Selected Links

Some of the following links are from non-Orthodox sources. Some are Roman Catholic [RC], some are Anglican or Episcopalian [AE] and some are secular in origin.

Orthodox Churches

The Patriarchate of Constantinople

The Patriarchate of Alexandria

The Patriarchate of Antioch

The Patriarchate of Jerusalem

The Patriarchate of Moscow

    European Representation

The Patriarchate of Serbia

The Patriarchate of Romania

The Patriarchate of Bulgaria

The Patriarchate of Georgia

The Church of Cyprus

The Church of Greece

The Church of Albania

The Church of Poland

The Church of The Czech and Slovak Republics

The Church of Finland

The Church of Estonia

 

Churches in America

The Standing Conference of Orthodox Bishops in America (SCOBA)

The Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America

The Orthodox Church in America

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

The Serbian Orthodox Church in America and Canada

The American Carpatho-Russian Diocese of the United States of America

The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

The Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church

The Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America

The Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America and Canada

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the United States of America

 

SCOBA Organizations

International Orthodox Christian Charities

Orthodox Christian Mission Center

 

Other Church Sites of Interest

The Antiochian Orthodox Deanery of the United Kingdom and Ireland

 

Liturgy

Benedicenda (Rites and Ceremonies to be observed in some of the principal functions of the Roman Pontifical) [RC]

Consecranda (Rites and Ceremonies observed at the Consecration of Churches) [RC]

Explanation of the Prayers and Ceremonies of Holy Mass  (Dom Prosper Gueranger) [RC]

Handy Manual of Pontifical Ceremonies [RC]

The Liturgy of the Church of Sarum (translated by Charles Walker, 1886) [AE]

Latin Mass Resources (Una Voce) [RC]

Memoriale Rituum (Ceremonial for small churches) [RC]

Ordo Romanus Primus (E.G. Atchley, 1905)

A Pictorial Guide to the Latin Mass [RC]

Pontifical Ceremonies, 1903 [RC]

Ritual Notes, (1894 edition) [AE]

The Roman Breviary [RC]

The Roman Martyrology [RC]

The Roman Missal [RC]

The Roman Ritual, part 1 (1964 edition, edited and translated by Philip Weller) [RC]

The Roman Ritual, part 2 [RC]

The Sacred Vestments (an 19th century English translation of a 13th c. text)

Tutorials and other resources for the Latin Mass [RC]

Various Western Rite texts (from Fr. Jack in New Zealand)

Liturgical links

 

Music

A Manual of Church Music for Western Rite Orthodox Musicians (by Rebecca Alford)

Western Rite Orthodox musical resources

Ambrosian Chant (Schola Gregoriana Mediolanensis) [RC]

Choral Evensong (BBC Radio 3) [AE]

Choral Public Domain Library

The Church Music Association of America (with many chant resources) [RC]

Gregorian Chant Notation

Gregorian Chant websites [RC]

More Gregorian Chant websites

Gregorian Chant (Indiana University School of Music)

Liber Antiphonarius [RC]

Liber Usualis [RC]

Music of the Sarum Office [RC]

The Oremus Hymnal (with texts and MIDI files from many hymnals) [AE]

Singing the Psalms (from the Choral Wiki)

Abbaye de Solesmes [RC]

 

Scripture

How to read the Bible and why (by Fr. Justin Popovich)

The King James Bible

The Orthodox Study Bible

 

Church Fathers

Excerpts from the Fathers on various subjects

The St. Pachomius Library [RC]

Writings from the Fathers [RC]

 

Lives of the Saints

Prologue from Ohrid

Who was a Christian in the Holy Land

 

Internet Radio

Ancient Faith Radio

The Ark

 

Western Rite

The Church of Ss. Simon and Jude (Western Rite Orthodoxy in New Zealand)

Russian Observations on the American Prayerbook (1917, translated by W. Barnes)

The Western Rite and the Eastern Church by David Abramtsov

WesternOrthodox.com

Orthodox Resurgence

 

Monasteries

Christ the Savior, Hamilton, Ontario (Western Rite ROCOR)

Holy Cross Hermitage, Wayne, WV

Transfiguration, Ellwood City, PA

Holy Myhrrbearers, Otego, NY

St. Barbara's, Santa Paula. CA

St. Gregory Palamas, Hayesville, OH (Greek Archdiocese)

St. Michael's Skete, Canones, NM (OCA)

Worldwide Directory

 

Orthodox Theological Schools

Holy Cross Seminary, Brookline, MA

St. John of Damascus, Balamand University, Lebanon

St. Tikhon's Seminary, South Canaan, PA

St. Vladimir's Seminary, Crestwood, NY

 

Miscellaneous

Articles by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos and Fr. John Romanides

The Baptismal Site (the place where Christ was baptized by St. John)

The Catholic Encyclopedia (1917) [RC]

Dynamis (Daily devotional readings)

Fasting according to the Byzantine Rite

Holy Land Christian Information Center (Franciscan) [RC]

Internet Medieval Sourcebook

Lenten Recipes - 1

Lenten Recipes - 2

Lenten Recipes - 3

Lenten Recipes - 4

Lenten Recipes - 5

Lenten Recipes - 6

Online English/Latin translator

Online Orthodox classes (St. Catherine Greek Orthodox Church, Greenwood Village, CO)

Orthodoxwiki (encyclopedia and information center)

Prosphora.org (everything you ever wanted to know about holy bread)

 

Blogs and Commentary

American Orthodox Institute

Fr. John Fenton (Western Rite)

Benjamin Johnson (Western Rite)

Subdeacon Thomas Llizo (Western Rite)

OrthodoxyToday.org

Orthodox Christian West (Western Rite)

 

Merchants

The Church Connection, McDonald, Pennsylvania

Come and See Icons, Souderton, Pennsylvania

Conciliar Press

Eastern Christian Supply, California

Eighth Day Books, Wichita, Kansas

Istok Enterprises, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Lancelot Andrewes Press (for the Monastic Diurnal, the St. Dunstan's Psalter, icons and calendars)

Pax House

King Richard's, Atlanta, Georgia

The Third Millennium Bible (New Authorized Version)

St. Nectarios Press, Seattle, Washington

St. Isaac of Syria Skete Icons

 

Iconographers

Aidan Hart

 

Links to other links

Orthodox Church and Bible Study links

Links for the Music and Liturgy of the Church

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