Sergei Seryubin
As a former editor of an Orthodox newspaper, I had known about this particular episode from St. Andrew's life for seven years. And now I lived to see it materialize and try it on myself:
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the closure of the St. Vladmir Monastery in Chersonesos, Crimea, built on the site where St. Vladimir the Great was baptized in 988.
St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Mission is growing with the help of many private donors, its sister parish in the United States, St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Church in Roswell, Georgia, and the mission platform, Orthodox Africa.
According to the investigation Fr. Pavel is one of the closest associates of the Lavra abbot, His Eminence Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod, who has been a target of the SBU since last April.
The Orthodox of the Czech Republic got acquainted with the mission in Tanzania through the Orthodox Brotherhood of Foreign Missions of Thessaloniki, which mediated the creation of this project.