For the eighth consecutive year, dried lilies bloomed on an icon of the Theotokos in a Transcarpa...
For the eighth consecutive year, dried lilies bloomed again under the glass of the “Joy of all the afflicted” icon, in the church of Kr...
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2019 International Meeting of Orthodox Youth
In the past six years, several dioceses within the Romanian Patriarchate have organized the International Meeting of Orthodox Youth (with the Roman...
The “Kyiv Patriarchate” rejects the tomos of autocephaly
Filaret Denisenko, who has been at the head of the “Kyiv Patriarch” (KP) and the “Honorary Patriarch” of the “autocep...
Filaret Denisenko, who has been at the head of the “Kyiv Patriarch” (KP) and the “Honorary Patriarch” of the “autocep...
Contribution of Metropolitan Emmanuel of France at the Interfaith Conference on “Inter-rel...
From Interfaith and Inter-Civilization Cooperation to Human Solidarity His Eminence, Metropolitan Emmanuel of France June 19, 2019 Distinguished pa...
From Interfaith and Inter-Civilization Cooperation to Human Solidarity His Eminence, Metropolitan Emmanuel of France June 19, 2019 Distinguished pa...
Metropolitan Emmanuel of France didn’t know that one of his concelebrants in Kyiv belonged to the...
The director of the Ecumenical Patriarchate Office of Public Relations stated that Metropolitan Emmanuel was unaware that a priest from the unrecog...
The director of the Ecumenical Patriarchate Office of Public Relations stated that Metropolitan Emmanuel was unaware that a priest from the unrecog...
Comments by the Secretariat of the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission, on the letter sen...
On March 9, 2019, the Patriarchate of Constantinople published on their official website, a letter sent by His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew of Co...
Archimandrite Nektarios (Orthodox Church of Cyprus) visited parishes of Western Ukraine whose chu...
Archimandrite Nektarios (Bakopoulos), the Secretary of the Tamassos Diocese (Orthodox Church of Cyprus), paid a visit to the parishes of the Ukrain...
“President Đukanović tries to lead the Church”, says Metropolitan Amfilohije of Monte...
Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović demands that the Church does not interfere in politics, whereas he tries to become the head of the Church hims...
Metropolitan Nikitas elected as the new Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain
On June 12, 2019, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate unanimously elected his eminence Metropolitan Nikitas of the Dardanelles as the new...
Canonization of the Hieromartyr Stanislav Nasadil in Košice (Slovakia)
Priest Stanislav Nasadil was canonized on Sunday, June 9 by the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia.
Patriarch Bartholomew celebrated his namesday in Constantinople
On the occasion of Patriarch Bartholomew’s namesday, Great Vespers was served on June 10 at the Monastery of the Life-Giving Spring in Balikli. The...
New Latvian law: Orthodox hierarchs required to be Latvian citizenship, and to be residents in th...
On June 6, the Latvian Parliament unanimously voted for a new law: from now on, Orthodox hierarchs are required to be Latvian citizenship, and to b...
Conditions are not met for the Pope’s visit to Moscow
Regarding a possible visit of Pope Francis to Moscow, Metropolitan Hilarion stressed that the conditions are not met: “So far, it is not on the age...
Speech by the Patriarch Daniel of Romania on “Importance of Church-State cooperation in the...
On the occasion of the International Conference on Relations between State and religious denominations in the European Union, held at the Patriarch...
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk participated in the inauguration of the Museum of the Russia...
On May 28, the "Alexander Solzhenitsyn" Museum of the Russian Diaspora was inaugurated in Moscow.
Pope Francis visited the Patriarchate of Romania
Pope Francis visited Romania from May 31 to June 2, at the invitation of the Romanian President, state authorities, and the Roman Catholic Church i...
Statement by the Orthodox Bishops’ Conference of Benelux (CEOB-OBB)
After its June 4, 2019 meeting in Brussels, the Orthodox Bishops’ Conference of Benelux posted this official statement on their website:
Elder John of New Valaam canonized in Finland
Elder John of New Valaam’s canonization took place on Saturday, June 1st in the main church of the monastery.
New St. John of Shanghai church consecrated at St. Elisabeth Convent in Minsk
On June 2, Metropolitan Pavel of Minsk and Zaslavl, and retired Archbishop Mikhail (Donskov) (ROCOR), concelebrated the Divine Liturgy and consecra...
