April Session of the Orthodox Church of Greece Permanent Holy Synod
Communiqué of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece following its April 3rd meeting.
Communiqué of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece following its April 3rd meeting.
March 24 (old calendar) / April 6 (new) Great Lent Oil and wine allowed Forefeast of the Annunciation Because of the Forefeast of the Annunciation this Saturday the service for the departed is not conducted. Ven. Zachariah the Recluse. St. Artemius (Artemon), Bishop of Seleucia (1st-2nd c.). Ven. Zachariah, Ascetic, of the Kiev Caves (Far Caves—13th-14th c.). Martyrs Stephen and Peter of Kazan’ (1552). St. James (Jacob, Iago) the Confessor,
April 6 Great Lent Oil and wine allowed Fourth Saturday of Lent — Memorial Saturday. St. Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (582). St. Methodius, Equal-to-the-Apostles, Archbishop of Moravia and Enlightener of the Slavs (885). St. Platonida (Platonis) of Nisibis (Syria—308). 120 Martyrs of Persia (344-347). Martyrs Jeremiah and Archilias the Presbyter (3rd c.). Ven. Gregory the Byzantine (1308). Monk Martyr Gennadius of Dionysiou (Mt. Athos—1818). Saint Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople Saint
Repose of Father Jean Boboc, the first dean of the Dumitru Stăniloae Center.
Mgr Jean de Charioupolis, a accordé à Georges Farias (iconographe) pour RCF en Normandie une interview sur le thème « Le jeûne et la fin du carême ».
« Le Saint-Synode de l’Église orthodoxe d’Ukraine, lors de sa session du 3 avril 2019 a examiné la situation de la vie ecclésiale de l’Ukraine et l’Orthodoxie mondiale après l’octroi anti-canonique du Tomos d’autocéphalie de la nouvelle « Église orthodoxe d’Ukraine » par le Patriarcat de Constantinople et déclare ce qui suit :
The Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church at its April 3, 2019 session discussed the prevailing situation Ukrainian church life as well as in world Orthodoxy that has eventuated following the anticanonical granting of the Tomos of Autocephaly for the newly created “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” (“OCU”), and hereby declares the following:
A book published in French on Father Amphilochios Makris, canonized in 2018