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Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople honored the memory of his predecessor Patriarch Gregory V
On the morning of Wednesday, April 10, 2019, as every year, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew lit a candle and put ...
A 20th century hieromartyr will be canonized by the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia
On June 9, the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia will canonize a new martyr, Father Stanislav Nasadil, killed in 1941by Croatian Ustashi.
Metropolitan Joasaph of the new autocephalous Church of Ukraine: « I cannot keep silent!”
An open letter from Metropolitan Joasaph (Shibaev) of Belgorod and Oboiansk (new autocephalous Church of Ukraine) with the title "I cannot keep silent!" was published on April 3rd, on the "Kyiv Patriarchate" official website, with the blessing of the "honorary patriarch" Filaret (Denisenko).
The Russian Orthodox Church takes steps to address family problems of married clergy
Due to difficulties experienced by some married priests in their family life, the following decisions were taken at the April 4, 2019 session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The patriarch of Constantinople went to Adrianopolis (Edirne) for the Akathist service
On Friday, April 5, Patriarch Bartholomew celebrated the 4th stanza of the Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God, in Saints Constantine and Helen church, in the Bulgarian community of Adrianopolis (Edirne), in Turkey.
« The Church of Greece cannot contest the Ukrainian autocephaly »
His Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos, considered as one of the Orthodox Church’s foremost theologians today, published the letter he sent to the Church of Greece Holy Synod, in which he expresses his views on how the Church of Greece should respond to the decisions made by Patriarchate Bartholomew in Ukraine.
Communiqué of the Polish Orthodox Church Assembly of Bishops on Ukrainian autocephaly
The Polish Orthodox Church Assembly of Bishops met on April 2. The meeting was chaired by Metropolitan Sawa. They issued the following statement on Ukrainian autocephaly (the words in bold are in bold in the original).
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.
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