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https://www.aoiusa.org A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:45:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/srdja-trifkovic-on-patriarch-aleksy/ https://www.aoiusa.org/srdja-trifkovic-on-patriarch-aleksy/#respond Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:40:09 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1034 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Cultural commentator Srdja Trifkovic writes on Patriarch Akeksy in the latest issue of Chronicles Magazine: Aleksy II, Patriarch of Moscow and head of the Russian Orthodox Church, died of heart failure on December 5, 2008, at the age of 79… Aleksy II came to the throne just as the Soviet state was beginning to disintegrate. […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/srdja-trifkovic-on-patriarch-aleksy/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/alexy-ii-a-transitional-patriarch/ https://www.aoiusa.org/alexy-ii-a-transitional-patriarch/#respond Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:05:42 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=652 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Vladimir Berezansky, Jr., a U.S. lawyer with experience in Russia and former Soviet republics, recalls an interview with Patriarch Alexy II in 1991. Like many Russians at the time, the Patriarch was coping with a “disorienting change” following the fall of the Soviet Empire, Berezansky writes. At the time, he seemed overcome by the changes […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/alexy-ii-a-transitional-patriarch/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/russia-prays-for-its-patriarch/ https://www.aoiusa.org/russia-prays-for-its-patriarch/#respond Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:54:16 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=616 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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The death of Russian Patriarch Aleksy II, the man who guided the world’s largest Orthodox Church during Soviet repression and then into a period of recovery and growth, will occasion a time of deep reflection and prayer for Orthodox Christians the world over. The Zenit News Service has published this touching account of the Patriarch’s […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/russia-prays-for-its-patriarch/feed/ 0