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This is the official website and authoritative voice of the RUSSIAN ORTHODOX AUTONOMOUS CHURCH OF AMERICA (ROAC). No other English language based website (other than the sites linked herein) claiming to speak for His Eminence, Metropolitan Valentine of Suzdal and Vladimir, or any of the individual Hierarchs of the Holy Synod of the RUSSIAN ORTHODOX AUTONOMOUS CHURCH (ROAC), should be considered as genuine or valid.
Vladikas APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION OF THE
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (ROC)
  • A Timeline of the Episcopal History and Apostolic Succession of the Russian Orthodox Church

    • DOCUMENTS OF INTEREST

  • Essay on why the True Orthodox Church is truly Orthodox by Fr. Maximus Marretta (GOC)

  • Essay on the Demise of ROCOR and the issues with Cyrianism by Fr. Steven Allen (GOC)

  • An Open Letter From Vladimir Moss to Fr. Lukianov Concerning the ROCOR-Moscow Patriarchate unia (June, 2008)

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  • A Statement of the ROCOR Bishops Concerning the Moscow Patriarchate (March 2, 2000)

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  • Why the Moscow Patriarchate is not the historical Russian Orthodox Church -- by Fr. Nikita Grigoriev

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  • THE PROBLEM OF CONSERVATIVE NEW CALENDARISM - by Fr. Maximus (Maretta)

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  • Is Orthodoxy a Religion?

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  • March 31, 2007 - (English) (Russian) The threat of illegal confiscation of ROAC Churches has been confirmed by the authors of an authoritative lecture of Freedom Of Conscience in the Russian Federation on March 24th, 2007

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  • A copy (in Russian) of the faxed Letter from Metropolitan Kyrill (Gundyaev) to President Vladimir V. Putin - written Aug 1,2006 (Translation in English)

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    OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS --- ROAC OF AMERICA
  • 2008 Sobor Protocols of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC)

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  • 2006 Ukaz 14: Appointment of His Grace, Bishop ANDREI of Pavlovskoye, to administer the Russian Orthodox (Autonomous) Church of America (ROAC)

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  • 2004 Protocol 49: Concerning the Excommunication of the former Archbishop GREGORY (George Abu Asaly)

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  • 2004 Protocol 48: Concerning the Failure of the Retired Archbishop GREGORY to Attend a Thrice Called Ecclesiastical Court

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  • 2004 Ukaz 130: Concerning the Suspension/Retirement of Archbishop GREGORY of Denver and Colorado for Acts Unbecoming a Christian

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  • 2003 Appeal of Metropolitan VALENTINE to the ROCOR

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  • 2001 Declaration of Metropolitan VALENTINE Concerning the Unjust Treatment and Treacherous Eviction of Metropolitan Vitaly by the Synod of the ROCOR

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  • 2000 Address of the 8th Congress of the Clergy, Monastics, and Laity to all Orthodox Christians

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  • 2000 Protocol 70: Epistle of the Hierarchical Synod of the FROC to the Hierarchical Council of the ROCA

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    HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS OF THE ROAC
  • A Brief History of the ROAC in Russia and Abroad

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  • 2007 Ukaz 10: Concerning Vertograd Staff Members

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  • 2006 Ukaz 31: Concerning Vasily Lourye: The Former Hieromonk Gregory and his status in the ROAC

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  • 2006 International Religious Freedom Report: Excerpts Concerning MP and FSB Attacks on the ROAC

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  • 2004 Declaration of the Exoneration of Metropolitan VALENTINE of all Falsified Charges Against Him

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  • 2002 Exhortation to Clergy, Monastics, Laity of the ROAC, Editors of Web Sites and Internet Pages

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  • 2001 Petition of the ROAC to the Russian Federation, World Institutions, and International Governments

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  • 1999 Anathema Against the Sergianists

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  • 1995 Epistle of the Free Russian Orthodox Church to the Beloved Flock of God

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    HISTORY of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church
  • The History of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church

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  • The Free Russian Orthodox Church: A Short History

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    Суздальский Паломник

    Suzdal Pilgrim ( IN RUSSIAN )

    Суздальские Епархиальные Ведомости (на Русском Языке)

    SUZDAL DIOCESAN BULLETIN ( IN RUSSIAN )


    HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad -- ROCA (or Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia -- ROCOR)

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  • 1995 Last Will and Testament of Archbishop ANTONY

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  • 1994 Letter of Bishop GREGORY to Metropolitan VITALY

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  • 1983 Anathema Against Ecumenism (and the Branch Theory)

