By Archimandrite Constantine Zaitsev (+1975) of Jordanville In the distant background of our everyday life stands the “Soviet Church.” It is against this dreadful backdrop that we truly perceive the inexpressible happiness of our freedom. We look with sorrow upon our fellow believers who refuse to comprehend either the human tragedy or the spiritual depravity embodied in this expression—an expression which should have remained merely an example of what in logic is called contradictio in...| Orthodox Traditional
The Orthodox Traditionalist is an editorial and research-based blog focusing on the preservation and promulgation of the Orthodox Christian Tradition. The goal is to discuss various controversial issues and events occurring within the life of the Orthodox Church.| Orthodox Traditional
Former Permanent Chairman of the Russian Association of Shanghai — G. K. Bologov, Former members of its Executive Committee (last...| Orthodox Traditionalist Publications
By Holy Trinity Monastery (Jordanville, NY)In the early 1900’s, and especially in the 1920’s, there were strong anti-Church and secularist forces in power in Greece and in the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Among the actions of these forces, there was introduced, by force, the Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar is adequate for the functions of business, the stock-exchange, and other worldly, secular activities. Liturgically, however, it is practically useless, even harmful. It is in no ...| Orthodox Traditional
By Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A. As Orthodox Christians we are called to live our whole life in Christ. Everything we do should be weighed in the context of our life in Christ as Orthodox Christians. This includes who and what we vote for. Orthodox Christianity is not a religion, it is an entire way of life in which we live. If we are genuine Orthodox Christians, living the traditional Orthodox Christian life, we must come to the understanding that this cannot be compartmentalized and segregated fro| Orthodox Traditional
By Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A. In a recent article, John Whiteford—the ROCOR-MP priest notorious for his unyielding defense of the Moscow...| Orthodox Traditionalist Publications
Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A. As many are aware, there is a growing interest in the Old Calendarist Orthodox Church due to its staunchly...| Orthodox Traditionalist Publications
Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A.In the wake of the horrendous assassination of Conservative Commentator Charlie Kirk—which left his wife Erika without a husband and their two children without their father—we have seen an explosion of disgusting social media posts across the internet. Thousands of cretins have been posting their vile, sub-human celebrations of this crime against Charlie Kirk simply because of his outspoken conservative political message.No doubt, in the post-Obama and Biden Unite...| Orthodox Traditional
Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A. In a recent YouTube short posted by Patristic Nectar Publications, Bishop Irenei, the ROCOR-MP Bishop of...| Orthodox Traditionalist Publications
Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A. On August 27th, 2025, at the New Calendarist 'church' of Saint Anargyroi, the pseudo-bishop “Metropolitan” Nathanael (Symeonides) of the apostate Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOARCH) delivered an ecumenical speech entitled “The 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea,” in which he gave a thoroughly heretical confession of faith against Holy Orthodoxy and put on full display his ecumenist groveling before Papist Cardinal Robert Barron—very muc...| Orthodox Traditional
STATEMENT OF THE HOLY SYNOD OF THE BULGARIAN ORTHODOX OLD CALENDAR CHURCH Honorable clergy, beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord! As...| Orthodox Traditionalist Publications
By Metropolitan Agafangel (Pashkovsky) First-Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church AbroadPatriarch Kirill, who headed the Moscow Patriarchate, in his speech of July 12th, 2025 in the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg, suddenly scattered with especially servile compliments to the dictator and murderer Putin, blasphemously calling him an "Orthodox man" who: "Not some random parishioner mimicking the religion of the majority, but a church man, sincerely believing. Could we have thought| Orthodox Traditional
Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A. In a recent video published by Patristic Nectar Publications on their official YouTube channel, Bishop Irenei...| Orthodox Traditionalist Publications
Introduction by Subdeacon Nektarios, Article by Dimitris Chatzinikolaou, Former Assistant Professor of the University of IoanninaIntroduction Again and again, we have seen these conservative New Calendarists play the role of confessing clergymen against the hyper-ecumenist pseudo-hierarchs to whom they pledge fealty—even while simultaneously rejecting them as heretics for their continued involvement in the ecumenical movement.Take, for example, Father Theodore Zisis, the well-known non-comm...| Orthodox Traditional
Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A. On June 5th, 2025, the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia – Moscow Patriarchate...| Orthodox Traditionalist Publications
By Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A.As many are aware, reports have circulated over the past few days claiming that the Egyptian government intended to seize Saint Katherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Desert, evict the monks, and convert the site into a museum. However, since this news swept through the Orthodox internet, new statements have emerged from both the Greek Prime Minister and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, asserting that the Egyptian government has no intention of seizing the mo...| Orthodox Traditional
By Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A. Yesterday in Rome, the two Arch-Heresiarchs, Bartholomew and Leo XIV, met in order to continue their...| Orthodox Traditionalist Publications
Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A.In a wholly unexpected move from the apathetic and indolent synod of the ROCOR–Moscow Patriarchate, a decree was issued on May 12th, finally returning the former “monastic” Vassa Larin to the status of a laywoman, no longer considered part of the monastic community of the ROCOR–MP. This decree, issued by the remiss First Hierarch, Nicholas of New York, together with Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco, states the following:IT WAS RESOLVED:1) To confirm the deci...| Orthodox Traditional
By Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A. As the world now knows, Pope Francis passed away on April 21st, 2025. A conclave of cardinals was held and,...| Orthodox Traditionalist Publications
By Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A. According to many in World Orthodoxy—particularly among the YouTube Gerondas and spin doctors—the Serbian...| Orthodox Traditionalist Publications
By Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A. In a YouTube post on his channel Orthodox Christian Theology, Craig Truglia issued yet another...| Orthodox Traditionalist Publications
By Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A.On Holy and Bright Friday, an article titled “The Chalcedonian and Non-Chalcedonian Churches: An Objective Presentation” was published on the official Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese website. Written by Metropolitan Saba Isper, the First Hierarch of the Antiochian Archdiocese. This article aims to address a longstanding issue that has plagued this heretical and schismatic jurisdiction: their eucharistic communion with the ecumenically condemned Monophysites, a...| Orthodox Traditional
By Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A. On Bright Thursday, during Vespers, the Church’s liturgical text petitions the Lord to “Establish, O God, the holy Orthodox Faith and Orthodox Christians, unto the ages of ages” [1]. The word establish literally means to make stable or to support, like setting a heavy pillar in stone so that it can never fall.That same day, April 25, 2025, several World Orthodox hierarchs attended "The Joint Meeting of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the USA a...| Orthodox Traditional
Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A.In yet another unsurprising act of heretical ecumenism among the World "Orthodox" primates of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, the Orthodox Church in America, and the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Eastern America, the respective first hierarchs—Elpidophoros, Tikhon, and Irinej—prayerfully participated in the heretical Papist Mass during the installation of Roman Catholic Cardinal Robert McElroy as the 8th Archbishop of Washington, D.C.As reported by the Orthodox Obse...| Orthodox Traditional
