You Cannot Clone a Shepherd: Metropolitan Anthony Bloom and the Challenge of Succession
Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh
Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of the Sourozh Diocese of the Russian Church (UK) passed away on this day in 2003.
Metropolitan Anthony’s book School for Prayer in the Russian translation was one of the first Christian books that I read in Samizdat in the late 1980s. I remember attending a public meeting with him somewhere in Moscow at about the same time. …
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