HOUSE-CLEANING AT THE START OF THIS GREAT LENT: GOODBY! Psychopathic-“MD”, Female Witch-doctor, Doctor Joanna Higginbotham: About the sole thing that our pathetic semi-senile US President Joe Biden is doing right is to militarily support invaded and being daily bombed Ukraine… because wiser people are telling him to do that. But, YOUR CHILDISH & MORONIC MINDLESS/IMMORAL/UNCHRISTIAN defending and parroting on your (remnantrocor.blogspot.com) via your posting of such video anti-Ukraine articles, of PRO war-mongering Hitler-like dictator Putin’s anti-Ukraine SLANDEROUS UNTRUE propaganda lies, is THE FINAL & TOTAL END of our many long-yeared past.. often stormy… internet-posting relationship. War separates people.. as this one has done that between you and I… though actually it is your arrogant personality.. your enormous PRIDE! which separates us, not the war itself. You are either a knowing-perhaps paid by the Kremlin? (DO they send you money?) Internet/Putin-Propagandist, Or anyway, a moronic unintelligent … PSYCHOPATHIC — (your favorite word, that you use to label anyone whom you do not agree with or understand).. unbalanced person who KNOWS very little about many subjects, yet who projects yourself as an expert in ALL fields, on the internet. I have asked God to finally put a solid wall of protection between sick yourself and me — you are not a sister-in-Christ nor a fellow loyal American, nor a rational or good human being. And you are simply a traitor to MY ROCOR.. and also to MY America.. in which nation you should not be allowed to live in… as you are nothing but a pathetic FIFTH-COLUMNIST mouthpiece for our international main enemy-Putin and his still-Communist Enslaved Russia. I will try to find..perhaps I already have found this helper, to help me create my own blog, so I will no longer send you anything to post. GLORY TO UKRAINE! And GLORY TO A FREE DEMOCRATIC RUSSIA! — one without Vlad Putin, & DOWN WITH MASS MURDERER PUTIN & his entire very very evil godless government!.. which YOU unbelievably….. defend! — so don’t send me anymore/NONE! of your goofy emails, as I will erase them…. they are illogical , IN PRELEST/SPIRITUAL DELUSIONAL psychopathic/YOUR FAVORITE WORD, NOT MINE, mentally unbalanced tales told by an idiot. You, arrogant, Know-it-all, Joanna Higginbotham, are a very mentally & spiritually unbalanced and deranged person… apparently for all of your life, from your own words to me, and from a number of those you have hurt by your off-based “spiritual advice”. Please go join the nearby to you, OCA/MP or the ROCOR/MP, as you do not belong in my Ukrainian based ROCOR jurisdiction.. under Vladyka Metropolitan Agafangel who lives in a nation which YOU are tying to aid in Putin’s destroying it and KILLING OFF all of its people, — including OUR UKRAINIAN church clergy and laity, by posting on your blog more and more vicious and false-UNTRUE KREMLIN SCRIPTED MORONIC & SLANDEROUS propaganda attacks on heroic War-Leader President Zelensky and on the MUCH-suffering Ukrainian people. SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! On You. May you repent of this before you die. Yes, post this! After my many painful years trying to work with you, but suffering under your “minder’ domination, and ignoring your bizarre mind, & your habit of turning one priest against another, & interfering in our ROCOR parishes here in America, etc., now it is ENOUGH! P.S. Why don’t you just move to Putin’s Russia?— that is where you belong. After enduring many years struggling to work with you..because you and I SEEMED to be on the same side,-but OH! Was I dead wrong!, I now must bow to the stark reality, that you now are showing/proving OPENLY that YOU ARE MY DIAMETRIC ENEMY & an Enemy of True Orthodoxy, and that you are working for the enemies of my anti-communist ROCOR and its people. Once your friend and co-worker, but now a finally fully awakened realist, who cannot tolerate calling anyone a friend or a fellow-Orthodox, who defends and supports Vlad Putin, & thus de facto, KGB-MP “Patriarch” Kyrill- who blesses all of the murdering Putin commands, — Putin who is a forerunner of Anti-Christ… as you are doing boldly & shamelessly now openly on your blog, including the blog still in my name, but under your total-dictatorial control and “minder” censorship. Before you die, Know-It-All, Psychopathic MD, Madam Joanna Higginbotham, may you repent before God, and be ready for the next world. By your open internet support — CONDONING of his crimes against humanity… for Putin, & your attacking those who he is unjustly attacking, you are thus co-guilty of all of his atrocities. SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! On you!. Daniel Everiss
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Sunday, February 26, 2023
Friday, February 24, 2023
"Reflections Over The Ruined City"
X1: English/Russian: Metropolitan Agafangel:"Reflections Over The Ruined City" — about the present divided sad situation of the various anti-MP Fragments from the old free & canonical ROCOR & from The Catacomb Church heritage
Time: Tue, 21 Feb 2023
(In English + Russian link): Metropolitan Agafangel: “Reflections Over The Ruined City”
Link to Russian language original text:
http://internetsobor.org/index.php/stati/avtorskaya-kolonka/mitropolit-agafangel-razmyshleniya-nad-razrushennym-gorodom
Metropolitan Agafangel: “Reflections Over The Ruined City”
Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Publication date:February 20, 2023. Category: Author's column .
“When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth”? (Luke 18.8)
We somehow imperceptibly came to a catastrophe of faith. All of a sudden, there were no real spiritual people, and indeed there is no longer the visible Church of Christ, everything crumbled, mixed up and turned into a homogeneous mass of dubious "religious organizations," not even "jurisdictions" anymore — on a global scale, we really entered the apocalyptic time, when "the woman [Church of Christ] fled into the wilderness" (Rev. 12.6). "Big churches" denied the mission of Christ on earth, merged with political structures and turned into their spiritually dead appendages, while small church communities finally degraded into numerous dying sects. That's where the world has come to today.
