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Persecution of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church in Russia

2015-Russian Authorities Ban ROAC Materials in Vladimir (Russian)

2015–Russian Authorities Ban ROAC Materials in Vladimir (English)

2015–Russian Federal Extremist List Adds Materials by Archbishop Andrei (Russian)

2015–Russian Federal Extremist List Adds Materials by Archbishop Andrei (English)

Official Russian Federal List of Extremist Materials (Including Banned ROAC Texts (Russian)

Federal List of Extremist Materials

Prot. Roman Novakovsky. "A little more about «the painful»."

Answer of Archpriest Anatoly Manakov to the article by Abbot Proclus «Lamentation»

Archbishop Evlogy of Vladimir and Suzdal appealed to Suzdal residents to return to the Moscow Patriarchate

Against the Vertograd Campaign: Hegumen Feofan (2007)

Letter from Abbess Sophia (ROAC) to her former confessor, Hierom. Anthony (MP)

The ROAC Church lost the case to the Federal Property Management Agency

The Vladimir Arbitration Court considered the claim of the Federal Property Management Agency against the ROAC

Levitskaya: “The State Must Be Excommunicated from the Church”

Appeal to the management of the TV channel «TV Center» of the Suzdal clergy of the ROAC

Interview with Fr. Mikhail Ardov on TV Center's “Invaders in Robes” Program

Appeal of Suzdal Believers Regarding NTV Provocations

Hegumen Feofan. "Battle of Suzdal"

Persecutions of the Russian Church Continue in the Bryansk Region (2008)

The Vladimir District Court Ordered the Seizure of Six Churches (2009)

Gorlanov and the Moscow Patriarchate Against the ROAC (2009)

A Gathering of Believers Was Held in Suzdal on the Feast of the New Martyrs of Russia (2009)

On the Eve of Pascha, Suzdal Police Demanded the Removal of Posters from the Fence of Tsarekonstantinovsky Cathedral (20

Court Decision on the Kresto-Nikolsky and Lazarevsky ROAC Churches (2009)

The Court Issued Decisions on the Kosmodamianovsky and Assumption Churches (2009)

Suzdal ROAC Parishioners Sent Two More Letters to the President of Russia (2009)

Meeting of the Suzdal Deanery Clergy on the Persecution of the ROAC (2009)

Free Press: “In Suzdal, Churches Are Being Taken Away from Orthodox Christians” (2009)

Appeal of the ROAC Community in Zheleznovodsk to the International Community and Human Rights Defenders (2009)

ARCHIVE: Chronicle of the Persecution of the Russian Orthodox (Autonomous) Church and Metropolitan Valentine (2001–2006)

An FSB Officer Interrogated Foreign Guests in Suzdal (2011)

CONCERNING THE CURRENT STATE OF ARCHPRIEST MARK TEMPLET:

On Sunday, November 16, 2025 (NS), the Very Reverend Archpriest Mark Templet requested a canonical release from His Eminence, The Most Reverend Archbishop Andrei of Pavlovskoye and Rockland to Metropolitan Demetrius of the GOC-K.

For full transparency, the letters of correspondence have been uploaded to the website:

Archpriest Mark Templet’s Letter Requesting a Canonical Release

The Most Reverend Archbishop Andrei’s Response

UPDATE #1:

The following document includes correspondence from His Eminence, The Most Reverend Archbishop Andrei of Pavlovskoye and Rockland to the Very Reverend Archpriest Mark Templet, sent on Monday, November 17, 2025 (NS):

The Most Reverend Archbishop Andrei’s Message to Archpriest Mark Templet

November 17-20, 2025 (NS)

UPDATE #2:

The following document contains correspondence between His Eminence, The Most Reverend Archbishop Andrei of Pavlovskoye and Rockland, and the Very Reverend Archpriest Mark Templet, from Monday, November 17, 2025, through Tuesday, November 18, 2025 (NS):

Correspondence between the Most Reverend Archbishop Andrei and the Very Reverend Archpriest Mark Templet

November 21, 2025 (NS)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

With the blessing of His Eminence, The Most Reverend Archbishop Andrei of Pavlovskoye and Rockland:

Correspondence Between a Parishioner of St. Peter the Aleut Church and Archbishop Andrei

A List of Proponents and Opponents of “Imyaslavie”

November 26, 2025 (NS)

With the blessing of His Eminence, The Most Reverend Archbishop Andrei of Pavlovskoye and Rockland:

Dubious Orthodoxy of Metropolitan Cyprian – by Bishop Gregory Grabbe

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

The Name of God in Russian Orthodoxy, 1913–1918: Imiaslavie and Synodal Decisions

Supplementary Report: Imiaslavie and Synodal Judgments (1913–1918)

December 11, 2025 (NS)

With the blessing of His Eminence, The Most Reverend Archbishop Andrei of Pavlovskoye and Rockland:

A Brief Overview of the Continuance of Cyprianite Ecclesiology

Additionally, the following article, originally uploaded on March 27, 2014 (NS), has been recovered from the Wayback Machine Internet Archive:

The Kallinikite Unia by Vladimir Moss

Separately, on March 23, 2014 (NS), His Eminence Archbishop Andrei issued the following public statement:

About the recent merger of the Synod in Resistance, the GOC, and the ROCOR(A)

December 24, 2025 (NS)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

With the blessing of His Eminence, The Most Reverend Archbishop Andrei of Pavlovskoye and Rockland:

