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May 1964: A Radical Change in the History of the Russian Church Abroad

Aug 27, 2012

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by

Dcn. Andrei Psarev

in Global Orthodoxy

The 1964 Council of the Bishops of the Russian Church Abroad (ROCOR) marked a new milestone in its history: on May 27, 1964 Metropolitan Anastasii (Gribanovskii) retired. Bishop Anastasii’s episcopal consecration took place in Moscow in 1906. In 1913 he was appointed to devise rites for the glorification of St. Patriarch Germogen, which was presided…