The very possibility of talking about modern world Local Churches has already disappeared, since it is obvious that they have finally lost their inner freedom and have become part of large global centers that claim to some extent the role of world government, which use these churches as dead pieces on a chessboard. The heads of these "churches" no longer live by Christ's commandments and are not going to live according to them, despite the fact that, having absorbed practically all existing heresies and vices, like the ancient Pharisees, they only occasionally remember the Testaments of Christ in words. Their temples have turned into the likeness of museums, divine services have become a staging of sacred rites that were once performed in them, completely devoid of the inner saving grace of Christ. And that's at best.
Final degradation of the CPI
Degraded not only "official churches," but also "alternative." In the USSR, the TOC — catacombs — lived in special conditions of persecution in a totalitarian state. It often happened that a priest who found himself in complete isolation bequeathed to his flock not to join anyone else (because of the danger of joining a sect or MP), not to pray with anyone, and not to commune anywhere else. This is understandable — it is better to partake of the True Body and Blood of Christ, even if many years ago, and die with it, than to taste the "food of demons" to your death.
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Sects, like graceless gatherings, exist in huge numbers (this is something that many people need to start at least thinking about — some now have reached the point that they no longer believe in it). They even existed in the USSR among the catacombs — in the form of outright self-consecrates and the so-called "self-theists" (name-worshippers who deny church government and church hierarchy). Now numerous heterogeneous groups who call themselves Christians fill not only the post-Soviet space, but the whole earth.
But, it is precisely among this motley diverse gathering, as we believe, that the true Church of Christ is also located — the Wife who fled into the wilderness, who will remain until the day of the Last Judgment.
How to distinguish a sect from the true Church?
The main heresy that makes a sect a sect is a false attitude to the dogma of the One (one) Church of Christ, and as a direct consequence, self-isolation and extinction.
The attitude of sectarians to the dogma of the Unity of the Church is twofold: the first lie is disbelief in one Church, and the belief that there are now many of them ("the church ship has crashed, and everyone is escaping on chips from this ship" — ROAC primate Theodore (Gineevsky); another lie is the appropriation exclusively for oneself of the title of the entire fullness of the Church (the rite-worshipper "besides our sense there is no more Orthodoxy in the world" -— ROCOR(V) Primate Vladimir (Tselishchev). There is also a third variant of visible sectarianism — on the instructions of the KGB-FSB, to organize schisms in the Church and bring their "fragments" to extinction (groups led by agents of the KGB-FSB, like Walter-Nazarov in Moscow, or Yuri Lukin in the USA). But this is not even sectarianism, this is Satanism, a direct struggle with Christ and His Church.
RTOC, ROAC, ROCOR(V), as well as all sects that broke away from them
One can join the Church, but one cannot detach oneself without becoming a schismatic or sectarian. At one time, a part of the Catacomb Church, not having its own administration and bishops, when a favorable time for this opened, joined the ROCOR in the person of Hieromonk Lazar (Zhurbenko), — this is good (though, refusing to communicate, at the insistence of the same Hieromonk Lazar, to everyone other directions of the catacombs). But its subsequent separation from ROCOR in the form of the RTOC was already a schism, and for this fact alone, the RTOC are schismatics. The same can be said about people from the MP represented by Archimandrite Valentin (Rusantsov) — their separation from the Church in the form of the ROAC cannot be defined otherwise than as a schism. Hopes that this would not last long, as it was allegedly forced by circumstances, did not come true. Broke off and withered, unfortunately, according to the word of Christ.
So the ROAC and RTOC started out as obvious schismatics. Archbishop Lazar, having lived in the catacombs for many years, mastered the ecclesiology of the catacombs — there is no Church without a bishop, and, unfortunately, a false conclusion from this formula — where the bishop is, there is the Church. He often repeated this and firmly believed that where he is, there is the Church. For him, the main thing was — the correct episcopal consecration — in the catacombs, under conditions of totalitarian persecution, this was traditionally considered sufficient. In the catacombs — yes, but when the persecution is weakened — no, here paragraph 2 of Decree No. 362 of Patriarch Tikhon comes into force:
"2) In the event that a diocese (…) finds itself out of any communion with the Supreme Church Administration or the Supreme Church Administration itself (…) ceases its activities, the diocesan Bishop immediately enters into communication with the Bishops of neighboring dioceses with a view to organizing the highest instance of church authority for several dioceses in the same conditions".
In all the catacombs in the USSR in the 1980s, one bishop could not be found, let alone "neighboring bishops." But when ROCOR and its legitimate bishops became open and accessible, violation of the 2nd paragraph of Decree No. 362 becomes a canonical crime, and violators of this rule put themselves outside the Church, as indicated by the 9th paragraph of this Decree, with them without fail "church communion is interrupted, "as with disobedient ones. That is, bishops who do not want to enter into communion with other canonical bishops, according to this rule, are schismatics and are outside the Church without hope both for their own salvation and the salvation of all who are with such lawbreakers in communication.
The same can be said not only about the ROAC and RTOC, but also about those who broke away from them, as well as about all those who refuse to comply with paragraphs 2 and 9 of Decree No. 362 - ROCOR (V) and everyone who separated from them. There can be no doubt that these divided groups, unwilling to establish communion with each other, have degenerated into sects from schismatics to this day. Among their representatives there are no noticeable leaders — they are not cold and not hot, not smart and not stupid — ordinary people, there are no outstanding theologians, missionaries or ascetics of piety among them. They have become irresponsible and their conscience is silent, because what is written here, they do not understand in their hearts. But from those of their ranks who understand, there will be no less severe demand from them on the Day of Judgment than from the schismatic leaders themselves.
