The Quarterly Journal of St. Philaret’s Institute

Boris Talantov and the Brotherhood of Vyatka Christians as an Experience of Church Resistance to Khrushchev’s Persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church

The Fruits of Interfaith Communication under the Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod Nicodemus (Rotov)

The Old Believer Issue in the Proceedings of the Pre-Conciliar Presence

Conference “The 1666–1667 Councils and their Consequences for Russian church life”

Monastery in the World. Fr Alexey Mechyov’s Pastoral Methods

Voronezh Community of Archpriest Mitrofan Buchnev

Peter and Paul Brotherhood in Germany: history and mission problems

The attitude of the Russian Church Abroad to non-Orthodox Christianity under Metropolitan Filaret (Voznesensky)

Issues of Family, Religious Marriage and Divorce in the History of the Russian Orthodox Church prior to the 1917–1918 Local Council

Programmes for Reforming the Church: The Evolution of Ideas and Forms, from Ecclesial Renewal to “Renovationism” (1905–1922)

John Fyodorovich Egorov: Orthodoxy and Living in It

Christian vocation and social life: formulation of the problem in the activities of the group of “32” St Petersburg priests

Discussion on Brotherhoods in the Russian Press in 1860s

The Soldiersʼ Revolution of 1917 and Prerequisites of Forming the Mass Society in Russia

From Attempts to Restrain the “parish revolution” – to the Mobilization of Parishioners. Parish Issue in the Russian Orthodox Church in 1917–1918

“How long have the priests been fooling us!” Blasphemy, sacrilege, and violence in Soviet Russia

The Baltic Orthodox Brotherhood and its Role in the Organization of the Pyukhtitsa Women’s Commune

Archival Records on the History of Pre-Revolutionary Diocesan Brotherhoods: the Brotherhood of St Basil, Bishop of Ryazan

Priest Vladimir Vostokov – Member of the White Movement and Founder of the Brotherhood of the Life-Giving Cross

The “Non-Payers” Religious Movement in 1860–1880s: life in a sacral dimension

“Sparks of Humble Martyrdom”: on the History of the 1920–1930s Moscow Church Circles 

Open Letter from Ivan Koloskov to Cheka Inspector Ivan Shpitsberg

Relations between the Church and the Council for the Russian Orthodox Church Affairs in the Tashkent and Central Asian Diocese in 1946–1961

St Philaret of Moscow and the Spiritual Enlightenment of Russia

The Notions of Personhood and Community in the Pastoral Practices of Bishop Makariy (Opotsky)

“The Secret Friends of God”: Some Notes on the International and Ecumenical Aspects of the Activity of Brotherhoods in Pre-Revolutionary Russia

Non contra, sed supra: “Bulletin of the Russian Student Christian Movement” about believers and the Orthodox Church in the USSR in 1949–1965

Russia Abroad and its Ecclesiastical and Historical Significance

The Life and Work of Priestly Martyr Anatoly Sekundov (1897–1937)

The church service of Fr. Edmund A. Walsh SJ in diplomatic affairs in Russia and Mexico (1922–1923, 1929)

Archpriest Nikolay Butkin’s Spiritual Heritage and Ministry

Protopresbyter Vitaly Borovoy’s Church Ministry in the Context of the 1930–1950s Historical Events

Anna Akhmatova’s Funeral within the church life of the 1960s in Leningrad

“You are not asking enough…”: On the church-historical results of I. V. Stalin’s conversation with the three metropolitans on the night of September 5, 1943

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace”: church singing in occupied Pskov (1941–1944)

Nikolay Neplyuyev’s Views in the Context of Neo-Slavophilism in the Second Half of the XIX – the Early XX Century

Mother Maria (Skobtsova) in RSCM: Her Way to Monastic Ministry 

Russian Student Cristian Movement Conferences as а Manifestation of Orthodox Church Sobornost

Participation of N. A. Berdyaev in the activities of the Russian Student Christian Movement (RSCM) in 1923–1935

Nikolay Nikolaevitch Neplyuev’s Idea of Creating a Pan-Russian Brotherhood

The Life Story of Priestly Martyr Anatoly Sekundov

Problems of Exploring the Phenomenon of “Brotherhood” in Contemporary Historical Studies

“This is My Body which is Broken for You”: the Pastoral Ministry of Priestly Martyr Dmitry Klepinin (1904–1943)

1917 in the History of the Petrograd Synodal Printing House

Overseeing the preaching ministry in the Russian Church in the late Synodal period (as exemplified by the Samara Diocese)

Letter to the Deans from the Council of United Parishes of Moscow

Some Aspects of a Church Problem of False Priesthood on the Example of the Situation on the Temporary Occupied North-West Territories of Russia in 1941–1944

Pre-Revolutionary Sobriety Societies and Brotherhoods in Russia. Three Paradoxes

Archimandrite Tavrion (Batozsky): On the Issue of Canonisation

Brotherhood at Parish or Parish at Brotherhood? On the History of the Russian-Estonian Orthodox Brotherhood Named after the Holy Hieromartyr Isidore of Yuriev in Saint Petersburg

