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Archimandrite Pavlos Stratigeas and theologian Athanasios Sakarellos discuss the Orthodox Christian position on Hades. This program is in Greek with ENGLISH subtitles.

On the Feast Day of St Basil the Great in 1990 Metropolitan Petros of Astoria ordained Fr George Poullas to the Priesthood at the Cathedral of St Markella in Astoria, NY.

Archimandrite Pavlos Stratigeas gives a sermon on the Feast Day of St Basil the Great at the Cathedral of St Markella in 1990.

On November 29, 1962, at the Parish of Saint Markella, in Astoria, NYC, Archimandrite Petros (Astyfides) was ordained to the Episcopal dignity by His Eminence Archbishop Leonty of Chile, who was assisted by His Grace Bishop Seraphim of Caracas. Serving as Hieromonk was Eleutherios Moschos, and serving as HieroDeacon was Nikodemos Kalantis. Chanting were Hieromonk Akakios Ntouskos, and Presbyter George Markou. Present were Gerontissa Syglitiki, her sisterhood, Subdeacon Igor, and the future priest Vsevolod Dutikov. Mr. Dutikov drove the Russian bishops from Synod Headquarters in Manhattan to St. Markella's in Astoria, Queens. The ordination was done in secret. No photographs were taken, and certainly no home movies were recorded on any film camera. Recently, by the will of God, an audio recording of the ordination has been discovered. This is that recording. For an account of the circumstances that motivated the secrecy of Bishop Petros' ordination, and how the ROCOR (under the Omophorion of Metropolitan St. Philaret of New York) eventually accepted this ordination, and accepted Bishop Petros as a member of the ROCOR Synod of Bishops please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V05vMkgfO_w&list=PLCKW16X--kPyz2BwizGTxlFDc3-viRG3Y&index=1&t=367s

Archimandrite Pavlos Stratigeas and Theologian Athanasios Sakarellos discuss the Orthodox Christian position on HADES. This program is in the GREEK tongue.

An in-depth round-table discussion about this controversial subject.

Metropolitan Petros of Astoria (1915-1997) was the founder of St. Markella’s Cathedral in Astoria, New York, and is considered the founder of Traditionalist Greek Orthodox Christianity, and monasticism in America. In his lifetime, he was a member of the Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece as an Archimandrite, then fell in with a group of vagante pseudo-Old Calendarists, and was taken in by the Metropolia (forerunner of the Orthodox Church in America [OCA]), was consecrated a bishop by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, and became a member of the Synod of Bishops of the Church of the GOC of Greece. During his forty-seven years in America (thirty-five years as bishop,) he founded and pastored St. Markella’s Cathedral, and oversaw other parishes in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Florida, and Montreal. He remained firmly at the helm of the diocese until his final days. He is therefore of great interest to those concerned with genuine Orthodox Christianity, and to those interested in the building of a Greek Orthodox parish from scratch in an immigrant community, and who have an interest in Greek Old Calendarist relations with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), among other things. Please go to PART 2 Music by Jamie Sieber To learn more about Met. Petros we recommend that you read Anastasios Hudson's book: https://www.amazon.com/Metropolitan-Petros-Astoria-Microcosm-Calendar-ebook/dp/B00M9LFB6Q/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=anastasios+hudson&qid=1608948606&sr=8-1

THIS IS PART TWO (2) Metropolitan Petros of Astoria (1915-1997) was the founder of St. Markella’s Cathedral in Astoria, New York, and is considered the founder of Traditionalist Greek Orthodox Christianity, and monasticism in America. In his lifetime, he was a member of the Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece as an Archimandrite, then fell in with a group of vagante pseudo-Old Calendarists, and was taken in by the Metropolia (forerunner of the Orthodox Church in America [OCA]), was consecrated a bishop by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, and became a member of the Synod of Bishops of the Church of the GOC of Greece. During his forty-seven years in America (thirty-five years as bishop,) he founded and pastored St. Markella’s Cathedral, and oversaw other parishes in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Florida, and Montreal. He remained firmly at the helm of the diocese until his final days. He is therefore of great interest to those concerned with genuine Orthodox Christianity, and to those interested in the building of a Greek Orthodox parish from scratch in an immigrant community, and who have an interest in Greek Old Calendarist relations with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), among other things. Music by Jamie Sieber To learn more about Met. Petros we recommend that you read Anastasios Hudson's book: https://www.amazon.com/Metropolitan-Petros-Astoria-Microcosm-Calendar-ebook/dp/B00M9LFB6Q/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=anastasios+hudson&qid=1608948606&sr=8-1

