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In Russian churches, the nave is typically separated from the sanctuary by an iconostasis (Russian ikonostas, иконостас), or icon-screen, a wall of icons with double doors in the centre. Russians sometimes speak of an icon as having been "written", because in the Russian language (like Greek, but unlike English) the same word ( pisat ...
From these visits he developed a deep interest in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and, while still a teenager, converted to Orthodoxy and joined the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. He married and attended the Holy Trinity Seminary as a married seminarian. In January 1974, Theodore Jurewicz was ordained priest.
In the late 1990s, Krasovitsky returned to Russia and saw the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile abolished in 2000. He was required to submit to his ruling bishop or appear before a spiritual court. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He continued his activities, however, though they were not considered part of the Russian Orthodox Church .
Former Russian Orthodox priest Father Grigory Michnov-Vaytenko, head of the Russian Apostolic Church — a recognized religious organization founded by other dissident priests such as Father Gleb Yakunin — said that "The [Russian Orthodox] church now works like the commissars did in the Soviet Union. And people of course see it.
Russian Orthodox believers celebrated Trinity Sunday with Russia's most famous icon transferred from a museum to Moscow's main cathedral despite the keepers' vociferous protests. The Trinity icon ...
John of Kronstadt or John Iliytch Sergieff [3] (pre-reform Russian: Іоаннъ Кронштадтскій; post-reform Russian: Иоа́нн Кроншта́дтский; 31 October [O.S. 19 October] 1829 – 2 January 1909 [O.S. 20 December 1908]) was a Russian Orthodox archpriest and a member of the Most Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Standing in an old Orthodox church in Antalya with a Bible in one hand and a candle in the other, the Rev. Ioann Koval led one of his first services in Turkey after Russian Orthodox Church ...
Alexander Dmitrievich Schmemann (Russian: Алекса́ндр Дми́триевич Шме́ман, romanized: Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Shmeman; 13 September 1921 – 13 December 1983) was an influential Orthodox priest, theologian, and author who spent most of his career in the United States.