The difference between a sect and the Church is that a sect is closed to external Christians, whom Christ acquired with His Blood, and by closing itself off from them, it blocks its path to the Kingdom of God. Because we have a fundamentally different faith with the sectarians. They believe that it is possible to withdraw and be saved in isolation, while we believe that we will be saved only in the One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
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Metropolitan Anthony in his article, "The Moral Idea of the Church's Dogma," calls grace the very life of the Church, which is "the life of Christ, which He gave to the Church and which He infuses into the soul of every individual." The Church, as he writes, through this grace is called to unite disparate personalities into a single human nature renewed by Christ. Proceeding from such a definition of grace, it follows that there is no saving grace among the schisms of ROCOR, since between them there is absolutely no “centripetal” movement towards Christ. They have no peace and no desire for unity and, therefore, they do not represent the Christian community in their totality, as some think.
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In the history of a sect, there must be a moment of its separation from the Church (if it was once in It, and not self-formed), a moment of cessation of Eucharistic communion with the Church (since the Church is one in Eucharistic communion). Each sect is distinguished by belief in self-sufficiency, and the main features of a sect are: a special dogma that "justifies" its separation from the Church (first of all, a false understanding of the dogma about the Church, but other things can be added), and the complete absence of even an internal need for reunion with fullness Church (that is, in fact, with the Church).
The references of the sectarians to the fact that in all administrative disputes the All-Russian Church Council should have the last word is just an excuse to cover up self-isolation, since the Church Council is assembled from among those who are in Eucharistic communion.
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Of course, we believe that we are the Church of Christ, but, unlike a sect, we do not know and do not claim that among the numerous hosts of sectarians there are no other representatives of the true Church, whom we do not know about, but they do not know about us, and therefore we do not get tired of looking for Christians of the same faith with us — just like the catacombs in the USSR were constantly looking for Orthodox people of the same faith. So far, unfortunately, our search has not been successful. It is in the striving for Unity in Christ that one of the main distinguishing features of the true Church lies. If there is no such aspiration, then there is no Christ in the midst of such a closed community.
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Fear not, little flock! for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom (Luke 12:32).
Of course, we do not need to despair about this. Metropolitan Vitaly said that he believes that all those whom God has prepared for salvation are among our parishioners and those with whom we are in communion.
I believe him, the faithful saint of Christ.
+ Metropolitan Agafangel
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Memory Eternal Peter Koltypin
2/21/2023: " MEMORY ETERNAL! PETER KOLTYPIN" -(long but very valuable information on his remarkable & praiseworthy dedicated Orthodox Christian NOBLE life and & on related matters)-
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Reader Daniel Sharing
English/Russian: FAREWELL To A Real Hero Of The Anti-Communist Cause & To Free His Beloved Russia from that curse: A HERO OF MANKIND: PETER NIKOLAEVICH KOLTYPIN has left this world-MEMORY ETERNAL! May He Rest With The Saints!-Our loss, but Heaven's gain. Time: Thu, 16 Feb 2023
AND, also MEMORY ETERNAL to my dear friend, PROFESSOR EUGENE LOVICH MAGEROVSKY , 1934-2009, whom I greatly miss, who worked, for much of his entire life, with his also anti-communist father, till his last breath on this earth, very closely with his old friend, Peter Koltypin, to fight the 2007 betrayal of our old free ROCOR to the Stalin founded in 1943, & still Kremlin controled, false Russian Church, The Uncanonical Communist-front, “Moscow Patriarchate” ..and to help organize our continued CANONICAL ROCOR lead by Our Vladyka Metropolitan Agafangel (Pashkovsky) formerly, before 2007, the ROCOR BISHOP OF UKRAINE ….who was the only sitting bishop… HE ALONE! of Met. Laurus Skurla’s Synod with his other duly consecrated bishops, of the old ROCOR Synod of Bishops, who in 2007, bravely rejected the despicable/big mistaken June of 2007 betrayal APOSTASY to Moscow, & thus Vladyka Agafangel alone, kept alive the CANONICALLY CONTINUED- THE VALID ORTHODOX EPISCOPATE OF THE OLD FREE ROCOR..blessed to exist by holy Patriarch Tihkon (Belavin).…till this very day..The betrayers, the apostates-Met. Laurus Skurla and his fellow bishops, by their apostasy/falling into heresy, i.e. SELLING OUT THEIR CHURCH TO GOD-HATING ATHIESTS, thereby…de facto LEFT! THE UNIVERSAL HOLY ORTHODOX CHURCH, while he alone STAYED SOLIDLY ORTHODOX & TOTALLY CANONICAL….his episcopate valid. It was my extreme pleasure and great honor to for about more than a year & a half, before Professor Eugene Lovich Magerovsky, in 2009, sadly left this world, to daily confer with him by our 2-3 times per day, daily phone conversations, and to do whatever I could to aid his on-going information gathering as to what I knew or learned afield what all was happening, via my computer, and my personal knowledge of various people and events, which he knew nothing of: MAY EUGENE MAGEROVSKY ALSO, with PETER KOLTYPIN, REST WITH THE SAINTS! — VECHNAYA PAMYAT! Both of them, could be best labeled as: “The salt of the earth!”, and “FOR WHOM THIS WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY!”