ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE

Exarchate of Parishes of Russian
Tradition in Western Europe

See also: Journeys into Orthodoxy

'For the Life of the World' - Conference 2008:

• Report on the conference
• Greeting by Archbishop Gabriel at the start of the Conference
• 'The Liturgy after the Liturgy' - talk by Irina von Schlippe
• 'Trusting in God and Working with Each Other' - talk by Wendy Robinson
• Sermon preached by Archbishop Gabriel
• Sermon preached by Bishop Basil

'Behold, I Make All Things New': Episcopal Vicariate Conference, Reigate, 2007

• 'Freedom of the spirit in the Church is sacred' by Archpriest Alexis Struve
• Greeting by Archbishop Gabriel of Comana
• 'The Church of the Holy Spirit': Bishop Basil of Amphipolis (PDF - printable - version)
• 'Living with the Spirit in a Time of Change' by Wendy Robinson
• Renewal in the Church: In fidelity to Tradition and the Holy Spirit by Metropolitan Georges Khodre
• 'Freedom, Power and Authority' by Karin Greenhead
• Sermon preached by Bishop Basil at the Pentecostal Liturgy
• Sermon preached by Bishop Basil at the Moleben

Finding our Freedom in Christ: Episcopal Vicariate Conference, London, 2006

Interviews, Talks, Articles

Our ‘Post-ecclesiological’ Age: Archimandrite Grigorios (Papathomas)
Archimandrite Grigorios Papathomas is Professor of Canon Law and Dean of the St Sergius Theological Institute in Paris. In this article, first published by the Orthodox Church of Estonia, he argues that we live in a post-ecclesiological age due to our loss of sense of the local church belonging in a particular place. He also analyses the ways in which overlapping ’co-territorial’ Churches define themselves by use of particular rites (Catholic), by confession (Protestant), or, in the case of the Orthodox, by ethnic origin.

1 September: beginning of the Church Year and Day of Prayer for the Environment

First Anniversary of the Episcopal Vicariate

Report in The Tablet on Bishop Basil's release by Moscow, April 2007

Recent actions taken by the Moscow Patriarchate over property in France and elsewhere

The Church in the Third Millennium - interview with Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

'How to Build the Local Church' : Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia

Interview with Protodeacon PETER SCORER, of the parish of St Elias in Devon (Great Britain): ‘The closure of the diocese of Sourozh cannot be excluded’.

Irina von Schlippe: The Crisis of Exile

Professor Alexei Svetozarsky: The 1917-18 Council of the Russian Orthodox Church

See also:

Exarchate of Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe - Ecumenical Patriarchate

Reports from around the Episcopal Vicariate

News archive: Episcopal Vicariate of Great Britain and Ireland

Letters written by Bishop Basil and His Holiness Patriarch Alexis of Moscow and all Russia, April-May 2006, plus background information

Press releases

Statutes of the Episcopal Vicariate and of the Archdiocese