In 1998, on the Third Sunday of Great Lent (Veneration of the Holy Cross) His Eminence - Pavlos, the Metropolitan of N & S America ordained Deacon Kleanthis Korkotas to the Holy Priesthood. This program utilizes video footage recorded on a Super VHS camcorder. This program is in GREEK with ENGLISH subtitles.

Don't fight it. Embrace it...

How a few effete communist spies deceived the Allies into abandoning their Orthodox Christian allies during WW II & how America betrayed those Christians to the Godless Communist government of Yugoslavia, despite the heroic rescue of 500 American Airmen by those same Serbian Orthodox. -DEMETRIOS E. TROY is the voice of Major Richard L. Felman -For the full interview with O.S.S. officer Arthur Jibilian go to: http://vimeo.com/10542693 Thank you to Vladimir Bibic. -To order the definitive book on the subject, written by Gregory A. Freeman go to: http://www.gregoryafreeman.com/

Metropolitan Pavlos of America explains how a FOX Television production completely misrepresented the Church's understanding, and teachings regarding the Holy Nativity of our Lord.

Dr. Seth Farber, an Orthodox Christian, critiques the American psychiatric/industrial complex.

Metropolitan Pavlos of America discusses how the Holy Nativity is understood, and presented by the FOX cable network. This topic was discussed during His Eminence's Monday night lecture series.

Dr. Seth Farber, an Orthodox Christian, critiques the American psychiatric industry.

We have never known of any motion picture footage of St John Maximovitch, or of St Philaret of New York other than that a few brief seconds... until now. This recently discovered silent film footage features three sections: 1. The laying of the foundation of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Protection of the Holy Virgin (Palo Alto, California), which was conducted by St. John of San Francisco. 2. The blessing of the cupola and its installation conducted by various clergy. 3. The consecration of the church conducted by the holy hierarchs Metropolitan St Philaret, Archbishop St John and Bishop Nektary of Seattle, with numerous other clergy. GOCTV has corrected the speed of the footage so that the motion appears more natural. No other alterations have been made. When GOCTV wrote to the original publisher of this film and asked if we could share it here on our channel, we also asked where the footage was found. We received the this gracious reply: "I discovered an old tape recording while helping to clean someone's garage storage. I restored it and converted it to a digital format. Don't know the origin of it. And yes, feel free to share it. Thanks."

The Feast Day of St Markella (July 22/August 4) as celebrated at the then Parish of St Markella in 1962. This Divine Liturgy was celebrated by Archimandrite Petros Astyfides, Fr Eleutherios Moschos, Hieromonk Akakios Mouskos, and Deacon Nikodemos Kalantis. Heard reading the Creed of Faith is Gerontissa Siglitiki. This is the earliest known recording of Divine Services celebrated at the Parish (later Cathedral) of St Markella. The parish was established by Arch. Petros in 1954, eight years before this recording was made, and ten years after he escaped persecution in Greece and came to America. Less than four months after this Divine Liturgy was served (Nov29/Dec12) Archimandrite Petros was ordained to the Episcopacy as Bishop of Astoria. He would later be elevated to the rank of Metropolitan of Astoria. At the time of this recording Arch. Petros was under the omophorion of Bishop Dositheos of New York, who was a Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dositheus_(Ivanchenko) Fr. Eleutherios, one of the Chian Six, served the Church of St Spyridon in Detroit for many years, and eventually left America and lived on the Holy Mountain until he reposed on April 21, 2020, aged 97. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-4A9z51pqI The Deacon Nikodemos Kalantis is now an Archimandrite serving the Church of St Mark of Ephesus in Montreal. Gerontissa Siglitiki resides at the Cathedral to this day, with her Sisterhood around her there. We have left the glitches in the recording intact. What is heard is the distortion of the sound at the point when the old Wollensak reel-to-reel recorder is turned off. This was done periodically to save tape. Unlike digital recording magnetic tape reels were very limited in their available recording time. The Life of Metropolitan Petros: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V05vMkgfO_w&list=PLCKW16X--kPyz2BwizGTxlFDc3-viRG3Y&index=1&t=10s

