ROCOR and GOC (Audio)

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By Fr. Steven Allen
Created on Sunday, 27 August 2023 02:02

Part of the audio series Our Struggle, part of The Narrow Path Podcast.

"Dear Listeners,

"We shall now continue our course on the struggle of True Orthodoxy in the contemporary era with an examination of the relationship between the Russian Church Abroad and the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece. As I said in regard to the first Our Struggle post, this talk may not be for everyone: new inquirers into Orthodoxy and new converts in “World” Orthodoxy may simply be bewildered because of their lack of historical background. This was true of our first four talks, and it is even more true of this podcast, which presumes quite a bit of knowledge about the people and events involved."

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