The Beginning of “Spiritual Spring” or an Ascent to Calvary? (the 1917 Problems in the Periodical Press of the Department Military Clergy)

Rapprochement of the Russian Church Abroad with the Old Style Movement during Metropolitan Filaret’s (Voznesensky) life

Addressing the Old Believers’ Experience in the Discussion of Church Reforms of Worship at the turn of the XX century

On the Textual History of the Book of Conversations by Archpriest Avvakum

“The affairs of the Church are decided in Council…”: Archbishop Tikhon (Bellavin) and the Orthodox Brotherhoods of North America

On the Grounds of Christian Unity

The Nativity of the Lord Parish Brotherhood in Saint Petersburg (1863–1871)

Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) of Leningrad and Novgorod’s Contribution to the Initiative by the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) to Establish Dialogue with Non-Orthodox Churches

The History of the Curse on the Minim, a Jewish Prayer against Christians

Robespierre and Church: Notes on the Subject

Moral Content of the Right of Shelter and Impunity within Patriarchal Courts in Byzantium

Russian Church Emigration and the 1917–1918 Moscow Local Council: Adopting and Carrying out Its Decisions in the 1920s–1930s

The Orthodox Brotherhoods’ Activities in the Vologda Diocese in the Late XIX – Early XX Century

The Holy Protection Orthodox Brotherhood in Erzhepol, Polotsk and Vitebsk Diocese, in the Early XX Century

The Point of Bifurcation: The Orthodox Church in Soviet Russia at the Historic Turning Point of the 1940s (as Experienced in the Northwestern Regions of the Country)

On Church Governance of Northern Orthodox Parishes in Pskov Region during the German occupation and within the “New Course” 

Rural clergy of the Pskov region in the first post-war years (1945–1948)

Archpriest Livery Voronov: materials for the biography

The issue of defining the “parish” concept as discussed prior to and during the 1917–1918 Local Council

Josephites and Followers of Metropolitan Kirill (Smirnov) Speaking on Sobornost in Church Administration and on the Eucharistic unity of the Russian Church

Contribution of Abbess Ekaterina (Efimovskaya) to the Revival of the Deaconesses Order in Russia

Church-State Relations in the Byzantine Empire According to the Scriptores post Theophanem (IX–X centuries)

Repressions of the Russian Student Christian Movement in Estonia in 1940–1941

Orthodox clergy of the North of Russia between Whites and Reds in 1918–1920

Rostislav Romanovich Lozinsky’s Biography and Doctoral Thesis “Pastor in Parish”

Organization and activities of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society in the context of the church brotherhood movement

Seizure of church treasures in the Russian North in the 1920s

Ss Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood in Ostroh, Founded by A. D. Bludova, as an Example of an Orthodox Brotherhood in Russia in the Second Half of the XIX Century

Educational Activity of the “Christian Commonwealth of Student Youth” in St Petersburg (1903–1916) 

Letters, complaints, appeals of Orthodox believers of the Kama region to the authorities in the period of late socialism 

Religious Persecution of Old Believers as a Factor of the Internal Colonisation of Russia in Populists’ View

Letters of Hegumen Stefan (Svetozarov) 
from Paris to Valaam in 1938–1939. Preparation for publication, foreword T.I.Shevchenko

Ivan Churikov and His Movement of Nondrinkers 

The Alexander Nevsky Brotherhood’s Martyrdom and Profession of Faith (according to archival records of the 1930s)

Spiritual Daughters of St John of Kronstadt as New Martyrs and Confessors

Orthodox priest in the Soviet Belarusian society (1944–1964)

Rural Parish Clergy in the Age of the XIX century “Great Reforms”

The Russian Clergy and Church Aid Fund: European Vector (1935–1948)

Embodying the Idea of Sobornost within the 1917–1918 All-Russian Local Council

Clergy and Laity in Parish Life of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Early XX century (based on “Diocesan Bishops on Church Reform”)

Transformation in Understanding Schisms and in Overcoming Them among Christians of the Latin Tradition

Seeking Sobornost’ at the All-Russian Council of 1917–1918

Theology education reform proposals at the turn of the XX century based on the analysis of “Diocesan Bishops on Church Reform”

Minor Orthodox Brotherhoods in Arkhangelsk Governorate in the Late 1890 s – Mid 1910 s as an Example of Social Ministry of the Church

The Resurrection Brotherhood by the Resurrection Church of Arkhangelsk in 1900–1917: an example of organized parish charity

Ralf Hollinger’s Letter about the 1st Congress of the Russian Student Christian Movement

Orthodox parishes in the XIX century Polish Kingdom (Case study: Radom Governorate)

Church Life in the Displaced Persons Camps in Western Europe from 1945 to 1952

Man in Secular and Church History Studies: Seminar held by the Church History Department of St. Philaret’s Christian Orthodox Institute 

The Second Restoration of the Patriarchate in the Russian Orthodox Church (1943). Materials from a Roundtable Discussion of the Church History Department of St Philaret’s Institute

SFI Publications on Church History