Ironically, the first new film released in Soviet Russia did not exactly fit this mold: this was Father Sergius, a religious film completed during the last weeks of the Russian Empire but not yet exhibited.

* The main character of Tolstoy's short story " Father Sergius " is a Russian nobleman who turns to a solitary religious life and becomes a hermit after he learns that his fiancee was a discarded mistress of the czar.

He married Juliana Osorguine in 1943, before completing his theological studies at the Orthodox Theological Institute of St. Sergius in Paris ( where he studied with the noted Russian theologian, Father Sergei Bulgakov, amongst others ) and was ordained a priest in 1946.

Ivan Mozzhukhin as Father Sergius in Yakov Protazanov's Father Sergius ( film ) | 1917 film.

Ironically, the last significant Russian film completed, in 1917, Father Sergius would become the first new film release a year later, in the new country of the Soviets.

Ivan Mozzhukhin as the title character in Yakov Protazanov's 1917 film, Father Sergius ( film ) | Father Sergius.

Father Sergius discovers he is still weak and in order to protect himself, cuts off his own finger.

Father Sergius ' reputation for holiness grows.

Yet Father Sergius is profoundly aware of his inability to attain a true faith.

* Father Sergius, full text in various formats

* Full text of Father Sergius in the original Russian

* Translation of Father Sergius in OnlineLiterature. com

* Father Sergius audiobook at librivox

Ivan Mozzhukhin as Father Sergius ( film ) | Father Sergius in the 1917 film.

* Father Sergius ( 1917 )

In the ancient Greek religion, Zeus ( Ancient Greek:, Zeús ; Modern Greek: Δίας, Días ) is the " Father of Gods and men " (, patḕr andrōn te theōn te ) who rules the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father rules the family.

The lowest level of organization, which normally would be a single ROC building and its attendees, headed by a priest who acts as Father superior (, nastoyatel ), constitute a parish (, prihod ).

Ptolemy Neos Dionysos Theos Philopator Theos Philadelphos ( 117 – 51 BC ;, spoken Ptolemaios Néos Diónusos Theós Philopátōr Theós Philádelphos ≈ New Dionysus, God Beloved of his Father, God Beloved of his Brother ), more commonly known as " Auletes " (, Aulētḗs = the Flutist ) or " Nothos " (, Nóthos = the Bastard ), was an Egyptian king of Macedonian descent.

Nestor Ivanovych Makhno or Bat ' ko (" Father ") Makhno (, ; October 26, 1888 ( N. S. November 8 ) – July 6, 1934 ) was a Ukrainian anarcho-communist revolutionary and the commander of an independent anarchist army in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War.

Le Père Goriot (, Old Goriot or Father Goriot ) is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac ( 1799 – 1850 ), included in the Scènes de la vie Parisienne section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.

Le Père Duchesne (, Old Man Duchesne or Father Duchesne ) was an extreme radical newspaper during the French Revolution, edited by Jacques Hébert, who published 385 issues from September 1790 until eleven days before his death by guillotine, which took place on March 24, 1794.

Bogyoke ( General ) Aung San (, ); 13 February 1915 – 19 July 1947 ) was a Burmese revolutionary, nationalist, founder of the modern Burmese army ( Tatmadaw ), and considered to be the Father of modern-day Burma.

Arabic-speaking Christians sometimes use the word Basmala () to refer to the Christian liturgical formula " In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit " (, ), from Matthew 28: 19.

Bābak Khorram-Din ( Formally known as " Pāpak " meaning " Young Father ") (, alternative spelling: Bābak Xorramdin ; 795, according to some other sources 798 — January 838 ) was one of the main PersianArmenian historian Vardan Areweltsʻi, ca.

Père Noël (, " Father Christmas " or " Old Christmas "), sometimes called Papa Noël (" Daddy Christmas "), is a legendary gift-giver during Christmas in France and French-speaking areas, identified with Father Christmas or Santa Claus in English speaking territories.

* Father Dowling Mysteries .... Sean McAllister (, 1990 )

Abū Lahab (, meaning Father of Flame ) ( died ca.

A man must be able to say, `` Father, I have sinned '', or there is no hope for him.

`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!

The Roman Catholic Church has excommunicated one of its priests, Father Feeney, for insisting that there is no salvation outside the visible church.

`` Father, is that you ''??

* Father Paneloux: Father Paneloux is a learned, well-respected Jesuit priest.

In contrast to the humanist beliefs of Rieux, Rambert, and Tarrou, the religious perspective is given in the sermons of the stern Jesuit priest, Father Paneloux.

abate ), as commonly used in the Catholic Church on the European continent, is the equivalent of the English " Father " ( parallel etymology ), being loosely applied to all who have received the tonsure.

* Atomic Dog, a song that is popular world wide ; written and performed by Our Father Who Art of Funk ; " George Clinton " from Parliament and the Funkadelics

The Arian concept of Christ is that the Son of God did not always exist, but was created by — and is therefore distinct from — God the Father.

This belief is grounded in the Gospel of John passage “ You heard me say, ‘ I am going away and I am coming back to you .’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

The Nicene Creed's central term, used to describe the relationship between the Father and the Son, is Homoousios (), or Consubstantiality, meaning " of the same substance " or " of one being ".

It is all that subsists by itself and which has not its being in another, God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit all being uncreated.

In the system described by Irenaeus, " the Unbegotten Father " is the progenitor of Nous, and from Nous Logos, from Logos Phronesis, from Phronesis Sophia and Dynamis, from Sophia and Dynamis principalities, powers, and angels, the last of whom create " the first heaven.

Abijah ( אביה ' aḆiYaH ) or Abiah or Abia, modern Hebrew Aviya, is a Biblical unisex name that means " my Father is Yahweh ".

# Abijah ( king ) of the Kingdom of Judah, also known as Abijam ( אבים ' aḄiYaM " My Father is Yam "), who was son of Rehoboam and succeeded him on the throne of Judah.

* Santa Claus also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas and simply " Santa ", is a figure with legendary, mythical, historical and folkloric origins who, in many western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24.

In formal documents, the Archbishop of Canterbury is referred to as " The Most Reverend Father in God, Forenames, by Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan ".

The Latin reads: " The Father is God, The Son is God, The Holy Spirit is God ; God is the Father, God is the Son, God is the Holy Spirit ; The Father is not the Son, The Son is not the Father, The Father is not the Holy Spirit, The Holy Spirit is not the Father, The Son is not the Holy Spirit, The Holy Spirit is not the Son.