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I don't think you need a cathedral or any other building to pray for anything - go to your inner room. (Matthew 6:6, John 4:21-24)In Fatima, Portugal
There is a Catholic cathedral to pray for Russia.
Should there also be a Russian Orthodox cathedral
to pray for the European Union and the United States ?
we pray for the whole world every Liturgy, so no there shouldn’t.Should there also be a Russian Orthodox cathedral
to pray for the European Union and the United States ?
this is the Orthodox subforum, please know where you are before posting.I don't think you need a cathedral or any other building to pray for anything - go to your inner room. (Matthew 6:6, John 4:21-24)
Be blessed sister
You're right ... I didn't notice. Maybe you can explain from an Orthodox viewpoint what the idea / history is of having a cathedral for a specific praying purpose? I'm genuinely curious now .. Always good to learn something new.this is the Orthodox subforum, please know where you are before posting.
we don’t have cathedrals for specific purposes, aside from being where the bishop is.You're right ... I didn't notice. Maybe you can explain from an Orthodox viewpoint what the idea / history is of having a cathedral for a specific praying purpose? I'm genuinely curious now .. Always good to learn something new.
The OP is not Orthodox and the question she poses is nonsense from an Orthodox perspective. Much of what she posts is nonsense from any perspective.You're right ... I didn't notice. Maybe you can explain from an Orthodox viewpoint what the idea / history is of having a cathedral for a specific praying purpose? I'm genuinely curious now .. Always good to learn something new.
Incorrect.In Fatima, Portugal
There is a Catholic cathedral to pray for Russia.
Should there also be a Russian Orthodox cathedral
to pray for the European Union and the United States ?
Don’t cathedrals develop just as a matter of available space and size for a local ( usually metropolitan) community?
Yes, I have seen a house of worship designated as a cathedral and not where the bishop is based. Sadly ( circumstances wise) until recently, there was an OCA cathedral ( small scale) in my hometown of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. not where a bishop is directly based.Formally, strictly speaking, when a diocese is formed, the main church in that diocese where the bishop is based is the cathedral. Sometimes in Orthodoxy I have seen multiple churches in a diocese referred to as cathedrals; I would assume these are analogous to pro-cathedrals in the Roman Catholic tradition.
Also in Moscow St. Basil’s is usually called St. Basil’s Cathedral, but the main cathedral for a long time has been the Cathedral of the Holy Savior, and although some liturgies have been held in St. Basil’s since the downfall of the Soviet Union, it is still not regularly used (unfortunately, in my opinion).
I think it was because there were bishops in Wilkes-Barre.Sadly ( circumstances wise) until recently, there was an OCA cathedral ( small scale) in my hometown of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. not where a bishop is directly based.
I think it was because there were bishops in Wilkes-Barre.
I think it was because there were bishops in Wilkes-Barre.
Interesting, I might try to find out more.
My home parish, St. Mary, has an interesting history from the likes of St. Alexis ( Toth), St. Raphael ( Hawaweeny) to Aftimios Ofesh. My paternal grandparents were Orthodox and may have seen the saints as children and definitely saw Aftimios Ofesh as younger adults.an Antiochian parish
Metropolitan Herman was one I believeInteresting, I might try to find out more.
A fairly common misapprehension that 'cathedral' means 'big church'.
Yes, it is simply the place of the seat (kathedra) of the bishop.
The cathedral of Hong Kong (Greek) is a two roomed office in a skyscraper building.
Conversely, 'Westminster Abbey' is not a cathedral although stylistically it feels like one. For that matter, it isn't an Abbey either, but that's just an honorific (True, it was a cathedral for a couple of years in 1540, but that was to protect it from plunder).
It seems like the EP is addicted to stagnation.And it was a Benedictine Abbey before Henry VIII stole them with the Dissolution of the Monasteries Act.
By the way, did you know there was a Western Rite monastery on Mount Athos? It was called Amalfion, and I think it followed the rule of St. Benedict, and it persisted for a few centuries after the schism, doubtless inhabited by pious Western Christians who sought Orthodoxy.
I would love to see it rebuilt, but unlike Antioch, ROCOR and the Romanian and Polish churches, the Ecumenical Patriarchate is opposed to Western Rite Orthodoxy for some reason, but I don’t much care since they don’t even recognize the autocephalous status of my own jurisdiction (the OCA).
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