..”THE NOBLES OF THE LAND”…WHO FAUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT…and who thus were attacked and slandered from many sides. P.S. Recently, dictator-genocidal mass butcher of Ukraine, mad Vladimir Putin surprisingly publically boasted that, he in making this 2007 re-union happen, ….. cost HIM! “OVER ONE BILLION DOLLARS!... TO ‘FINANCE’ i.e. PAY OFF FOR/BRIBE? ...THIS RE-UNION, (his personal patriotic project, in his power oriented mind) for it becoming finally a reality in June of 2007..HIS “GLORIOUS RE-UNION OF THE TWO BROKEN PARTS OF THE RUSSIAN CHURCH-And People”, ..”healing” & re-uniting them with the communist murderers of OlD Russia, the winners of the revolution!) the scattered around the world White-Russians in the diaspora with “THEIR Russian Motherland”..i..e. A present day “Russia” still today, not free, & under the depressing Communist-hangover regime of the Kremlin’s repressive dictatorial control. WHAT A “VICTORY”!-? We in the West need to do everything we can, to insure that the Ukrainians win this war against them- that they have every weapon they need, to free themselves, and to free the common oppressed Russian people…and the world, from this monster madman of our day, a second Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin combined, Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin. And we in the West, must support President Zelensky and the Ukrainians, and not listen to nor repeat the Kremlin’s endless slanders against them. AND WE SHOULD NOT POST ANY ANTI-UKRAINE ARTICLES ON THE INTERNET, which echo the Kremlin’s propaganda. SHAME ON THOSE WHO DO THIS!, but think that they are intelligent sincere Orthodox Christians, or genuine American patriots either. Because…. IF!….. the Ukrainians lose this war,..which may indeed yet happen if we do not give them all the weapons they need, WE…in America especially, even Donald Trump, ALL WILL LOSE, AND ANYWAY FACE NUCLEAR WAR WITH PUTIN, or his successors, I say: “BETTER DEAD THAN RED!” if it comes to that. And IF Putin nukes us, and/or..also… Red China or North Korea, or Iran, etc…then they too will get wipped off this earth….What a happy thought for this Great Lent! We…all of humanity… just cannot live forever under the Kremlin’s constant demonic depressing threats to invade or to nuke us, if… we do not submit & bow to them and live AS THEIR SLAVES, in daily perpetual fear…as they continue to struggle, since 1917 onward, to take over the whole world for their anti-democratic, demonic anti-human, ANTI-GOD barbaric communist utopia, their in reality, HELL ON EARTH. “The most materially corrupt” government on earth is …NOT as super rich business man, Donald J. Trump mistakenly & REGRETABLY recently ignorantly blurted out, “Ukraine”…but that of the Kremlin’s, with other communist regimes, and the second one, is OUR!.... VERY LONG! MONEY-CORRUPTED, BLOATED AMERICAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, not the small under constant bombardment nation of the Ukrainians..who are fighting for their lives and for their country: SEND THEM THE FIGHTER JETS THEY NEED!!!!!..and nuclear missels, if Putin continues to threaten his use of them, against them. THAT WILL STOP THIS WAR, NOT GIVING IN TO PUTIN, i.e. insensitive arrogant Trump’s highhanded ill-conceived and non-caring dismissive DISRESPECTFUL “advice to the Ukrainians” ..as might an adult speak to naughty little children!...to : “Just sit down with Putin and make a deal with him!”..i.e. giving him part of all of their country??? (& we already know that Putin wants all of Ukraine..and then other bordering countries also..perhaps even all of Europe..and too, Alaska, etc. )…. WOULD WE IN AMERICA, WANT TO DO MAKE THE SAME “DEAL” WITH AN ENEMY, -GIVING AN ENEMY, PART OR ALL OF OUR AMERICA?..or OUR ALASKA?..so we are not nucked??? GLORY TO UKRAINE! And BLESS THEIR NOBLE & HONORABLE VOLODIMYR ZELENSKY-MAY GOD BLESS HIM! and his ..under enemy fire night and day, faithful dedicated & patriotic & self-less government helpers, & army. Zelensky has already purged his small government of its VERY FEW crooked members, -hangovers from their soviet past,-as all levels of the soviet bureaucracy was and still is VERY MATERIALLY CORRUPT- but have WE Americans done that house-cleaning in our ..many yeared LONG & DEEPLY-CORRUPTED BY BIG MONEY AND BIG WORLDY POWER, Washington DC?..HARDLY!..and in the Kremlin, or in all he lower levels of their endemically communist corrupt government and military in Russia today, who there, even any ONE of those rascals, IS NOT… A BIG CROOK, a KLEPTOCRAT?..while the mass of common rural Russians, & other ethnics, live daily under many levels of on-going depressing poverty and want. Those are Putin’s supply of cannon-fodder, to be sent to Ukraine to kill and be killed, as he values no human life…but his own…which is why, America must make sure Ukraine SOON! wins its war of survival against him..as that victory is for them, and for the common Russians, and FOR US ALL. If anyone near to Putin, really cares about “Russia”, they will find a way, to remove Putin, and thus stop his nuclear threats. .and thus also save Russia…and themselves & their families. God Save us! “Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus, COME QUICKLY!”
Retired Reader Daniel Everiss in Oregon |
In memory of Petr Nikolayevich KOLTYPIN-VALLOVSKY
Автор: Митрополит Агафангел. Дата публикации: 17 февраля 2023. Категория: Авторская колонка.
On February 5, 2023, at the age of 90, Peter Nikolaevich Koltypin-Vallovskoy passed away to the Lord.
