St. Raphael aids the faithful to understand in what varied ways Orthodox Christians must resist the papal rewriting of history, erroneous interpretation of Scripture, and illusory and false promises.

In the years of our Lord 879-880, a council convened in Constantinople for the sake of restoring broken relations between East and West. Its decisions remain until today the  critical and obligatory basis for unity. 

This beautiful full-color edition includes the original Greek text composed by Dr. Haralambos Bousias on the left and an English translation on the right. The translation employs traditional, liturgical English and is set to meter so that it can be easily chanted.

Piercing, liberating, revealing, and strengthening are the words of the God-illumined Holy Fathers, balm to the soul and light to the mind. This is also true of the Grace-filled, wise and penetrating words of Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou.

This classic text, first printed in English in 1994 by St. Paul’s Monastery on the Holy Mountain of Athos, explains how the canons from the Ecumenical and Local Councils pertaining to the reception of converts were understood by the Kollyvades Fathers and Fr. Constantine Oikonomos, among the most important theologians of 18th-19th century Greece.