St. Olga of Kwethluk

(1916-1979)

Katherine Kelaidis’ head-scratcher, Xenophobia in the Cloak of Progress: How English Liturgies Hurt the American Orthodox Church, appeared on Public Orthodoxy on March 12. Her readers have registered their overwhelming dissatisfaction over the past nine days by assigning it 1.7 stars out of 5. This is one of the lowest I’ve seen since Public Orthodoxy started including Readers’ rating at the top of each article. Kelaidis’ rating elicits a response as much as the article itself. I write as one who, as both layman and priest, has spent most of my long Orthodox life in parishes that worshipped exclusively or primarily in the English language, but who also has extensive experience attending parishes that worship in Slavonic, Ukrainian, and Greek. Read More

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His Beatitude, Archbishop Anastasios of All Albania

November 4, 1929 ~ January 25, 2025

May his memory be eternal

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Matushka Marie Meyendorff

Memory Eternal ✠ Вѣчная Память

Marie Olga Meyendorff (née Mojaïsky), widow of Protopresbyter John Meyendorff (+1992) fell asleep in the Lord in Bethesda, MD, on Sunday, November 24, 2024, at the age of 95. Born in Paris, she grew up in the large Russian community in France in the period between the two World Wars, Her father, Alexis Mojaïsky, was born in Kiev, fought in the White Army after the Bolshevik Revolution, then completed his education as a chemical engineer in France. Her mother Olga (née Weriguine), was born in Yalta (Crimea) and eventually settled in France after escaping from Communist Russia. She was an avid gardener, poet, and produced countless silk-embroidered icons, including the plaschianitsa (epitaphion) at the Saint Vladimir’s Seminary Chapel. Read More

This is Orthodoxy in Dialogue’s fourth report on ROCOR’s Archbishop Gabriel (Chemodakov) of Montreal.  Only Monarchy Can Save Russia—Restore It! appeared on June 11, 2018; ROCOR Archbishop of Canada Justifies Wholesale Slaughter of Ukraine on March 9, 2022; and ROCOR’s Lunatic Archbishop of Montreal Doubles Down in Support of Ukrainian Massacre, Putin, Gundiaev on July 28, 2022.

On November 19, 2024, Chemodakov gave a 28-minute interview, of all places, on Alex Jones’ InfoWars X channel. Click below and let him speak for himself.

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