History of the Orthodox Church
St. Bede the Venerable
Historian of the early Orthodox English Church
The true Orthodox way of thought has always been historical, has always included the past, but has never been enslaved by it…[for] the strength of the Church is not in the past, present, or future, but in Christ.
Rt. Rev'd Alexander Schmemann
Articles on Orthodox History
- Introduction to De Incarnatione Verbi Dei
- C.S. Lewis' short but beautifully written introduction to St. Athanasius' On the Incarnation.
- A Russian Easter in the Year of Our Lord 1915
- As observed by an English woman, Etheldred Mary M. Hewlett, and printed in the Rochester Diocesan Chronicle, 1918. An interesting historical snapshot of Holy Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and the persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church by militant atheism.
- Elements and Influence of Judaism Prior to the New Testament Period
- By George Zgourides
- Comparison of the Theological Schools of Alexandria and Antioch
- By George Zgourides
- The Development of Monasticism From Prior to Anthony the Great to Benedict of Nursia
- By George Zgourides
The Rebirth of Western Orthodoxy
- A Short History of the Mass
- From Orthodoxy, the periodical of the Basilian Fathers (received into the Antiochian Archdiocese in 1958). A detailed overview of the development of the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, from its beginnings at the Last Supper and its remembrance by the Apostles to pre-Vatican II days and current Orthodox usage.
Links to Offsite Introductions to Orthodox Church History
- A Timeline of Church History
- A Conciliar Press publication hosted at the St. Ignatius of Antioch mission site.
- Timeline: Eastern Orthodoxy to 1453
- Created by Gerald Bray for Christian History Magazine. Published by a group not in communion with the Patriarchate of Antioch and the rest of the Patriarchal Orthodox Churches.
- The Great Schism
- A section from Bishop Kallistos Ware's The Orthodox Church, at the Serbian Diocese of Raska and Prizren site.
- The History of the Filioque
- An article by Thomas Ross Valentine, at his personal site.
- Orthodox Christians in North America, 1794–1994
- A book by Mark Stokoe and Leonid Kishkovsky, at the Orthodox Church in America.
- History of the Orthodox Church
- An extensive overview of church history at the Serbian Diocese of Raska and Prizren.
- The Ecole Initiative
Creating a Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History on the World Wide Web
- The St. Pachomius Library
- Archives of and links to early Christian documents, at the Orthodox Christian Foundation.