Vlasios phidas biography

Recently, the well-known Greek theologian, Prof.

The Autonomous Church of Estonia is an important historical witness of Orthodoxy's presence in the Baltic Lands in the second millennium of the church's.

Greek theologian and university professor.

The reviewer had the good fortune to present the first volume of this magnificent Manual of Vlasios I. Phidas, Church History I, Athens , in an extended.

Vlasios Phidas, professor emeritus of church history at the University of Athens, has recently published an additional third volume to his church history.

Greek theologian and university professor....

THE CHURCH OF ESTONIA

by Vlasios Phidas, Professor of the University (Athens)(1)

The Autonomous Church of Estonia is an important historical witness of Orthodoxy’s presence in the Baltic Lands in the second millennium of the church’s historical existence; and it belongs to the community of Autocephalous and Autonomous Orthodox Churches.

The Church of Estonia was proclaimed Autonomous by the ecumenical Patriarchate with the issue of the customary Patriarchal Tome, in 1923. After a protracted period of persecutions and others vicissitudes, the Orthodox Church of Estonia now gained its ecclesiastical autonomy and its internal self-reliance.

The spread of Christianity into Estonia was related to the activities of the Byzantine mission to Russia in the late tenth and early eleventh century.

We learn from the Russian «Chronicle of Novgorod» that the Great Prince (velikii kniaz) of Kiev, Yaroslav the Wise (1015-1054), built two orthodox churches in the town of Yurev (the later