik
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The struggle for the possession of miraculous and revered icons after 1917 [PDF]
The article is devoted to the struggle for the possession of miraculous and revered icons after the 1917 revolution. After the fall of the autocracy, the confrontation over the location of one or another revered relic became very acute.
Pavel Rogozny
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The origin and activity of Yelets autocephaly in Orel diocese in the early 1920s: a history of resistance to the Renovationist Schism in the Russian Orthodox Church [PDF]
The article discusses the process of creation in 1922-1923. Yelets autocephaly, whose leaders - as well as the leaders of the Petrograd, Ufa, Belev and Nizhny Tagil autocephalies - refused to recognize the authority of the renovationist "Supreme Church ...
Timofey Balyko
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«Aksenov, firm in the truth…» [PDF]
The article deals with an influential church figure of the XX century. Leonid Dmitrievich Aksenov, a friend of His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon, and in the 1930s a consultant to the Deputy Patriarchal Locum Tenens (later Patriarchal Locum Tenens) of ...
Olga Kosik
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The “Formula” of holy martyr metropolitan Kirill (Smirnov) from the notebook of holy martyr bishop Damaskin (Tsedrik) [PDF]
This article makes public an extremely important document of the first (according to the will of Holy Patriarch Tikhon) candidate for the position of the Patriarchal Locum Tenens Hieromartyr Metropolitan Kirill (Smirnov). It was written in April 1934 and
Vladimir Vorobjev +2 more
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From Biography to Hymnography : On the Canonization of Patriarch Tikhon
Per‐Arne Bodin
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All-Russian extraordinary commission (Cheka) and Russian Orthodox Church in 1918 [PDF]
The article examines the formation of Cheka’s policy towards the Orthodox Russian Church in December 1917 — November 1918. The main milestones in the rise of anti-church terror are traced.
Sergei Leonov
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«Russia is being openly destroyed by satanic forces...»: a memo from Archpriest Vladimir Vostokov to Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky) [PDF]
In this publication, the reader is offered a note compiled by a well-known participant in the White Movement in the South of Russia, Priest Vladimir Vostokov, in connection with the decision of the Supreme Church Administration Abroad on August 19 ...
Yu. A. Biryukova, A. S. Puchenkov
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The Chronology of the Renovationist «Revolution» in the Russian Church in May, 1922 according to New Archival Documents [PDF]
The Chronology of the Renovationist «Revolution» in the Russian Church in May, 1922 according to New Archival Documents S.N. Ivanov The article covers the events of the beginning of the Renovationist schism in the Russian Orthodox Church, in particular ...
Ivanov Sergei, deacon
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