The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Do we know if Saint Justin of Celije supported the Free Serbs?


Yes, he did, in a long letter: Appeal to the Holy Hierarchical Council/Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Church Concerning the Church Conflict in America and Canada. It was published in Serbian and English in 1975, and I have read it ...

Patriarch Dositheus II in his Confession (Synod of Jerusalem 1672) .... I was surprised by his decree regarding reading scripture.


Around that time, some Roman Catholics and some Protestants took extreme positions on Scripture. Both of these extreme positions contradicted the ancient, historic ...

.... BOSVR .... for those who have some Questions or Inquiries on my Synod. I know a pretty good amount about it and been to Romania and had the chance to talk to multiple Priests this past Summer for the Holy Feast Day of Saint Glicherie with the help of another person who knew 6/10 Englisch. Our ...

Thank you Haralampopoulosjc, Barbara, and Sava for recent contributions.

Balkan Orthodox Christian societies (and civil society more generally) were decimated by totalitarian fascism and totalitarian communism. The Orthodox Churches and Orthodox Christians in the Yugoslav (South-Slav, minus ...

King Peter II of Yugoslavia did support the Free Serbian Orthodox Church until his death and was buried by the Free Serbs in 1970. In his final years, he made some type of statement about future "unity," which may have been over-interpreted by the Patriarchate. Prince Andrej Karageorgevitch and his ...

How would the Patriarchs of Constantinople under Ottoman rule not qualify as "proto-Sergianist"?


These patriarchs of Constantinople may have been pre-Sergianist, but they were not Sergianist, and they especially cannot be used to justify Sergianism. I agree that Ottomanism decimated the loyalty ...