Petr Nikolaevich was born on September 27 in the town of Pancevo in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in the family of a hereditary nobleman Nikolai Evgenievich Koltypin. The father of the deceased, graduated from the Nikolaev Cadet Corps, participated in the White Movement as part of the 11th Izyum Hussar Regiment, was awarded the St. George Cross and was promoted to the rank of cornet. After the third wound in 1920, he was evacuated from the Crimea to Gallipoli, from where he arrived through Constantinople to the Kingdom of the Union of Artists, where he served as a bereator at the court of King Alexander I Karageorgievich. For exemplary service results, he was awarded one gold and two silver medals. Graduated from the Belgrade branch of the Foreign Higher Military Scientific Courses of General N.N. Golovin. Being an activist of the military organizations of the Russian Diaspora, as part of the RNSUV combat group of General A.V. Turkula twice crossed to the territory of the USSR to perform special tasks. With the beginning of the 2nd World War, he took an active part in the Russian Liberation Movement, joining the ranks of the Russian Security Corps, then served in the Headquarters of the head of the Reserve of the Cossack troops, General A.G. Shkuro, and in 1945 he was enrolled in the 2nd Infantry Division of the Armed Forces of the KONR under the command of General A.A. Vlasov. At the end of the war, he was captured by the Americans and was able to avoid extradition to the Soviets. After his release, he lived with his family in Munich, where he was an active member of the St. Andrew's Flag Union under the leadership of General P.V. Glazenap. As part of a group of Russian officers, he participated in negotiations with the American military command on the possible creation of Russian volunteer formations in the event of a military clash with the Soviet Union. In 1951 he moved with his family to the United States, where he continued his anti-Soviet activities and worked as an artist and icon painter.
Petr Nikolayevich was brought up by his father as a convinced anti-communist, devoted to the ideals of serving the Russian Imperial House and a faithful son of the Orthodox Church. In his youth, Petr Nikolayevich actively participated in the movement of Russian intelligence scouts and was included in the Russian delegation from the ORUR, representing National Russia at the World Scout Jamboree (rally), which was held in Austria in August 1951 and gathered 18,000 participants.
In the USA, one of the prominent figures of the Russian Monarchist Movement N.K. Globachev, who by that time had headed the cadres of the Russian Imperial Union-Order, attracted a large group of newly arrived youth into the ranks of the Imperials - the most active organization of Russian monarchists, who uncompromisingly fought against international communism and advocated the restoration of the Russian Orthodox Kingdom headed by the legitimate Sovereign from the House of Romanov. Among them was Petr Koltypin, who, with his characteristic energy, joined the activities of the organization. As a responsible task, he was entrusted with the publication of a new printed organ - the magazine "Imperial Banner".
In December 1953, a meeting of Russian monarchists was held in New York, at which the Permanent Conference of Russian monarchist figures was formed as a coordinating body, and Koltypin was also a member of the secretariat.
In March 1958, at the 1st All-Monarchist Congress, held in New York, the All-Russian Monarchist Front was formed in order to coordinate the actions of monarchist organizations. To manage the affairs of the Front, an Executive Bureau was elected, later renamed the Guiding Center, in which Petr Nikolayevich was invariably elected.
Petr Nikolayevich was an organizer and active participant in many bright political actions that had a wide resonance outside the Russian diaspora. We will note only some of them.
When Khrushchev visited the United States in September 1959, the Imperials hired a ship, on board of which a huge banner was unfurled with an inscription in Russian - "Out, bastard Khrushchev." The ship came very close to the ship on which Khrushchev arrived in New York, and he, seeing with what kind of greeting he was greeted, immediately left the deck. Several tens of thousands of leaflets were also printed in English, which denounced the Soviet leader as a criminal and executioner responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, both in Russia and abroad. With the help of proxies among the staff of the fashionable Walford Astoria hotel, printed anti-Soviet leaflets were planted in all the rooms where Khrushchev and his entourage were accommodated, which caused considerable commotion.
On November 7, 1967, on the 50th anniversary of the October Bolshevik coup, in New York, during a meeting of the UN General Assembly, a group of 12 Imperials led by Koltypin unfurled a huge banner on the balcony with the inscription - “Freedom of Russia! Down with Soviet slavery! This unprecedented action attracted much attention in the American press, and the New York Daily News, with a circulation of more than half a million copies, devoted a front page to the event. Among the important tasks, Koltypin considered it necessary to convey to the free world that Russia is the first victim of international communism, and not an aggressor. To this end, numerous conferences were held with the participation of the American public, various articles and announcements were placed in the American press, emphasizing that "the USSR is not Russia!" Koltypin also actively participated in American political life. So, in 1964, he joined the election campaign of the US Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, Senator from Arizona, known for his sharply anti-communist views. In 1972, Peter Nikolayevich himself, the first American of Russian origin, ran for the House of Representatives from the state of Connecticut. And although victory was not achieved, important political experience was gained. In March 1968, Koltypin led a delegation of associates of the Imperial Union who arrived from the USA to Spain and, accompanying Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich, laid a wreath at the memorial in the Valley of the Fallen.
On September 22, 1976, a fateful event took place in Madrid - the marriage of Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna and Prussian Prince Franz Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who, after converting to Orthodoxy, received the title of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich from the Head of the Russian Imperial House. The wedding ceremony, which took place in the Greek Church of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called and the Great Martyr Dmitry of Thessalonica, was attended by the Heads of European dynasties, August persons and a large number of representatives of aristocratic families. First of all, it should be noted the ruling Spanish Monarch - King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia. Among the guests were also the Bulgarian Tsar Simeon II, the King of Italy Umberto II, the Albanian King Leka I. A large delegation of associates of the Russian Imperial Union-Order headed by P.N. Koltypin. The delegation included in advance Archbishop Nikon (Rklitsky) of Washington and Florida, who died unexpectedly three weeks before the celebration. Therefore, instead of the late Vladyka, the sacrament of the wedding was performed by Archbishop of Los Angeles and Southern California Anthony (Sinkevich).
