For a thorough commentary, consult the comments in the LaTeX files for the 2025 BCP.

However, in summary, the following changes were made.

The Daily Office Lectionary has been adjusted to accommodate the Vicariate’s additional Festivals in the Temporale.

The Minor Hours have been added.

The Angelic Salutation has been restored to the Fore-Office.

The Marian Anthems have been restored.

A few Prayers have been removed and added.

The Bidding Prayer has been replaced with one from the 16th century.

The Intercession of the Saints have been restored to the Litany.

The Office of th Dead has been restored, sourcing from the Monasticum Breviarium.

The Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, Preparation & Thanksgiving for Holy Communion have been added.

The From the Anglican Missal tradition, the asperges, Prayers at the Foot of the Altar, and other elements of the Holy Communion have been added.

The General Confession & Prayer of Humble Access have been restored to their original placement before the Distribution of Holy Communion.

The Invocation has been replaced with the Invocation from the 1929 Scottish Book of Common Prayer.

The Festivals from the 2026 Ordo, II Double or higher, have been added, along with the Festival of Our Lady of Walsingham.

The BCP was typeset using LaTeX. You can see the project on GitHub.

Please feel free to contact us! Or, even better, submit a pull request on GitHub!

The Anglican tradition was brought into the Orthodox Church in a sort of piecemeal manner, through various service books for different rites.

This is due to the history of its reception. As opposed to what St. Tikhon envisioned (the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America being received wholly into the Orthodox Church), later on, various parishes individually were received into the Orthodox Church.

But the chief jewel of the Anglican tradition is the Book of Common Prayer. So, the offer from the Russian Synod for an Orthodox BCP to be published and used, if only someone would compile and publish it, remained on the table for over a century.

In that time, concepts of what an Orthodox BCP could look like were published, chiefly thebook published by Lancelot Andrewes Press. However, it rightly recognises in its introduction that they did not seek ecclesiastical approbation.

So, the 2025 Proposed Book of Common Prayer represents the first first attempt to truly take up the Church on her offer, learning from the how the services are being celebrated in the Vicariate.