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  • 1979 Letter From Metropolitan (now Saint) PHILARET Concerning the MP (Moscow Patriarchate)

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  • 1975 Third Sorrowful Epistle of Metropolitan (now Saint) PHILARET: The Thyateira Confession

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  • 1971 Resolution of the ROCOR Concerning the MP (Moscow Patriarch)

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  • 1971 Second Sorrowful Epistle of Metropolitan (now Saint) PHILARET

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  • 1969 First Sorrowful Epistle of Metropolitan (now Saint) PHILARET

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  • 1965 Protest on the Lifting of the Anathemas of 1054

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  • 1957 Last Will and Testament of Metropolitan ANASTASSY

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  • 1927 Basis on Which Economy May be Used in the Reception of Converts by Metropolitan ANTHONY

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    PERIODICALS SHOWING THE HISTORY OF THE ROCA/ROCOR AND THE FROC/ROAC
  • 1975-1985 Synodal Secretary Bishop GREGORY (Grabbe) of Washington and Florida's Official NEWSLETTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC AND FOREIGN RELATIONS of the Synod of Bishops of the ROCA/ROCOR

    PLEASE NOTE
    These are large PDF (Portable Document Format) files and may take time to open - Please be patient.

    His Grace, The Right Reverend Bishop GRIGORI of Washington and Florida
  • 1988-2005 CHURCH NEWS:
    (Successor publication to the NEWLETTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN RELATIONS, written by Bishop GREGORY's secretary and daughter, Matushka Anastasia Schatiloff --- nee Countess Grabbe) His Grace, The RIght Reverend Bishop GRIGORI of Washington and Florida and his daughter Matushka Anastasia Schatiloff
    • †During this year, the Grabbe family officially left the ROCOR and joined the ROAC of America
    ††This edition of the newslettter was never published due to the repose of Matushka Anastasia
    HIERARCHICAL INTERVIEWS
  • 2006 Interview with Metropolitan VALENTINE of Suzdal and Vladimir

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  • 2005 Interview with Bishop IRINARCH of Tula and Briansk

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  • 2004 Interview of Bishop IRINARCH of Tula and Briansk

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  • 2001 Interview with the First Hierarch of the ROAC, Metropolitan VALENTINE

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  • 1999 Interview of Archbishop THEODORE of Borisovsk and Sanino

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    His Grace, The RIght Reverend Bishop VALENTIN of Suzdal and Vladimir 2001 NATIVITY, LENTEN, AND PASCHAL EPISTLES
  • 2007 PASCHAL EPISTLE OF HIS EMINENCE VALENTINE, METROPOLITAN OF SUZDAL AND VLADIMIR

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  • 2006/2007 Nativity Epistle of His Eminence Metropolitan VALENTINE

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  • 2006 Paschal Epistle of Vladyka Valentine of Suzdal and Vladimir

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  • 2005/2006 Nativity Epistle of the Synod of Bishops of the ROAC

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  • 2005 Paschal Epistle of Vladyka Valentine of Suzdal and Vladimir

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  • 2005 Lenten Address of the First Hierarch of the ROAC Synod

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  • 2004/2005 Nativity Epistle of His Eminence Metropolitan VALENTINE

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  • 2004 Lenten Address of the First Hierarch of the ROAC Synod
  • 2004 Paschal Epistle of Vladyka Valentine of Suzdal and Vladimir

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  • 2003/2004 Nativity Epistle of His Eminence Metropolitan VALENTINE

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  • 2003 Paschal Epistle of Vladyka Valentine of Suzdal and Vladimir

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  • 2002/2003 Nativity Epistle of His Eminence Metropolitan VALENTINE

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  • 2002 Paschal Epistle of Vladyka Valentine of Suzdal and Vladimir

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  • 2001/2002 Nativity Epistle of His Eminence Metropolitan VALENTINE

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  • 2001 Paschal Epistle of Vladyka Valentine of Suzdal and Vladimir

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  • 2001 Lenten Address of the First Hierarch of the ROAC Synod

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  • 2000/2001 Nativity Epistle of His Eminence Metropolitan VALENTINE

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    HAGIOGRAPHIES OF RUSSIAN ORTHODOX SAINTS
  • The Holy Women and Nuns of Diveyevo and Sarov by Hierodeacon Theophan

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  • The Holy New-Martyrs and Confessors of Russia by Saint Philaret of New York

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  • The Life of Saint John the Wonderworker of San Francisco by Archpriest Valery Lukianov

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  • The Life of Saint Philaret the New Confessor of New York by Miss Tatyana Senina

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