Rector of Holy Trinity and Saints Cosmas and Damian parish, and director of the St. John the Theologian Institute in Brussels, Belgium. Chief editor of the journal “Le Messager Orthodoxe” (Paris, France).
The following article originally appeared in the French language journal Études: revue de culture contemporaine as the third part of a discussion on tradition and innovation in major Christian communions. The first two parts, a Protestant and a Roman Catholic perspective, are not reproduced here.
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For the great majority of Orthodox Russians who found themselves in exile after the Bolshevik Revolution, but remained committed to the life of the church, the Moscow Council of 1917–18 appeared as a heavenly gift granted to the Church in Russia before a long time of tribulation. And so it surely was. But this council[…..]
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