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Lives, works and testimonies of the Russian New Martyrs

 SOURCES OF THE LIVES AND WITNESSES OF THE RUSSIAN NEW MARTYRS AGAINST SERGIANISM AND COMMUNISM





In 1927, the temporary deputy of the Patriarchal Locum Tenens of the Russian Church, Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky), entered into an agreement with the Bolshevik OGPU, and having illegally usurped Church authority, issued a "Declaration" in which he declared, on behalf of the entire Russian Church, cooperation with the God-fighters, as the heretic Renovationists had previously done. The Bolshevik government was declared by him to be "an authority from God", and its joys and successes, including the millions of victims of its bloody godless terror - "the joys and successes of the church". The entire host of Russian Saints, Righteous, Venerable, and Fools for Christ, who still filled Rus' enslaved by the Bolsheviks, rejected this false teaching of his and characterized it as heresy and anti-Christianity. In response to numerous requests to return to the true path and protests from all three patriarchal Locum Tenens, as well as the majority of the episcopate and the best part of the Russian clergy, Sergius responded with the most severe prohibitions, acting contrary to the canons and his powers,
thereby giving rise to a terrible schism in the Church. All those who disagreed with his course were declared by the OGPU "enemies of the Soviet power",
"counter-revolutionaries", and over the course of several years, until 1938, almost all (tens of thousands of clergy and monastics) were
shot. A small remnant of the Russian Church continued to survive in the catacombs, and in the White émigré "Russian Orthodox Church Abroad" (ROCOR), also called the "Catacomb" and "True Orthodox" Church. The neo-Renovationist schism led by Sergius received the status of an official church from the Bolsheviks in exchange for close cooperation with the godless government. In 1943, by personal decree of Stalin, this cooperation became even closer, and Sergius' group received the name of the "Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate" (ROC MP), and continues to call itself that to this day.
Declaration of Metropolitan Sergius was only the beginning of the godless path that his "Patriarchate" embarked on, and which was officially continued in many blasphemous messages and statements of councils, synods, patriarchs and hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church MP, glorifying Bolshevism, Stalinism and the "gains of the great October" until 1991. But to this day, Sergius's "Patriarchate" defends its Bolshevik "heritage", continues to bless and participate in all Soviet holidays and celebrations, uses Soviet symbols, supports communist and left-wing parties in elections... And Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) "patr." Alexei II (Ridiger) and Kirill (Gundyaev) recently declared a "confessor".


Books to learn the history of the Sergianist heresy:

1. Twentieth Century,: Orthodoxy and Militant Atheists (Metropolitan Kallistos Ware)


2. Russian Orthodox Church in the Homeland and Abroad (Archpriest Veniamin Zhukov)


3. ROCA/MP History (Fr.Nikita Grigoriev)


4. The True Face of the Moscow Patriarchate (Priest Gleb Yakunin)


5. Brief summary of the quotes of various Russian New Martyrs on Sergianism


LIST OF SOURCES

1. Russian catacomb saints by Professor Ivan Andreev and Fr Seraphim Rose (In English and Russian)









10. In the Catacombs by Sergei Shumilo in Russian and English:







15. Lives of Russian New Martyrs by Vladimir Moss


16. Lives of New Martyrs by Priest Michael Polsky:

Volume 1:



18. Archimandrite Panteleimon (Nizhnik)
Ray of Light. Teaching in defense of the Orthodox faith, in denunciation of atheism and in refutation of doctrines of unbelief



Below are some photos of the Russian New Martyrs that rejected Sergianism and the Moscow Patriarchate:

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