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180 | Christos Kakalis www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/1, 173–190 four A4 sheets (as shown on the stapling at the upper left). Handwritten notes by the Archimandrite John Maitland Moir open the instructions, followed by pieces of copied liturgical books in different languages (Greek, Slavonic and English). The pieces have been hand cut and glued on the paper without atten- tion to their visual/aesthetic impression, but in accurate liturgical order. The gaps between the glued cut-out pieces, given in black when photocopied, testi- fy to the physical effort that was invested in making the document. The clarity in the instructions (expressed in the handwritten bridges between the pieces) and ritual order testify to the mental effort invested in collating the parts into a whole. The materiality of this physical-mental care, condensed in four A4 pag- es, makes us ask about the reasons for such a complex liturgical performance and about its organic development, and also how it was related to the specific liturgical space-time and linked to the normative attunement of the typikon. Three priests-in-charge have had opportunity to develop the parish, making decisions about the spaces to be used as well as the order and character of the services.10 While this article is not a chronological narrative of the parish, some indicative information is necessary at this point. Its founder, the priest John Sotnikov, was born in Russia11 in 1905 and arrived in Great Britain as a soldier with Polish forces, which were disbanded in October 1946. In 1984 the Archimandrite John Maitland Moir, who was born in Scotland in 1924 and was received into the Orthodox Church in 1981, became the priest-in-charge. After his death in 2013, Archimandrite Father Raphael Pavouris, who had joined the community as a priest in 2004, became the priest-in-charge. In 2007 Archi- mandrite Avraamy Neyman (British of Polish origin and Orthodox of Russian tradition) came to the parish and a British convert, Father Luke Jeffery, was ordained a deacon in 2008 and then a priest in 2015. Father Antonios, a Greek immigrant, was ordained a deacon in July 2018, having been a parishioner for nine years, and then a priest in 2020. The multinational background of the clergy reflects the demographics of the congregation. The Edinburgh congregation was very small at the beginning. For several years, the services were held in Dean Parish Church. In the 1970s Father John Sotnikov started using a side chapel of the Scottish Episcopalian Church of St Michael and All Saints at Tollcross. Two Liturgies were held each month in the city and additional Liturgies were held further afield. Father Sotnikov had 10 The priest John Raffan was priest-in-charge for a short period in 2013 but did not have opportunity to contribute to the development of the parish. 11 Born in Vilnius, now in Lithuania, which was then in Russia and was later occupied by Poland.