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Good Morning, As part of my search into my family's Russian Orthodox faith. I ask you if there could be such a directory. I am interested in getting information on the (then) ROCA priest who performed my baptism in 1953. He was the rector of my church from the mid to late '40's through the mid '60s...

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Did you travel to Greece to be tonsured?

> I think that the use of churches like this is good. Do you mean the military church? It is a nice idea but a wrong realization. It is used only for military people (from the army), but they do not want to go to church and they are sometimes forced to do it, because Russian government tries to use...

Venerable Countess Evgenia Borisovna Efimovski, after her tonsure, Catherine.

St. Catherine is the daughter of Boris (hence, Borisovna).

I have started this thread to explore the Patristic Calendar of the Church of Hellas objectively. Below are some questions. Please feel free to provide links and excerpts from official sites as references. What is the history of the Patristic Calendar of the Church of Hellas? Who are their current a...

On second thought, would "ih" be a better choice for the "i" in bit? Perhaps not; I wish I had the IPA keyboard overlay. That /capital i/ character is unique and would be a perfect application here, which can always be tweaked by diacritic marks. When I was teaching ESL, I had on...

I think that the use of churches like this is good. Perhaps people will come into the Church, see the persecution of the True Orthodox, and witness good people getting beaten up in the MP church, and then leave. I witnessed a fight at an ROCOR-MP church where a priest wanted to venerate a myrrh weep...