This is the first of what I hope to be a series of essays on the topic of priestly formation. This is a topic that I believe needs some serious study in the Orthodox Church in the 21st century. Recently, a priest in the Antiochian Archdiocese, was convicted of one count of assault and battery on a … [Read more...]
“A Priest Should Know the Works of Great Authors and Poets”
Archbishop Antony of Borispol, Chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, rector of the Kiev theological schools, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Patriarchal Literary Awards, talks about the Patriarchal Literary Awards. —Vladyka, you are a member of the Board of Trustees of the … [Read more...]
The Significance of Apostolic Succession: Part 4
by Metropolitan Sergii (Stragorodsky) Part Four of Four. An understanding of the Ecumenical Church as a conglomerate of heterogenous parts. But this very attractive, broad and most pleasing to all theory cannot be attributed to the Church. The Church of Christ always understood its unity in the … [Read more...]
The Significance of Apostolic Succession: Part 3
by Metropolitan Sergii (Stragorodsky) Part Three of Four. In contrast to the total rejection of any significance of Apostolic succession among the heterodox there are those, primarily among the heterodox who exaggerate this significance to an extreme. An ordination within the Apostolic succession … [Read more...]
The Significance of Apostolic Succession: Part 2
by Metropolitan Sergii (Stragorodsky) Part Two of Four. If the Orthodox Church receives heterodox clerics in their order because it recognizes their priesthood, how can we reconcile the accepted historical fact of changes in treating these groups by the Church, for example Roman Catholics? It … [Read more...]
The Significance of Apostolic Succession: Part 1
by Metropolitan Sergii (Stragorodsky) Yeah, it really is that important. The prestige of our contemporary Church hierarchy, its Divinely established rights and authority, rests on the historical fact of its Apostolic succession. This is the present teaching of the Orthodox Church, and such was its … [Read more...]
The Challenges of the Priesthood in Today’s Russia
Though this article refers to the challenges of the priesthood in Russia, it applies equally in America. The following interview with His Eminence, Archbishop Mark of Yegoryevsk, offers a frank and revealing look at the challenges and temptations faced by clergy in contemporary Russia. While of … [Read more...]
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