On March 6, 1982, Petr Nikolayevich took part in the opening ceremony in London of a monument to the victims of the Yalta Agreement, by virtue of which, as a result of the criminal actions of the heads of government of England and the United States, millions of defenseless refugees who tried to escape from the communist regime were handed over to the Soviets for reprisal. A monument by sculptor Angella Connor, approved by the personal order of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, despite the protests of the British Foreign Office and the Soviet Embassy, was installed in Thurlow Square, opposite the Victoria and Albert Museum. The opening of the memorial took place with a large gathering of people, among the visitors there were many members of the English Parliament from the Conservative Party, the mayor of London, former Prime Minister of England Harold Wilson, prominent political and public figures, representatives of the Yugoslav, Latvian and Estonian organizations in London. Among the numerous Russian anti-communists were Bishop Constantine of Richmond and Britain, the administrator of the Diocese of the Russian Church Abroad, F.M. Yakimov - from the Corps of the Imperial Army and Navy, I.I. Bilibin - Head of the Camping Office of the Head of the Russian Imperial House and P.N. Koltypin - from the Russian Imperial Union-Order, whose address, printed in English, aroused great interest among the British politicians present.
In 1983, on the initiative of P.N. Koltypin, the Russian Imperial Union, the Canadian Monarchist League and the Society of Saint Constantine Equal to the Apostles (American Monarchist Society) organized an international monarchist forum, which was held in the format of a Conference at the University of New Hampshire from July 15 to 17. At the Conference, which brought together about one and a half hundred participants, in addition to Russian monarchists, there were supporters of monarchical rule of various nationalities, including Hawaiians and Persians. Greetings to this International Monarchist Congress were sent by the Head of the House of Romanov, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich, Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, King Baudouin I of Belgium and his father King Leopold III, King Juan Carlos I of Spain, King Hussein of Jordan, Prince Rainier III of Monaco, Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, King Simeon II of Bulgaria, King Mihai I of Romania, Head of the House of Habsburg Crown Prince Otto von Habsburg, Head of the Yugoslav Royal House Crown Prince Alexander II Karageorgievich, Maharaja of the Principality of Baroda Fatehsingrao Gaekwad II and Maharaja of the Principality of Dhrangadhra Megraji III. P.N. Koltypin also announced greetings to the participants of the Conference from the embassies of a number of monarchical states of Europe and Asia and monarchist organizations. The conference attracted a lot of attention from the media - radio stations, newspapers and magazines. Suffice it to say that in three days P.N. Koltypin gave nineteen interviews.
In 1988, the millennium of the Baptism of Russia was celebrated on a large scale in the Russian Diaspora. The main celebrations were held in the city of Jackson, New Jersey, on Vladimirskaya Gorka - in the presence of the Head of the Russian Imperial House H.I.V. Sovereign Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich and the August Family, First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad Metropolitan Vitaly and members of the Synod of Bishops. The celebrations began on July 26 with the consecration of the memorial church of St. Vladimir in Jackson and attracted a huge number of people from all over the Russian diaspora. On July 29, a solemn banquet was held in honor of the namesake of Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich and at the same time in honor of the millennium of the Baptism of Rus', the 375th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty and the 50th anniversary of the Grand Duke's leadership of the Dynasty. The banquet, as well as the visit of the Grand Duke Family to the USA, was organized by the Russian Imperial Union-Order under the leadership of P.N. Koltypin. The banquet was attended by the August Family, the First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad and members of the Synod of Bishops, Prince Boris of Leiningensky with his wife, representatives of military and public organizations of the Russian Emigration and more than 300 guests.
In 1989, Petr Nikolayevich headed the Russian Foreign Expert Commission to investigate the fate of the remains of members of the Russian Imperial House, killed by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg on July 17, 1918, which played an important role in studying this issue and hindered attempts to falsify evidence by the Russian investigating authorities.
In September 1991, P.N. Koltypin visited Russia for the first time to intensify the propaganda of the Monarchist ideology and coordinate the activities of the Imperial groups and departments, which by that time were already openly operating on the territory of the USSR. This was, without exaggeration, a significant event: the head of the organization of Russian monarchists, who advocated the restoration of Tsarist power and openly proclaimed international communism as their main and implacable enemy, arrived in their historical homeland, where the Soviet political regime had not yet been completely abolished. Koltypin gave one of the interviews right on Red Square, which was broadcast on central television.
The next visit to Russia, associated with a mournful event, took place in May 1992 - on the fortieth day of the death of Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich, whom Koltypin served faithfully for 40 years! Peter Nikolayevich took part in a memorial service at the Grand Duke's Tomb of the Peter and Paul Cathedral, after which he held a meeting with the Imperials of St. Petersburg. After returning to the United States, in hot pursuit, Koltypin, together with colleague Konstantin Derosier, prepared the publication of the mourning collection "Eternal Memory of His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich," in which the last days of the life of the Grand Duke and the mourning events associated with His burial.
The last time Koltypin flew to Russia in 1995 as part of a delegation of the Foreign Expert Commission - together with Prince. A.P. Shcherbatov and E.L. Magerovsky - at the invitation of the Government of the Russian Federation. On September 20, they made presentations in Moscow at the Government House at a meeting of the state commission established to study issues related to the study and reburial of the remains of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II and members of His Family. However, despite the rather cordial reception of foreign guests, fruitful cooperation between the two commissions did not work out, and both sides remained in their positions.
