Abba Seraphim lectures on British Orthodox History (video)

At the invitation of the Oxford University Orthodox Christian Student Society, Abba Seraphim gave a talk on "The Orthodox Heritage of Pre-Schism Britain" at Trinity College, Oxford, on 17 November. He began by pointing out that as a Metropolitan of the Alexandrian Patriarchate, within the Coptic and Oriental Orthodox traditions, the Great Schism of 1054 might seem to be somewhat beyond his remit, as it was a schism between two Chalcedonian churches which had been separated from that portion of the Orthodox Church for centuries. However, as an Englishman with canonical responsibility for a community of British Orthodox congregations he had a keen interest in Britain's Orthodox heritage and what we may be learnt from it.