Message of Patriarch Daniel of Romania at the 8th East-West Symposium of New Testament Scholars
The 8th East-West Symposium of New Testament Scholars took place May 26-31, 2019 at the Holy Cross Socio-pastoral Center in Caraiman Monastery, Rom...
Pope Francis was received in Bucharest by Patriarch Daniel of Romania
The Pope's visit to Romania began in Bucharest with a meeting with Patriarch Daniel.
“Patriarch” Filaret of Kyiv and Metropolitan Epifaniy of the new Ukrainian Church acc...
On May 28, “Patriarch” Filaret, who according to the statutes of the new Ukrainian autocephalous Church, heads the diocese of Kyiv, ban...
Thousands of faithful protested against their churches being taken over by the new autocephalous ...
Thousands of faithful from the diocese of Chernivtsi-Bukovina (Ukrainian Orthodox Church - under Metropolitan Onufriy of Kyiv) took part in a prot...
Patriarch Irinej’s visit to Hungary
Patriarch Irinej of Serbia visited the Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Hungary from May 24-27, 2019, accompanied by Bishops Irinej of Bač...
Metropolitan Joasaph of Belgorod and Oboiansk (New Orthodox Church of Ukraine) protested against ...
"Patriarch" Filaret’s website published the following communiqué by Metropolitan Joasaph of Belgorod and Oboiansk, about the Greek bishop recently ...
“Those who do not accept the tomos refuse to be in the Orthodox autocephalous Church of Ukr...
“The text of the tomos, which laid the foundations of the new autocephalous Church [in Ukraine, TN], is not the result of negotiations betwee...
First consecration of a Greek bishop for the new Ukrainian Church
On Sunday, May 26 in St. Michael’s cathedral in Kyiv, Epiphanius Demetriou was consecrated as the new Bishop of Olbia. Up to this point, he was par...
The March for Life took place in Chişinău, led by bishops of the Orthodox Church of Moldova
On May 18, 2019, on the eve of International Day of Families and for the fifth time in a row, thousands of clergy and laity came from all over the ...
Interview with Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus about his mediation concerning the Ukrainian issue
Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus gave the following interview to the Greek agency Romfea during his recent stay in Athens.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s visit to Athens
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew went to the Archdiocese of Athens on May 22, where he was warmly welcomed by Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens.
Metropolitan Emmanuel of France Emmanuel (Ecumenical Patriarchate) visited “Patriarch”...
On the occasion of Metropolitan Epifaniy’s namesday, a delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate visited "Patriarch" Filaret of Kyiv.
A Serbian Orthodox teacher is being prosecuted by the Belgrade court for his positions in favor o...
Vladimir Dimitrijević, Ph.D. in philological sciences and high school teacher, known for his stance in favor of the traditional family, is the subj...
Communiqué of the Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church
The assembly of bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church took place May 9-18, 2019, at Žiča monastery, then in Belgrade. We publish here our translat...
A choir of 450 children sang the patriarchal liturgy in Christ the Savior Cathedral
On May 19, 2019, the 4th Sunday of Pascha, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow celebrated the Divine Liturgy in Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow.
Patriarch Daniel presented a series of concrete proposals to improve the current situation in Rom...
As part of the clergy conference in Bucharest and Ilfov, Patriarch Daniel presented a series of concrete proposals to improve the current situation...
The Serbian Orthodox Church decided to renew the dialogue with the Orthodox Church of Macedonia
And the Orthodox Church of Macedonia sent an "appeal" to the Holy Synod of the Constantinople Patriarchate, who are currently examining it. Yesterd...
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk thinks we should not attribute the victory of World War II t...
On May 11, 2019, as part of the program "The Church and the World" on the TV channel Russia 24, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, addressed, in...
The Russian Orthodox Church hopes Russian-speaking Ukrainians will cease to be “second clas...
The Russian Orthodox Church hopes the new Ukrainian president will fix his predecessor’s mistakes, notably by guaranteeing the rights of Russian-sp...
“I have not received any order! I am leaving for Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece to discuss th...
Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Cyprus gave an immediate response to recent press reports that Patriarch Bartholomew was opposed to Archbishop Anasta...
