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The '''Brotherhood of St. PhotiosPhotius''' was an association of emigre Orthodox theologians, intellectuals, and artists in Paris, France during the decades following the Bolshevik takeover, in 1917, of the government of Russia. The group usually met informally, meeting weekly in the homes of the various members.
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The membership of the Brotherhood included many of the members of the Russian intelligentsia in France and included such people as: the [[theologian]] [[Vladimir Lossky|Vladimir Nikolaevich Lossky]], the canonist [[Jean-Nectaire (Kovalevsky) of Saint-Denis|Evgraf Kovalevsky]], the liturgist Vsevolod Palashkovsky, the choir director Maxim Kovalevsky, and the iconographers [[George Ivanovich Krug]] and [[Leonid Alexandrovich Ouspensky]].
At that time the Brotherhood of St. Photios Photius played an important role in the life of the emigre Russian Orthodox Church in France. Also, the overall work of the Brotherhood was enriched by contacts with the Moscow Patriarchate that led to the formation of Patriarchal [[parish]]es. These contacts led to the formation of the Exarchate of the Moscow Patriarchate when a [[schism]] in 1931 divided the Russian communities in Western Europe.
Members of the Brotherhood also played a leading role in clarifying the issue and defending the Church’s doctrinal integrity, when the Russian community became divided over the question of sophiology and the [[heresy]] [[sophianism]], through the recovery of the Patristic spirit of the Church, and the re-assertion of the traditional place of the [[Eucharist]] and the [[Divine Liturgy|Liturgy]] in the life of the community.