The “Voice of Orthodoxy” was a weekly Greek language radio program that was produced and hosted by Bishop Petros (Astyfides) of Astoria. He was occasionally assisted by Gerontissa Siglitiki who hosted portions of the programs. He would record and edit the programs on a “reel to reel” tape recorder in his office at the Cathedral of St Markella in Astoria. He would then have his deacon, Fr Nikodemos Kalantis, deliver them to the broadcast studios of WEVD in Manhattan. WEVD was a radio station that had programing in the Japanese, Yiddish, Russian, Italian, Spanish, English, and Greek languages. The station had as its tag line, “WEVD - The station that speaks your language.” Bishop Petros’ program was produced between the years 1967 and 1973. Thousands of Greek speakers in the Greater New York Metropolitan area would tune in to hear the program every Thursday evening at 7:30 PM. It is believed that the Voice of Orthodoxy was the first regularly scheduled program focusing strictly on the Greek Orthodox Faith in America. Recently, GOCTV has discovered some dozens of original ¼ inch magnetic “reel to reel” tapes of the “Voice of Orthodoxy”. We are currently in the process of digitizing them, translating them, adding English subtitles, and uploading them to the internet so that a new generation of the Faithful can be edified by them. This first program we have uploaded has as its subject, St Philaret the Merciful, some "Church News", and a discussion of why membership in Freemasonry is forbidden to members of the Church. It was broadcast on Thursday - December 8/21, 1972.

We have never known of any motion picture footage of St John Maximovitch, or of St Philaret of New York other than that a few brief seconds... until now. This recently discovered silent film footage features three sections: 1. The laying of the foundation of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Protection of the Holy Virgin (Palo Alto, California), which was conducted by St. John of San Francisco. 2. The blessing of the cupola and its installation conducted by various clergy. 3. The consecration of the church conducted by the holy hierarchs Metropolitan St Philaret, Archbishop St John and Bishop Nektary of Seattle, with numerous other clergy. GOCTV has corrected the speed of the footage so that the motion appears more natural. No other alterations have been made. When GOCTV wrote to the original publisher of this film and asked if we could share it here on our channel, we also asked where the footage was found. We received the this gracious reply: "I discovered an old tape recording while helping to clean someone's garage storage. I restored it and converted it to a digital format. Don't know the origin of it. And yes, feel free to share it. Thanks." The original publisher's channel can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR2NAU-9m9iV5CjjkmNPDJE7gDldwe1ej9-UYI8OsdH2V5EJZcc3cP1Kjhs&v=BQE1_iBiBGg&app=desktop#menu%C2%A0

Is the Orthodox Christian Church afraid of spreading disease through Her traditional way of worship?

This is not a GOCTV production, but we thought it so important that we had to upload it. The original upload and their channel can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSwYs6zB6TI&t=1531s

Archimandrite Pavlos discusses what happens to the soul of a man at the moment of his death. This program is in Greek with ENGLISH subtitles.

The Last Days of the Last Tsar was produced in 1993. It was Directed by Anatoly Ivanov. It is a sympathetic and bittersweet docudrama about the last days of Czar Nicholas II and his family. The time frame of the film is predominantly that from the Czar's abdication and exile to the brutal execution of the entire Romanov family. The filmmakers have made excellent use of rare documentary footage (and some familiar footage) and integrated it with staged re-enactments by actors. The words of the narration are often from the letters and writings of the Tsar and his Tsarina. (http://www.frozentears.org/Pages/Doc.html)

Fr. Pavlos Stratigeas discusses the issue of Demons, Damnation, Salvation, and Hell. This program has ENGLISH subtitles.

Archimandrite Pavlos Stratigeas offers a sermon for the the Feast Day of the Dormition of the Holy Theotokos. This sermon was given at the Cathedral of St. Markella in Astoria, NY. in 1988. This program is in Greek with ENGLISH subtitles.