Metropolitan of Nafpaktos: Some Hierarchs act as if there is no Holy Synod
On the occasion of the extension of the restrictive measures that also extend to the Church, as well as of the forthcoming session of the Standing ...
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The spiritual origin, nature, and meaning of the current pandemic. An interview with Jean-Claude ...
Jean-Claude Larchet, you are one of the first to have developed a theological reflection on disease, suffering, medicine. Your book “The Theology o...
Orthodox Metropolis of Korea: ‘Prayer, whether it is done in the Church or in our home or in any ...
The Orthodox Metropolis of Korea (Ecumenical Patriarchate) has issued the following Encyclical urging the faithful to pray with due reverence and c...
The Orthodox Metropolis of Korea (Ecumenical Patriarchate) has issued the following Encyclical urging the faithful to pray with due reverence and c...
Appeal of the First Hierarch to the God-Loving Flock, in Connection with the Coronavirus Pandemic
Dear in the Lord fathers, brothers, and sisters! I sincerely greet you with the very warmest well-wishes for the blessings of God, good health, spi...
Dear in the Lord fathers, brothers, and sisters! I sincerely greet you with the very warmest well-wishes for the blessings of God, good health, spi...
Statement of the ACOB-USA Executive Committee Concerning Holy Week and Pascha (Easter)
Friday, April 03, 2020 PDF Version To the Clergy and Faithful Orthodox Christians of the United States of America: During this period of crisis, we...
Friday, April 03, 2020 PDF Version To the Clergy and Faithful Orthodox Christians of the United States of America: During this period of crisis, we...
Greek Church petitions to be allowed to serve Liturgy, lawyers seeking to annul order to ban Chur...
Although the Greek Orthodox Church earlier agreed to limit its services to just one-hour Divine Liturgies on Sundays, the state was not content, an...
Metropolitan John Zizioulas: “The Church without the Eucharist Is No Longer the Church”
We wish to hear your views on the current situation, since your theology plays a great role in the present circumstances. Metropolitan John: M...
Assembly of Bishops USA Announces COVID-19 Resource Center for Orthodox Christians
The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the USA announces an online resource center for clergy and faithful during the COVID-19 pandemic. The...
Georgian hierarch consecrates hospital serving as coronavirus quarantine zone
The Giorgi Abramishvili Military Hospital of the Ministry of Defense of Georgia in the city of Gori was declared a quarantine zone on March 2 as pa...
Communique of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church
“On the third week of Great Lent (Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross) the Divine Liturgy was served in all churches of the Serbian Or...
Earthquake damaged the Zagreb Orthodox Cathedral Church
In the powerful earthquake that struck Zagreb on March 22, 202, the capital city of Croatia, the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord at the C...
Urgent encyclical by Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople regarding Covid-19 pandemic
As this Coronavirus crisis continues to spread and intensify on a global scale, the Ecumenical Patriarchate is monitoring the situation with an urg...
Limited Church services without worshippers in Albania’s Orthodox cathedrals, chapels
The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, in similar fashion with other Orthodox Churches around the region, announced that cathedrals and chap...
Notice Regarding Ongoing Provision of Divine Services in Light of Various Government Restrictions...
In several portions of our Diocesan territory (Western Europe), temporary local government restrictions have been put in place that prevent group g...
Orthodox Church in Slovakia will be sanctioned if it continues to hold services amidst coronaviru...
Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini is ready to impose sanctions upon the Orthodox Church in the country if it does not comply with measures tak...
Two new vicar bishops for the Archdiocese of Orthodox Churches of Russian Tradition in Western Eu...
The Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate has just approved the election by the general assembly of the Archdiocese of Orthodox churches of Russian...
Church of Greece Holy Synod cites precautions in face of coronavirus crisis
The Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece convened on Monday, with sessions to continue until Wednesday, amid growing concerns ...
Archbishop Elpidophoros Announces the Creation of a New Vicariate in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese
On Monday, March 9, 2020, following approval of the Mother Church of Constantinople last November after the request of the Holy Eparchial Synod, Hi...
Encyclical for the Sunday of Orthodoxy
Thursday, March 05, 2020 Sunday of Orthodoxy 2020 “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened,and the angels of God ascending and ...
A Message from the Diocesan Bishop Regarding Church Life and the Coronavirus
“To the faithful and beloved children of this God-preserved Diocese! As we enter now fully into this lenten period leading to the bright Resu...
Patriarch of Serbia Irinej at the State Department
Since Mr. Brownback was received last year by His Holiness Patriarch at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade, the meeting began with the memory of ...
Metropolitan Hilarion: Absence of particular Churches from Amman will not make the meeting less s...
n anticipation of the meeting of heads and representatives of Local Orthodox Churches in the capital city of Jordan, Metropolitan Hilarion, head of...
Final press release from the Amman meeting
Press Release – 26 February 2020 – Amman, Jordan Issued on behalf of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem Following the initiative for dialogue and reconc...
Metropolitan Hilarion: We hope that the meeting in Amman will make the beginning of other similar...
Heads and representatives of Local Orthodox Churches are to meet next week in Amman on the initiative of Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem. In an e...
A Statement by the Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East
Balamand, February 22, 2020 Following the generous invitation of His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem to His Beatitude Patriarch Joh...
Communiqué from the office of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church regarding the invit...
“In connection with the letters received from His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, in which he sent an invitation to particip...
Metropolitan Emmanuel of France in Saudi Arabia
Metropolitan Emmanuel of France traveled to Riyadh, at the invitation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in order to chair the Board of Directors of t...
Louvre Bulgarian Art Exhibit, Canceled
The decision came after an escalation of misunderstandings involving the Louvre Museum and The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. The Syn...
Czech-slovak Church Canonizes New Martyrs
On October 10, the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia resolved to canonize a number of 20th-century New Martyrs. The...
Oca consecrates New Bishop as Vicar for Romanian Episcopate
Just a few days after consecrating Archimandrite Alexis (Trader) as Bishop of Bethesda at St. Nicholas Cathedral in Washington, D.C., His...
Chinese Representation Church in Moscow Serves Moleben for Deliverance from Coronavirus
A moleben prayer service for deliverance from the coronavirus epidemic was recently held at the Church of St. Nicholas in Moscow, which serves as t...
Trailer for New St. Joseph the Hesychast Documentary with Jonathan Jackson Published Online (+vid...
A documentary on one of the greatest saints of the 20th century will soon be released. In the meantime, a trailer for the film, “Elder Joseph the H...
Antiochian Patriarchate responds to reports about kidnapped Bishops
The Antiochian Orthodox Church has issued an official statement on the recent reports concerning the fate of the two missing Syrian bishops, Boulos...
Feast of Three Holy Hierarchs no longer a School Holiday in Greece
The Three Holy Hierarchs—Sts. Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom—are the patron saints of schools and education for the O...
Metropolitan Tikhon (OCA) Sends Letter of Support to Patriarch Irinej
In a letter dated January 7, 2020, His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon addressed a letter to His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia concerning the ...
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The Letter of the Bishop of Eastern America to the President of the United States of America
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More than 10,000 Montenegrin Faithful Gather to Prayerfully Protect Their Churches
The Orthodox faithful of Montenegro continue to raise their voices against the scandalous new law that gives the state the authority to seize Churc...
Patriarche John X, Calling to form a rescue government that would to pull the country and the pe...
His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East of the Greek Orthodox Church, called to hurry in forming a Lebanese government. His Bea...
Press release from the Episcopal Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro
Following the promulgation of the law robbing the churches and ecclesiastical goods of the Orthodox Church in Montenegro, the members of the Episco...
