Eastern Orthodox Christianity 2.0

Archimandrite Sebastian (Dabovich) (1863-1940) was the first person ordained to the Orthodox priesthood who had been born in what was, at the time of his birth, United States territory, to wit, San Francisco, California, the son of Serbian immigrants.*  He was one of the pioneers in the service of the Moscow Patriarchate to Orthodox immigrants of many ethnic backgrounds in [...]

Yes, the Southern Continent has its first two official permanent(?) Orthodox chapels.  Go here, and scroll down to the word Mundo, about 3/4 of the way down the page, in red in the middle of the page (or text-search it).  The picture on the left is the Patriarchate of Bulgaria’s chapel (the Ohridski in the name of [...]

Memory Eternal to His Eminence, Metropolitan LAURUS, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, who died of the flu at age 80 Sunday morning, the Triumph of Orthodoxy, in New York State.  Information and a statement also from the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) are available through their homepage for now, and later through their [...]

The valuable copy of the Priest’s Service Book that used to be available on the site of Sts. Peter and Paul OCA parish in Meriden, Connecticut, seems fully available via the Wayback Machine.
It’s the Russian-oriented translation (into English) by Archbishop DMITRI of Dallas and the South, including directions (rubrics), prayers, and hymns from very many [...]