Regarding the Schism in Louisiana

Collected works of Metropolitan Valentine

Interview with Metropolitan Valentin: “If the Church Stops Bearing Witness to Truth…

Metropolitan Valentin's Christmas Message (2007)

Answer of Metropolitan Valentin of Suzdal and Vladimir to Address to Orthodox Suzdal residents» Archbishop MP Eulogius

"The Gulag Archipelago of the Moscow Patriarchate" (2008)

Easter Message from His Eminence Metropolitan Valentin of Suzdal and Vladimir 2008

Christmas Message of Metropolitan Valentine, First Hierarch of the ROAC (2010)

Paschal Message of Metropolitan Valentine of Suzdal and Vladimir (2010)

Paschal Message of Metropolitan Valentine of Suzdal and Vladimir (2011)

Collected Works of Metropoltian Theodore

Lenten Message of Archbishop Theodore, First Hierarch of the ROAC (2012)

Paschal Message of Archbishop Theodore of Suzdal and Vladimir (2012)

2016 Easter Message From Metropolitan Theodore

2017 - LENTEN MESSAGE OF HIS EMINENCE THEODORE ARCHBISHOP OF SUZDAL AND VLADIMIR FIRST HIERARCH

2023- CHRISTMAS MESSAGE First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church Metropolitan Theodore

2023-Lenten Message of the First Hierarch of the ROAC Metropolitan Theodore

2026- LENTEN MESSAGE First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church His Eminence Theodore

Sermon by Archbishop Theodore on Otradnaya's 150th Anniversary (2007)

Collected works of Vladyka Georgy Grabbe

Prot. Georgy Grabbe. «Acrivia and economy»

Prot George Grabbe A Fantastic Story Hitler and ROCOR

the humble minister of the Virgin, Brother Joseph Muñoz-Cortez

Hegumen Feofan. "The Last Martyr of the Church of Christ, Part 1."

Hegumen Feofan. "The Last Martyr of the Church of Christ, Part 2."

Gumerova L. "Why are you depriving people of a Miracle?" To the 10th anniversary of the martyrdom of Jose Muñoz

ROAC Council of Bishops

Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church: Day One (2008)

Day two is needed

Third meeting of the Congress (2008)

Day 4 is needed

Council Definition Regarding Bishop Sebastian of Chelyabinsk (2008)

Council Definition on the Moscow Patriarchate and World Orthodoxy (2008)

Council Definition on the Teachings of Metropolitan Cyprian of Oropos and Phyle (2008)

Council Definition on the New Liturgical Calendar (2008)

Report on Reception from Heretical and Schismatic Communities (2008)

Report on the New Ceremony for the Triumph of Orthodoxy (2008)

Report of Bishop Irinarch of Tula and Bryansk to the Council of Bishops (2008)

Bishop Ambrose's Report on the Canonical Administration of the ROAC (2008)

Report of Archbishop Theodore on the Canonical and Legal Status of the ROAC (2008)

Report of Archbishop Hilarion on the Spiritual and Canonical Status of the Moscow Patriarchate (2008)

Report of Bishop Andrei on the Teachings of Metropolitan Cyprian (2008)

Report of Bishop Gerontius on the New Church Calendar as an Ecclesiological Heresy (2008)

Metropolitan Valentin's Report on the Life of the Russian Orthodox Church (1991–2008)

Bishop Ambrose: "In an Unbreakable Union Against the Lord and His Church" (2008)

Report of Bishop Ambrose: "Saints and 'Saints'" (2008)

Message of the Council of Bishops to Orthodox Christians (2008)

Resolution of the ROAC Council “On the Reception of Clergy and Laity from ‘World Orthodoxy’” (2008

Congress Appeal Concerning the Persecution of the ROAC (2008)

Confessors of True Orthodoxy: Archbishop of Athens and All Hellas AUXENTIUS, hierarch and minister of Christ (1912-1994)

Confessor of True Orthodoxy: Archbishop Auxentius of Athens and All Hellas, Pt. 1

Confessor of True Orthodoxy: Archbishop Auxentius of Athens and All Hellas, Pt. 2

Confessor of True Orthodoxy: Archbishop Auxentius of Athens and All Hellas, Pt. 3

Confessor of True Orthodoxy: Archbishop Auxentius of Athens and All Hellas, Pt. 4

Historical

Archpriest Mikhail Ardov — on the signing of the Act of Canonical Communion of the Russian Orthodox Church MP and ROCOR

Report of Abbot Feofan Regarding the reunification of the Russian Church Abroad with the Moscow Patriarchate

Letter of Metropolitans Sergius, Alexy, and Nikolai to I.V. Stalin, September 5, 1943 (2009)

Edelstein G. “The New Patriarch as the Personification of Our Problems” (2009)

“Walking to the Jordan” in Zheleznovodsk (2009)

Letter from Bishop Timofey of Orenburg and Kurgan to Bishop Diomede (MP) (2009)

Hegumen Feofan, “In Defense of His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon” (2009)

A Community in Italy Joined the ROAC (2009)

Bishop Andrew of Pavlovsk Ordained Presbyter Michael McCombs (2009)

At the Council of Bishops in Suzdal, a New First Hierarch of the ROAC Was Elected (2012)

Statement of the ROAC Synod of Bishops on the Repose of Metropolitan Valentine (2012)

Farewell Address on Metropolitan Valentine (Rusantsov) by Bishop Andrey (2012)

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