RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OUTSIDE RUSSIA (ROCOR)
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DIOCESE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
ROCOR CATHEDRAL OF THE DORMITION
57 Harvard Road, London W4 4ED
The Russian Orthodox Church
The Russian Orthodox Church is by far the largest of the Local Orthodox Churches and some 75% of all Orthodox worldwide belong to it. Some 80% of ethnic Russians, Belorussians and Ukrainians identify themlves as Russian Orthodox and reprentatives of some fifty other nationalities in other countries,including reprentatives of the native peoples of the islands, also belong to it. The Church is rapidly expanding and at prent has over29,000parishes,203bishops,810 monasteries and87theological schools in Russia,Ukraine,Belarus and other countries.
The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR)
华为手机怎么隐藏软件Most Russian Orthodox parishes, monasteries and convents outside Russia belong, as one would expect, to the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR). With its roots going back to the venteenth century, when Russian Churches first opened in Western Europe and elwhere, this part of the Russian Church expanded greatly following the revolutionary turmoil in Russia after 1917.
Then, the Church inside Russia came under the most terrible atheist percution the world has ever en. Today ROCOR is led by Metropolitan Hilarion of New York and Eastern America and the ROCOR Synod of Bishops take part in the decision-making of the Church inside Russia,together with His Holiness the Patriarch and the Holy Synod in Moscow. ROCOR enjoys excellent relations not only with the rest of the Russian Orthodox Church,the Serbian Church,the Georgian Church,the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, but also with the other Local Orthodox Churches.
His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of New York and Eastern America
The ROCOR Dioce of Great Britain and Ireland
In the islands the centre of our Dioce is in London. The Diocesan Bishop is the Very Reverend Archbishop Mark, who is pictured beneath.
A list of clergy and other parishes belonging to the ROCOR Dioce of Great Britain and Ireland is given below:
Birkenhead
The Church of St Elisabeth the New Martyr
逃生路线Priest Paul Elliott, 58 Shrewsbury Road, Oxton, Wirral, Meryside
L43 2HY
Tel: 44 (151) 653 77 68
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It should be noted that the Russian Orthodox Church in the islands is also reprented by the Dioce of Sourozh, which is directly under the Patriarchate in Moscow. ROCOR enjoys excellent relations with this sister-dioce and the two dioces work hand in hand. Their website is: www.sourozh.
The History of the London Parish
The London parish is one of our oldest in Western Europe, dating back to the end of the 17th century, when Peter the Great visited England in January 1698. The church established then was called the ‘Greek-Russian Church’. It is no longer possible to find the location of this first church, becau London has grown so much since then. The church was attached to the Russian Embassy and most of the church items were provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
During the nineteenth century, and right up till the 1920s, the Russian church was located at 31, Welbeck Street on a long-term lea. The Russian colony had been small and a hou chapel suited their needs. But during World War I, in connection with the establishment in England of various Russian offices relating to providing military equipment for the Russian Army, the Russian colony in England began to grow. By the end of the war and with the ont of the Revolution, a stream of refug
ees from all over Russia began arriving. The defeat of the White Army, beginning with the Northern Front, meant that this stream became significant. The hou church under the circumstances could not accommodate the mass of worshippers. The lea for the space was coming to an end, and the hou which had been ud as a church was destined for demolition.
The Church of England stepped in and provided the parish with the temporary u of a large, historic church. But the location of the church, in the business district of London, restricted attendance. The u of this church continued until the Church of England provided another church, built by the Duke of Westminster on his own property and given to the people of England. This church was very large, situated in the centre of London, and could easily be adapted to Orthodox needs. It had been dedicated to the Holy Apostle Philip, but became known among Russians as the Dormition Church, as had all earlier Russian churches in London.
In 1927, the unity of the Russian colony in London was rent asunder as a result of the Paris schism of Metropolitan Eulogius and his departure from the unity of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. As a result of disputes resulting from this division, the London parish almost split in half. An agreement was reached on the further u of the church and rvices were celebrated by the groups on alternate weeks. As a result, in 1928, the Russian Orthodox Churc
h Outside Russia assigned the38-year-old Archimandrite Nicholas(Karpov)to London.The fifth volume of The Life of Metropolitan Anthony of Kiev, the First Hierarch of ROCOR, by Archbishop Nikon(Rklitsky,+ 1976),contains the following account of this momentous event:
卡通海豚图片‘Archimandrite Nicholas was at that time 38 years old. He had graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy in 1915 and taught in theological schools in Russia
and preached in a monastery in Oboyan, in the Kursk Dioce in Russia. In Serbia he had rved in Serbian parishes and then taught at Bitol Theological Seminary, where he enjoyed the greatest respect of the staff and student body. He was appointed rector of the London parish, which had been torn apart by church strife. Archimandrite Nicholas managed this difficult task and with his piety won over the sympathies of the parishioners, and reintroduced peace into parish life’.
蛋糕画画Fr Nicholas was ebullient, energetic and gregarious, he always rved with genuine prayerfulness and piety. It is remarkable that, despite his liveliness, upon entering the church,he emed to undergo a transformation.His reading of the Gospel was moving. Unforgettable were his celebration of the Paschal rvice and reading of the Gospel in four languages. The midnight Paschal rvice drew many people, not only Orthodox Christians but Non-Orthodox and others who did not wish to m
iss it and the joyful mood it created. Many English people would ask to have the date and time of the Paschal rvice published in the press in advance.Most of the parishioners remained until the end of Divine Liturgy, when many would partake of the Holy Mysteries. Chartered bus then took the worshippers to various points in London.
‘To Archimandrite Nicholas’, continues the book on Metropolitan Anthony, ‘fell the honour of being the first Orthodox bishop of London since the eleventh century. Taking into consideration the political importance of London,the ecclesiastical troubles among the people of England and the tendency within the Church of England to draw nearer to Orthodoxy,this Russian Orthodox bishop's e was especially important’.
On All Saints Sunday, 30 June 1929, Archimandrite Nicholas was concrated as the first Orthodox Bishop of London since the Schism of 1054. Metropolitan Anthony of blesd memory came from Serbia for the concration, as did Archbishop Seraphim of Western Europe, Archbishop Theophan of Kursk and Oboyan, Bishop Tikhon of Berlin and Germany, Hieromonk Theodosius, the cell-attendant of the First Hierarch, the Mitred Protopriest Vasily Vinogradov from Brusls, Protopriest V. Timofeev from Paris and Hierodeacon Joannicus from Bulgaria. Archbishop Theophan brought with him the Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God. The solemn rvice of the gathered bishops before th
e miracle-working icon, and the relatively rare event - the concration of a bishop - drew a great number of Orthodox faithful, as well as clergymen from the Church of England and others. The large Cathedral was filled to capacity.Reading on the choir was a psalm-reader from Imperial Russia,Foka Feodorovich Volkovsky.Prent was Grand Duchess Knia Aleksandrovna,the sister of the martyred Tsar Nicholas II.甘肃风景
On prenting the episcopal staff to Bishop Nicholas, Metropolitan Anthony said:
‘The instructions are given to you from above on this day of your concration that you must in this life be not only an Orthodox rvant of God, but a rvant of Russia, sharing the highest sympathies with our Russian people, her pious love for the saints, something Protestants do not understand, saying that Russians, by venerating saints, diminish thereby the glory of Christ. For Christ Himlf gave this firm foundation for this, saying, 'And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them' (Jn. 17, 22). Yet being a Christian and a Russian patriot,you are of cour far from that sinful chauvinism committed by all nations who now call themlves Christian, even, alas,