Pyotr Nikolaevich Koltypin was engaged in versatile patriotic activities in the broadest sense of the word, but he saw his main duty in serving the Russian Imperial House and personally to Sovereign Vladimir Kirillovich. His uncompromising and sacrificial service was marked by a sign with the monogram image of the Grand Duke of the 1st degree and the Imperial Order of St. Michael the Archangel.
In 2002, on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the October Revolution, at the initiative of P.N. Koltypin, an Appeal to all Russian people was prepared, signed by 15 representatives of the Russian Diaspora. The text of the Appeal was printed in Russia in the amount of 10,000 leaflets, which were distributed in St. Petersburg.
In 2011, on the eve of the 400th anniversary of the calling of the Romanov Dynasty to the Kingdom, Koltypin, among the initiative group, signed a Memorandum to collect signatures in support of giving official status to the Russian Imperial House.
In 2019, through the efforts of Pyotr Nikolayevich, the collection “Imperial Russia – Aid to the USA and the World” was published in the United States in English, which was conceived for the 400th anniversary of the calling of the Romanov Dynasty to the Russian Throne. The main purpose of the collection was to overcome the often distorted view of the foreign policy of Imperial Russia, which is presented by ill-wishers in an aggressive and militant manner. The collection included historical studies by 14 authors devoted to the positive influence of the Russian Empire on world history during the reign of the Dynasty from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century inclusive, who completely coped with the task.
P.N. Koltypin worked as an aeronautical engineer for 35 years and held senior positions in the company of the famous aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky Avco Lycoming, which specialized in the production of gas turbine and piston engines for the military industry. He lived in a happy marriage with Anna Vasilievna, nee Potemkina, in which four children were born - two sons and two daughters.
Pyotr Nikolaevich was a representative of the last generation of Russian people who, through their parents, had a direct, uninterrupted close connection with pre-revolutionary Imperial Russia, its customs, society and culture.
Koltypin had no illusions about the ruling regime in the Russian Federation and always emphasized its fundamental difference from the historical National Russia. As a parishioner of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, he was a categorical opponent of unification with the Moscow Patriarchate, seeing in it a pseudo-church structure and an obedient instrument of the Communist regime and its current successors. Peter Nikolaevich actively participated in the church life of the Russian Diaspora. He was a participant in the 3rd, 4th and 5th All-Diaspora Councils. Koltypin was a member of the board of the Society of Zealots for the Memory of His Beatitude Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky), which was founded in 2004 to preserve the purity of the foundations of the Russian Church Abroad and oppose the course towards unification with the Moscow Patriarchate.
As a participant in the Fifth All-Diaspora Council, which took place in 2008, he made a significant contribution to the self-organization of that part of the clergy and laity who declared their rejection of the Act of Canonical Communion between the Russian Church Abroad and the Moscow Patriarchate, signed in May 2007, regarding it as an act of no canonical.
The long-term editor of the Russian monarchist newspaper Our Country, Nikolai Kazantsev, characterizing Koltypin on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, noted: “He set his sights on difficult tasks - and achieved his goal. An easy-going, sincere and cheerful person, how much open and generous feeling he has! It is enough to exchange two or three phrases with him on the phone to feel the reliability of his friendly shoulder. Dear Petr Nikolaevich! Let me thank You for everything that you have done and are doing for Historical Russia and the Russian white emigration... It becomes calmer and easier for me when I remember that You are in our trenches. I'm proud to have worked with you for decades." These words very accurately formulate what could be repeated by anyone who had the honor of knowing the deceased and was associated with him in the struggle for a common cause. As a friend and colleague of the late Alexander von Pinozi, who lives in Rome, said, “He was a guide for us!”
Throughout his life until the last day, Peter Nikolaevich steadily followed the slogan of the Imperials - Only what you do yourself will be done! and Only the dead have the right to rest! Eternal memory to the ardent Russian patriot, and may his soul rest in the villages of the righteous!
Sergey A. Khazanov-Pashkovsky
February 11, 2023
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
from Mother Makrina
2/14/2023: A Very Interesting Re-Sharing by a dear elderly Orthodox Christian Nun in her native Australia: Who once was a nun in the old ROCOR, in Jerusalem: Historical ROCOR photos and of St. John of Riga, Archbishop of Riga and Latvia
Time: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:47:59 +0000
From: Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com>
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AND, Greetings With The Feast Of The MEETING OF THE LORD!
From: M. Makrina
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2023 6:21 PM
Subject: Historical ROCOR photos and St John of Riga Archbishop of Riga and Latvia
Beloved in Christ Fathers, Mothers, Brothers and Sisters, bless!
Greetings for the Great Feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple!
This month’s The Shepherd (from England), has, as usual, (see below)
0223 PDF Document · 299 KB
https://www.saintedwardbrotherhood.org/the-shepherd/latestvol
[2023 February issue uploaded here:
https://app.box.com/s/bx5wa17e2g6rnfeimxrsw8k0w4c9zcho
Shepherd Archive folder
https://app.box.com/s/e7bhgxx1bm9e0vc2cdvfwu6tg5nkmq3u?sortColumn=name&sortDirection=ASC
Shared Library:
https://app.box.com/s/fidluwvb48ffrhzly22uq2zvvzb56byl?sortColumn=name&sortDirection=ASC
~jh]
promptly arrived in my inbox, and in reading the opening section “From the Fathers” there was a snippet from the ever memorable St. John, Archbishop of Riga and all Latvia. His hagiographer, Dr Liudmilla Keller (later Sr Joanna of Eleon whom some of us were privileged to know, and who was vehemently against any rapprochement with the MP) prompted me to google Sr Joanna of blessed memory;
along with her hagiography of St John available in Russian and English:
https://sjkp.org/collections/lives-of-saints/products/the-life-and-passion-of-st-john-pommer-of-riga-and-latvia
a site came up from the ROCOR [ROCOR-MP, ~jh] full of interesting historical photos from the 60’s:
Historic Photos of St. Vladimir's Church
eadiocese.org
Glory to God, Sr Joanna reposed shortly before the act of union was signed, and the Abbess of Eleon put out a box of her personal effects in trapeza for us to choose a blessing from the dear reposed Sister. I chose an original photograph of St (Patriarch) Tikhon and an old, battered, broken, tin priest’s pectoral Cross, both bearing the Seraph on them (me being Sr Seraphima at the time).
