Armenian street in Chisinau
In the new capital of Bessarabia, Chisinau, Armenians had settled as early as the 17th century. There was an Armenian street in the old commercial center of the town. It is still called Armenian. Armenians also had their own church, dedicated to St Mary, and built in 1804. The photo story was provided by RFE/RL's Moldovan Service.
Holy God - Moldavian Chant / The Great Orthodox Liturgy
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Kolejne wydawnictwo pod dyr. Mihajlo Lazarević'a - najlepsza muzyka cerkiewna prosto z Czarnogóry!
Mihajlo Lazarević (1971) jest absolwentem Wydziału Muzyki na Akademii Sztuk Pięknych (Uniwersytet Novi Sad, Serbia) oraz Akademii Muzycznej w Cetinje (Czarnogóra). Jest także doktorem honoris causa Uniwersytetu w Belgradzie. Lazarević początkowo asystował dyrygentom chórów “Sonja Marinkovic” i “St. Stefan Decanski”, a w 1994 r. objął opiekę nad Towarzystwem „Jedinstvo”. Od 1997 r. pracował w Średniej Szkole Muzycznej w Kotorze (chór, dyrygentura, solfeż), uczył również śpiewu kościelnego w seminarium Świętego Piotra w Cetinje.
W latach 2003-2007 brał udział w Festiwalu KotorArt Music, a od 2011 r. uczestniczył w projektach Music Centre w Czarnogórze, aktywnie nagrywa i publikuje płyty.
Tracklista:
1. Traditional Serbian chant – Great Litany
2. fr. Žarko Srdić – Bless the Lord, o My Soul
3. Traditional Serbian chant – Small Litany
4. Serbian “Karlovci” chant, Mode II - O, Only Begotten Son
5. Russian chant – Come, Let Us Worship
6. Serbian “Karlovci” chant, Mode VIII – Troparion to St Peter of Cetinje
7. “Moldavian” chant – Holy God
8. Traditional Serbian chant – Litany of Fervent Supplication
9. Traditional Serbian chant – Small Litany
10. Russian chant – Cherubic Hymn “Starosimonvskaya”
11. Traditional Serbian chant – Litany of Supplication, The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
12. The Creed
13. Russian “Diachovsky” chant – Mercy of Peace
14. Byzantine chant, XV c. – Axion Estin
15. Traditional Serbian chant – Litany of Supplication
16. Our Father
Traditional Serbian chant – One is holy
17. John Laskaris, XV c. – Aineite ton Kirion
Serbian “Karlovci” chant – Praise the Lord
18. Serbian “Karlovci” chant – Blessed is He Who Cometh in the Name of the Lord
19. Miodrag Govedarica – Body of Christ
20. Serbian “Karlovci” chant – We Have Seen the True Light, Let Our Mouths Be Filled With Thy Praise
21. Serbian “Karlovci” chant – Blessed Be the Name of the Lord
22. Glory… and now
23. Many Years
Easter Sunday Bells in Moldova
Listen for the bells in the background and see all the lights where people are standing and waiting for their baskets of food to be blessed. I was trying to keep up with my host dad as we made our way through the crowd.
Eastern Orthodox | Wikipedia audio article
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The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 200–260 million members. As one of the oldest religious institutions in the world, the Orthodox Church has played a prominent role in the history and culture of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Caucasus, and the Near East. It operates as a communion of autocephalous churches, each governed by its bishops, called a Holy Synod. The church has no central doctrinal or governance authority analogous to the Catholic pope, but the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is recognised by all as primus inter pares (first among equals) of the bishops.
Eastern Orthodox theology is based on the Nicene Creed, and the church teaches that it is the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic church established by Jesus Christ in his Great Commission, and that its bishops are the successors of Christ's apostles. It maintains that it practices the original Christian faith, passed down by sacred tradition. Its patriarchates, reminiscent of the pentarchy, and autocephalous and autonomous churches reflect a variety of hierarchical organisation. Of its innumerable Sacred Mysteries, it recognises seven major sacraments, of which the Eucharist is the principal one, celebrated liturgically in synaxis. The church teaches that through consecration invoked by a priest the sacrificial bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ. The Virgin Mary is venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Mother of God, honoured in devotions.
The Eastern Orthodox Church shared communion with the Roman Catholic Church until the East–West Schism in AD 1054, triggered by disputes over doctrine, especially the authority of the Pope. Before the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, Oriental Orthodox churches also shared in this communion, separating primarily over differences in Christology.
