Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church
American Diocese

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 Theodore 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.

DOCUMENTS

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)

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

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

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

Is Orthodoxy a Religion?

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

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

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS — ROAC OF AMERICA


2008 Sobor Protocols of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC)

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

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

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

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

2003 Appeal of Metropolitan VALENTINE to the ROCOR

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

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

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

HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS OF THE ROAC


A Brief History of the ROAC in Russia and Abroad

2007 Ukaz 10: Concerning Vertograd Staff Members

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

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

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

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

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

1999 Anathema Against the Sergianists

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

HISTORY of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church


The History of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church

The Free Russian Orthodox Church: A Short History

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)

1995 Last Will and Testament of Archbishop ANTONY

1994 Letter of Bishop GREGORY to Metropolitan VITALY

1983 Anathema Against Ecumenism (and the Branch Theory)

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

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

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

1971 Second Sorrowful Epistle of Metropolitan (now Saint) PHILARET

1969 First Sorrowful Epistle of Metropolitan (now Saint) PHILARET

1965 Protest on the Lifting of the Anathemas of 1054

1957 Last Will and Testament of Metropolitan ANASTASSY

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

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.

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)

†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

2005 Interview with Bishop IRINARCH of Tula and Briansk

2004 Interview of Bishop IRINARCH of Tula and Briansk

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

1999 Interview of Archbishop THEODORE of Borisovsk and Sanino

NATIVITY, LENTEN, AND PASCHAL EPISTLES
2007 PASCHAL EPISTLE OF HIS EMINENCE VALENTINE, METROPOLITAN OF SUZDAL AND VLADIMIR

2006/2007 Nativity Epistle of His Eminence Metropolitan VALENTINE

2006 Paschal Epistle of Vladyka Valentine of Suzdal and Vladimir

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

2005 Paschal Epistle of Vladyka Valentine of Suzdal and Vladimir

2005 Lenten Address of the First Hierarch of the ROAC Synod

2004/2005 Nativity Epistle of His Eminence Metropolitan VALENTINE

2004 Lenten Address of the First Hierarch of the ROAC Synod2004 Paschal Epistle of Vladyka Valentine of Suzdal and Vladimir

2003/2004 Nativity Epistle of His Eminence Metropolitan VALENTINE

2003 Paschal Epistle of Vladyka Valentine of Suzdal and Vladimir

2002/2003 Nativity Epistle of His Eminence Metropolitan VALENTINE

2002 Paschal Epistle of Vladyka Valentine of Suzdal and Vladimir

2001/2002 Nativity Epistle of His Eminence Metropolitan VALENTINE

2001 Paschal Epistle of Vladyka Valentine of Suzdal and Vladimir

2001 Lenten Address of the First Hierarch of the ROAC Synod

2000/2001 Nativity Epistle of His Eminence Metropolitan VALENTINE

HAGIOGRAPHIES OF RUSSIAN ORTHODOX SAINTS


The Holy Women and Nuns of Diveyevo and Sarov by Hierodeacon Theophan

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

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

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