From 8/21 to 10/23 November 2018 a meeting of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian True Orthodox Church was conducted.  The RTOC's First Hierarch is Archbishop Tikhon of Omsk, who succeeded Archbishop Lazar (Zhurbenko).  During the Synod meeting, two anathemas were passed, and ordered to be included in the Synodikon of Orthodoxy.  These...

The Fruits of a Schism Last month (October, 2018), the Agafangel Synod deposed two of its bishops (Archbishop Andronik of Canada, and Archbishop Sophroni of St. Petersburg, Russia), and summoned the suspended Abbot Andrei (Erastov) from Australia. Why is this important to the Orthodox Faithful? Because the kaleidoscopic deceit of this synod continues to spin...

Despite the fight over ecclesiastical territorial recognition and control in the Ukraine, and despite attempts by more sincere MP members to steer the breach in communion between the Phanar and Moscow into a more productive dispute over Ecumenism, the Moscow Patriarchate's chief representative under the Patriarch, and its head of the Department of External...

MP spokesman in Jerusalem says that concelebrations and communion may be cut off between MP and JP over Kiev; as it is, communion between the EP and the MP is over and done with: Hegumen Nikon, Secretary of the Russian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, says: "If the Patriarchate of Jerusalem takes the side of the...

NFTU Note:  Earlier this year, before the Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas re-entered communion with its Sister Synod in Greece , an agreement was worked out to solve any lingering questions.  This statement supersedes previous statements.  From the Metropolia website the following was stated: http://orthodoxmetropolia.org/2018/09/09/synodal-chancery-statement-prior-to-visit-to-greece/ As previously mentioned, a...

The claims made by former Aglipayan priests, then baptized laypeople in the Moscow Patriarchate just three years hence, were incredibly serious. What had been presented in the mainstream Orthodox media in the West and Russia as a joyous missionary success was at best a failure of catastrophic proportions or at worst a deliberate attempt...

If Romfea is to be believed, this is already been decided and agreed upon. While remarriage of clergy has been (rarely) allowed in terms of economy, never has the rule of being the “husband of one wife” been overturned. Until now. It is unclear as to the motivations of the change. To read the full...

The news on the break in communion between Moscow and Constantinople is coming in so quickly, that it is probably best to just note what is being said right from official organs at this point: we here at NFTU have never seen anything like this. Don’t ask us: we’re just watching. Read more for...

Over the past year, discussion were held between the Bishops of the Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia and the Churches of Metropolitan Anghelos of Avlona and Metropolitan Seraphim over the question of acceptance of the heresy of Imyaslavie. Satisfied with the reversal of the Greek and Russian positions, communion was restored, with the approval of the...

(Russia Insider) Solzhenitsyn's Damning History of the Jews in Russia - a Review "The Jews accumulated wealth by cooperating with each other. (p. 31)." "They made profits by taking the peasants’ grain to the point of impoverishing them (and causing famine), turning it into brandy, and then encouraging drunkenness. (p. 21, 24)." "Jews forced peasants into lifelong debt...

Proceedings of the RTOC Synod of Bishops Meeting in January 2018 Date of publication on web-site: 16.03.2018 The Synod of Bishops of the Russian True Orthodox Church was held from the 19 January/ 1 February to 21 January/ 3 February 2018, in the city of Dimitrov of Moscow region. The Synod made the following decisions: - To sever...

  Introduction A question that has not seen much public discussion is: "To what extent are the texts we have of the Latin Fathers interpolated in favour of later Filioquist teachings?"  It seems that the standard reply of some Orthodox in recent decades has been to simply concede that what we have is exactly what we...