Sr Joanna told me herself that St John had been her Spiritual Father, and I like to think that maybe the Cross had been a blessing from the Holy Hierarch to her. With a small adaption, it is now a part of my Paramandyas.
Sadly, shortly after her repose, I discovered a huge pile of her personal and archival papers strewn in the lower section of Eleon near Fr Parthenius’ Cave, and I rescued a handful, all, of course, in Russian and beyond my understanding. What a loss to the archives of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad!
May the prayers of the Holy Hierarch John help us to repentance and salvation!
Please pray for the repose of Sr Joanna (Dr Liudmilla Keller)
and for the health and salvation of
Unworthy M. Makrina
Prov. 23:23 † Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
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posted by Joanna Higginbotham: highlights are mine
Schism within ROCANA
2/13/2023: A General Church-News Informational Sharing: by our canonical ROCOR, headed by our Vladyka Metropolitan Agafangel: In English & Russian: "Our Dissenters Have Made Another Schism"
Time: Tue, 14 Feb 2023
Our dissenters have made another schism
Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Publication date:February 13, 2023. Category: Alternative Orthodoxy .
The group of defrocked, but formerly of our ROCOR: bishops: Andronicus, Sophronius and Irenaeus have split-gone into schism — with each other now. Unfortunately, those who consciously embark on the path of a split-schism/raskol, cannot stop.
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02/01/2023 reply to Bishop Irenaeus Dear Bishop Irenaeus, The Canonization Commission has received your email. In it you report about the glorification that took place in the cause of the martyred Br. Joseph, which was performed in our Moscow parish of the Montreal Icon of the Mother of God, by the rector of that temple, Priest Anthony Syroeshkin. Frankly, we were surprised by this news. It is known that Metropolitan Anastassy for a long time refused to give his blessing for the glorification of new saints in the Church Abroad, since he believed that such glorifications could only be accomplished by the future hoped for fullness of the entire Russian Church, and not only by a small part of it, by the Russian Church Abroad alone. But now, the glorification of this new saint is accomplished in one parish! If you knew about this glorification being prepared in the Foreign District, would it not be more correct of you to unite our efforts, instead of doing some strange parish glorification service? But there is another circumstance that prevents us from rejoicing at this news. It turns out that Priest Anthony was under a ban-forbidding him from serving, imposed on him by his ruling Archbishop Sophrony, and yet you accepted him into your diocese without a canonical release letter, from his ruling Archbishop Sophrony. We do not know all the circumstances, and in no way can we be judges in this case, however, the violation of the canons on your part is obvious. You have repeatedly reminded us of the Eucharistic communion bond between us. In this case, your acceptance into your communion with a forbidden & under-ban cleric, and the extension of your diocesan jurisdiction to include this parish which belongs to Vladika Sophrony, are anti-canonical acts that inevitably have lead to this break in communion-raskol between us, until you correct this situation. +Archbishop Andronicus +Bishop Andrey |
Source
https://vishegorod.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1387&Itemid=44
Russian-language original text:
У раскольников очередной раскол
Автор: Митрополит Агафангел. Дата публикации: 13 февраля 2023. Категория: Альтернативное Православие.
Раскололась группа лишённых сана бывших епископов Андроника, Софрония и Иринея. К сожалению, ставшие сознательно на путь раскола, остановиться уже не могут.
01.02.2023 ответ епископу Иринею
Дорогой Владыка Ириней,
Комиссия по Канонизации получила Ваш имейл.
В нем Вы сообщаете о состоявшемся прославлении в лике мучеников Бр. Иосифа, которое было совершено в московском приходе Монреальской Иконы Божией Матери, настоятелем храма иереем Антонием Сыроешкиным.
Признаться, нас удивила эта новость. Известно, что митр. Анастасий в течение долгого времени отказывался дать благословение на прославление святых в Зарубежной Церкви, так как он считал, что прославление могло быть совершено только полнотой всей Русской Церкви, а не ее малой частью. Теперь же прославление нового святого совершается одним приходом!
Если Вы знали о готовящемся в Зарубежном Округе прославлении, не правильнее ли было бы с Вашей стороны объединить наши усилия, вместо того, чтобы совершать какое-то странное приходское прославление?
Но есть и еще одно обстоятельство, которое мешает нам радоваться этой новости. Оказалось, что иерей Антоний находится под запрещением, наложенным на него архиеп. Софронием, а Вы без отпускной грамоты приняли его в свою епархию. Мы не знаем всех обстоятельств, и никак не можем быть судьями в этом деле, однако, нарушение с Вашей стороны канонов очевидно.
Вы неоднократно напоминали о имеющемся между нами евхаристическом общении. В таком случае, принятие Вами в общение запрещенного клирика, распространение Вашей юрисдикции на приход Вл. Софрония – это неканонические деяния, которые неизбежно ведут за собой разрыв общения, до исправления Вами этого положения.
Архиеп. Андроник
Еп. Андрей