Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia Archives • Orthodox Life

Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York

Be of Good Cheer; I Have Overcome the World

April 26, 2019

Paschal Epistle of His Eminence HILARION, Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia Most Reverend Brethren Archpastors, Honorable Fathers,... Read More...

Group portrait of the participants of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Buchendorf, June, 2017

ROCOR Synod on the Ecclesial Catastrophe in Ukraine

October 18, 2018

Ecclesiology, Primatial and Synodal Epistles

The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia has no option except, with profound sorrow and yet with full conviction, publicly to register her assent with the decision of the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Moscow.

The Foundation For Our Moral Choice

June 27, 2017

Primatial and Synodal Epistles

Epistle of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia Buchendorf, Germany June 3/16, 2017 We, the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, gathered for a Counc... Read More...

Portrait of Rasputin with Winter Palace in background

The Real Rasputin?: A Look at His Admirers’ Revisionist History

May 4, 2017

Church History

A thorough and sober examination of recent and ongoing attempts to rewrite the history surrounding controversial and enigmatic Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, by the noted historian of the Russian Church, D.P. Anashkin.

Metropolitan Hilarion, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

Walk in Newness of Life: Primatial Epistle on the Bright Feast of Pascha

April 15, 2017

Primatial and Synodal Epistles

2017 Paschal Epistle of His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.

Reigning Icon of the Mother of God appears on day of Nicholas II's abdication

On the Anniversary of the Tragic Revolution in Russia

March 15, 2017

Primatial and Synodal Epistles

Epistle of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia on the 100th Anniversary of the Tragic Revolution in Russia and Beginning of the Godless Persecutions

The Priesthood in Our Time

February 10, 2017

Pastoral Ministry

by V. Rev. Protopresbyter Valery Lukianov. An examination of the three-fold ministry of the priest as teacher, liturgical minister, and shepherd of souls.

Church of the Holy New Martyrs of Russia, Butovskij Poligon

New Glory of the Russian Church: At the Glorification of the New Martyrs and Confessors

February 2, 2017

Primatial and Synodal Epistles

This coming Sunday is the annual celebration of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. We offer to our readers the epistle of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia to a... Read More...