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This year our Metropolitanate, the Kyivan, once the largest by territory, is celebrating 1020 years from the time of its official baptism. This is a holy day not only for Kyiv but for the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

Єпископ Іларіон (Рудник) — постать у релігійному житті України нова, але навряд чи випадкова. За більш ніж триста років це перший українець (та ще й громадянин нашої країни), якого висвятив у єпископи Константинопольський патріарх.

In the early 1990s I had some interesting discussions with a former dean of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Cathedral in Hamilton, dealing mainly with comparisons of the rituals and services in various national Orthodox Churches.

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“A brother asked Abba Poemen, ‘Some brothers live with me; do you want me to be in charge of them?’ The old man said to him, ‘No, just work first and foremost, and if they want to live like you, they will see to it themselves.’

No term is used—and misused—among the Orthodox people in America more often than the term canonical. One hears endless discussions about the "canonicity" or the "uncanonicity" of this or that bishop, jurisdiction, priest, parish.