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Church History & Fathers

Who are the heroes of Orthodoxy? – St. Athanasius of Alexandria

 Who are the heroes of Orthodoxy? – St. Athanasius of Alexandria When we start speaking about heroes we can easily begin talking about the patristic fathers. They are the ones who stood firmly in their Orthodox faith and tradition and

Was there a Liturgy in the Early Church?

Was there a Liturgy in the Early Church? Some people (including some Christians) think that, in the early church, there wasn’t any liturgy as we have today. They may believe that it was an invention by the Church and not

How did monasticism come to be?

How did monasticism come to be?  Why is monasticism such an essential part of the Orthodox tradition and how did it begin? To begin answering this question we need to look back at history.  In the first couple of centuries