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The Moscow Patriarchate and the Bolshevik Revolution

Note: There are many different ways of transcribing Russian words and names into the Western alphabet. For example: Alexei may be spelt Alexey, Alexi, Alexii, Alexios, Alexius, Alexy, Alexiy, Akexis, Aleksey, Aleksi. Sergey may be spelt Sergei, Serge, Sergios,...

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CHRISTOPSOMO

Ingredients 15g/1/2 oz fresh yeast OR 2 teaspoons dried yeast 180ml/ 6 fl oz/ 3/4 cup lukewarm milk 450g/ 1-lb / 4 cups white bread flour 2 eggs 75g / 3 oz / 6 tbspn caster sugar 2.5 ml / 1/2 tspn salt 75g / 3oz / 6 tbspn butter, softened grated rind of 1/2 an orange...

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The feast of St Nicholas, Cardiff.

  Father Tim and a small contingent of the Lampeter community were honoured to celebrate vespers and the commencement of the feast of St Nicholas with our friends in Cardiff last night.  Father Luke and others from Llanelli will join them for further celebrations...

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From the lives of Saint Abramius and of his niece St Mary

Icon of SS Abramius and Mary, with St Anastasia the Roman, third century martyr also celebrated on 29th October. My poem is a rather free improvisation on the story. In the Life by St Dmitri of Rostov (it can be consulted here), Mary flees out of an awareness of...

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Bewnans Ke: A Cornish Play on the LIfe of St Ke and Arthur

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/196852 Wed 6 Dec 2017, 1:15PM To coincide with the 2017 Year of Legends and our current Arthur and Welsh Mythology  exhibition, a presentation about a Medieval Cornish manuscript. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library...

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Day long seminar on Orthodoxy

There will be a day long seminar on 'The (Greek, Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Rumanian ...) Orthodox Church - History - iconography - music Introduced by Dr Peter Brooke on Wednesday 4th October 2017 at Coleg Trefeca (centre of the eighteenth century Welsh Methodist...

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A visit from Fr John

The Church in Lampeter very much enjoyed a visit from Fr John & his flock Hopefully more photos to follow https://www.orthodoxwalsall.org.uk

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2017: Start of the New School Year

Our dearly beloved in the Lord,   On the auspicious and sacred occasion of the beginning of the new school year 2017-18, I am sending you all warm greetings to everyone working for the education of our children: the Parents, the Pupils, the Teachers, men and...

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New item in Orthodox Arts Journal

I have a new article published in the Orthodox Arts Journal  - From Cubism to the Romanesque (to the Orthodox icon?). It follows on from my previous piece about the attempt of Charlemagne and his court to attack the Seventh Ecumenical Council and the veneration of...

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