Metropolitan Laurus (Vassily Skurla) was born in 1928 in Ladomirova, Czechoslovakia, to Mikhail Ivanovich and Elena Mikhailovna Skurla. At the age of 5, he began serving on the altar on feast days at ...

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The Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York, has conducted a service for for Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia and First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia ...

2007-05-18 04:00:00 PDT Moscow-- The Russian Orthodox Church formally ended Thursday an 80-year global schism begun when overseas exiles refused to accept the domestic church's subservience to the ...

On the eve of his first official visit to Russia, scheduled to begin on May 14, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Metropolitan Laurus, granted an exclusive interview to ...

Hundreds of solemn-faced mourners stood shoulder to shoulder for hours Friday to pay their last respects to Metropolitan Laurus Skurla at Holy Trinity Monastery. The smell of incense and the sound of ...

Russian Orthodox Christians in Western Massachusetts welcomed the news that a bitter rift in the Russian Orthodox Church that arose out of the flames of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 ended in ...

MOSCOW – A split between the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate and a breakaway church-in-exile that dates back to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution will be formally ended in May next year, church officials ...

Unity is from God; division is from the devil. The tactic of the one who hates mankind is ancient: to rule, divide and conquer. And the root of all divisions lies in our passions: pride, self-love, ...