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Holy Brittania

The Rev’d Andrei Petrine has recently launched a new initiative. He
describes its ethos and aims:

“Since the beginning of my work as the Pilgrimage Secretary for
the AECA I have been dreaming and praying about sharing the beauty
and richness of Britain’s ancient history and its Christian spirituality
with the Russian-speaking world. Now I am happy to announce the
creation of ‘Holy Britannia’ – a Christian Pilgrimage Mission set up to
ful?l this dream. At the moment this is the ?rst and only o?cially regis-
tered Christian company specialising in providing tours for Russian-
speakers to the British Isles. My vision is to introduce and enrich the
understanding of historic Christianity in Britain and in doing so, help
visitors to understand their own faith more deeply and profoundly in
the contexts of historical Christianity. Holy Britannia o?er a unique op-
portunity to visit important historical places of worship and monu-
ments, to visit local Orthodox centres, make friends with local Chris-
tians and to attend their services, to hear their prayers and music, to
worship at the holy sites, and of course, to enjoy a restful time in this
wonderful country. While providing all necessary preparation for the
pilgrimages: o?cial invitations, itinerary, and Christian guides, we en-
courage parish priests to be spiritual leaders of their own groups and to
facilitate orthodox ‘spirit’ of the pilgrimage. This work has been blessed
by the Lord Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, and is undertaken in
connection with the AECA. In addition to this, my prayers and deepest
wish is that Holy Britannia will serve well to provide a place of mean-
ingful dialogue and understanding between Orthodox and Anglican be-
lievers. More information (mainly in Russian) could be found on our
website: www.holybritannia.com or Facebook.”

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