Elder Ephraim of Arizona — The American Period
Elder Ephraim of Arizona: his sanctity, the apparatus built around him, ROCOR, Passias, money, victims, and Orthodox discernment.
Category Patristic Orthodoxy
Essays on patristic discernment, living Tradition, spiritual authority, and the difference between Orthodox confession, ideology, and religious mythology.
Patristic Discernment
True Orthodoxy
Essays on patristic criteria, living Tradition, and the discernment between confession, ideology, and religious mythology.
Core Article
What Does “True Orthodoxy” Mean?
Four patristic criteria for judging tradition, authority, and spiritual fruit soberly.
What Does “True Orthodoxy” Mean? Four Patristic Criteria for Discernment
What does true Orthodoxy mean? Four patristic criteria for discernment: apostolic continuity, catholicity, holiness, and Eucharistic communion.
Cleopa, the Last Saint of Romania
Saint Cleopa Ilie, glorified in 2025, as a patristically verifiable Romanian Orthodox elder: life, teaching, humility, gifts, and fruits.
Great Holy Water and Small Holy Water — the Romanian tradition compared to other Orthodox countries
In the Holy Orthodox Church, water is not merely a creature of nature, but one of the foremost through which the gift of God works. From the very Creation, the Holy Spirit moved upon the face of the waters (Genesis…