The majority of Eastern Orthodox Christians live in Eastern Europe, Greece, and the Caucasus, with smaller communities in the former Byzantine regions of the eastern Mediterranean, Africa, and to a decreasing degree also in the Middle East due to persecution. There are also many in other parts of the world, formed through diaspora, conversions, and missionary activity.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 200–260 million members. As one of the oldest religious institutions in the world, the Orthodox Church has played a prominent role in the history and culture of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Caucasus, and the Near East. It operates as a communion of autocephalous churches, each governed by its bishops, called a Holy Synod. The church has no central doctrinal or governance authority analogous to the Catholic pope, but the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is recognised by all as primus inter pares (first among equals) of the bishops.
Eastern Orthodox theology is based on the Nicene Creed, and the church teaches that it is the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic church established by Jesus Christ in his Great Commission, and that its bishops are the successors of Christ's apostles. It maintains that it practices the original Christian faith, passed down by sacred tradition. Its patriarchates, reminiscent of the pentarchy, and autocephalous and autonomous churches reflect a variety of hierarchical organisation. Of its innumerable Sacred Mysteries, it recognises seven major sacraments, of which the Eucharist is the principal one, celebrated liturgically in synaxis. The church teaches that through consecration invoked by a priest the sacrificial bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ. The Virgin Mary is venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Mother of God, honoured in devotions.
The Eastern Orthodox Church shared communion with the Roman Catholic Church until the East–West Schism in AD 1054, triggered by disputes over doctrine, especially the authority of the Pope. Before the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, Oriental Orthodox churches also shared in this communion, separating primarily over differences in Christology.
The majority of Eastern Orthodox Christians live in Eastern Europe, Greece, and the Caucasus, with smaller communities in the former Byzantine regions of the eastern Mediterranean, Africa, and to a decreasing degree also in the Middle East due to persecution. There are also many in other parts of the world, formed through diaspora, conversions, and missionary activity.
Eastern Orthodoxy | Wikipedia audio article
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Eastern Orthodoxy
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 200–260 million members. As one of the oldest religious institutions in the world, the Orthodox Church has played a prominent role in the history and culture of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Caucasus, and the Near East. It operates as a communion of autocephalous churches, each governed by its bishops, called a Holy Synod. The church has no central doctrinal or governance authority analogous to the Catholic pope, but the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is recognised by all as primus inter pares (first among equals) of the bishops.
Eastern Orthodox theology is based on the Nicene Creed, and the church teaches that it is the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic church established by Jesus Christ in his Great Commission, and that its bishops are the successors of Christ's apostles. It maintains that it practices the original Christian faith, passed down by sacred tradition. Its patriarchates, reminiscent of the pentarchy, and autocephalous and autonomous churches reflect a variety of hierarchical organisation. Of its innumerable Sacred Mysteries, it recognises seven major sacraments, of which the Eucharist is the principal one, celebrated liturgically in synaxis. The church teaches that through consecration invoked by a priest the sacrificial bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ. The Virgin Mary is venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Mother of God, honoured in devotions.
The Eastern Orthodox Church shared communion with the Roman Catholic Church until the East–West Schism in AD 1054, triggered by disputes over doctrine, especially the authority of the Pope. Before the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, Oriental Orthodox churches also shared in this communion, separating primarily over differences in Christology.
The majority of Eastern Orthodox Christians live in Eastern Europe, Greece, and the Caucasus, with smaller communities in the former Byzantine regions of the eastern Mediterranean, Africa, and to a decreasing degree also in the Middle East due to persecution. There are also many in other parts of the world, formed through diaspora, conversions, and missionary activity.
Apostolic administrator | Wikipedia audio article
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Apostolic administrator
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An apostolic administrator in the Catholic Church is a prelate appointed by the Pope to serve as the ordinary for an apostolic administration. An apostolic administration can either be an area that is not yet a diocese (a stable 'pre-diocesan', usually missionary apostolic administration) or for a diocese, eparchy or similar permanent ordinariate (such a territorial prelature or a territorial abbacy) that either has no bishop (an apostolic administrator sede vacante, as after an episcopal death or resignation) or, in very rare cases, has an incapacitated bishop (apostolic administrator sede plena).
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An apostolic administrator in the Catholic Church is a prelate appointed by the Pope to serve as the ordinary for an apostolic administration. An apostolic administration can either be an area that is not yet a diocese (a stable 'pre-diocesan', usually missionary apostolic administration) or for a diocese, eparchy or similar permanent ordinariate (such a territorial prelature or a territorial abbacy) that either has no bishop (an apostolic administrator sede vacante, as after an episcopal death or resignation) or, in very rare cases, has an incapacitated bishop (apostolic administrator sede plena).