The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

I don't know if it's a mistranslation or not, but with this Matrona of Moskva, I know one thing our dearest brother Nektarios (who is on this forum) pointed out was that Matrona of Moskva has a near identical vita to St. Matrona of Anemnyasevo, who was a Katakombnik and a New Martyr who died in pris...

@Jean-Serge I hate to spam this thread with replies (I plan on making this my last one) but the UAOC *did not* have its origins in the MP. Filaret Denysenko came from the MP but he was involved in the UOC-KP, not the UAOC. The UAOC's origins are... interesting, because there's three different narrat...

I am not going to justify the short-lived (two years) union with the confused and divided UAOC, though I will say Patriarch Volodymyr was a respected hierarch who had renounced Soviet citizenship in 1976 and was likely poisoned to death. I assumed the union was not solely with the Milan Synod, as I...

Did the synod approve of Abp Aux. granting a tomos of autonomy to Milan? Is it required for synodal approval for a tomos to be granted? From what I hear regarding counter arguments, the main counter argument against the tomos of autonomy granted to Milan was that it was done without synodal approva...

...   Well he was doing it for ages and only asked the elder because conservative World Orthodox outside of Cyprus found out from the video, and criticised it. Not what I would call correct but of course I would not want to kick him after he admitted it. I also did not know that it was wrong in the...