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"We have concluded that when the principle of racial division (i.e. phyletism) is juxtaposed with the teaching of the Gospel and the constant practice of the Church, it is not only foreign to it, but also completely opposed, to it. We decree the following in the Holy Spirit: 1. We reject and condemn racial division, that is, racial differences, national quarrels and disagreements in the Church of Christ, as being contrary to the teaching of the Gospel and the holy canons of our blessed fathers, on which the holy Church is established and which adorn human society and lead it to Divine piety. 2. In accordance with the holy canons, we proclaim that those who accept such division according to races and who dare to base on it hitherto unheard-of racial assemblies are foreign to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and are real schismatics." Constantinople...1872 * Pray and Work for Orthodox Unity in North America!!! * St. Andrew House announces Agreement to fund Orthodox Unity effort for years to come - see www.orthodoxdetroit.com * Welcome to the St. Andrew House Discussion Forum * Coming Soon - Orthodox Business Directory * Visit our Home Page at www.orthodoxdetroit.com

    210th anniversary of the birth of St. Innocent (Veniaminov) is celebrated in the Baikal region

    Posted by Dean Calvert (dcalvert) on 8/14/2007, 9:32 am

    210th anniversary of the birth of St. Innocent (Veniaminov) is celebrated in the Baikal region

    [SUMMARY: On Sunday, August 12, guests from throughout Russia, as well as a group of scholars and representatives from the USA gathered in the village of Anga, which preserves the house where St. Innocent was born and spent his childhood. A museum is now open; a church will be re-built on the site of the one destroyed during the 1930s, and Bishop Vadim of Irkutsk and Anga proposed that a spiritual-educational center be established in Anga.

    “Bishop Innokenty (born – Ivan Popov-Veniaminov) devoted almost half a century to educating the people of Kamchatka, the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. He baptized tens of thousands, established schools at the temples he built, and where he himself instructed people in the elements of Christian life. He left a major ethnographic legacy about the life and customs of Russian America. From 1868 he was Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna. He died in 1879.”]

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