Annick de Souzenelle was a French Orthodox thinker, born in Rennes on November 4, 1922. Raised in the Catholic faith and educated at the Institut Notre-Dame des Champs in Paris, she eventually broadened her spiritual search to include other religious traditions. In 1958, she was received into the Orthodox Church by Father Eugraph Kovalevsky (1905–1970), founder of the Église Catholique Orthodoxe de France (ECOF), which was then under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, with pastoral oversight by Saint John Maximovitch, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco…
