The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week granted an interview to the Serbian newspaper «Politika». Among others, the Ecumenical Patriarch emphasized that «…whatever the Ecumenical Patriarchate is and holds, it owes to the Church. We are not a self-made entity, but an existence that arose with the grace of…

Members of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod on Wednesday elected three new Metropolitans for a same-number of Metropolises, during the second day of the top ecclesiastical body’s extraordinary sessions. One of the elections, in fact, witnessed a recount, a subsequent tie and, finally, a legal opinion in order to fill the…

  The March 2019 issue of ‘The Good to Know’ online magazine of the Basilica News Agency is now available for download. This project initially started in 2017 was named ‘The Basilica monthly review,’ and was published at the beginning of every month until its rebranding this year. What you are about to look through…

Divine Liturgy was served by all of the parish priests: Archpriests Darko Spasojevic and Dobrivoje Milunovic and Priest Nikolaj Kostur. S.S.S. Branko Radichevich Choir, directed by Jelena Stojakovic, sang responses at the liturgy. Also, many servers participated in the Altar. After the Prayer behind the Ambo, the clergy, servers and a large number of children…

Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan Porfirije of Zagreb-Ljubljana visited the President of the Government of Republic of Croatia Mr. Andrej Plenkovic at Banski Dvori in Zagreb on 18 March 2019. Prime Minister Plenkovic and Metropolitan Porfirije expressed a desire to continue dialogue and partnership between representatives of the Government and State institutions with representatives of Churches and…

  The state is on the side of the church that supports it, and therefore there’s nothing wrong in it obliging its officials to influence parishes, says Philaret Denisenko, the ideological leader of the Ukrainian autocephaly movement and “Honorary Patriarch” of the new schismatic church. “The state contributes—it’s a fact,” Philaret said in a recent…

A word from Met. Tikhon of the OCA in the Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral, San Francisco, California In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. My dear brothers and sisters in Christ: We gather this evening to celebrate the Sunday of Orthodoxy and to pray together at this…

Persecution and the seizures of its churches is making the canonical Church in Ukraine only stronger, said His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine to the ambassadors of Orthodox countries on the Feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy… On March 17, 2019, the day of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry…

  In Athens on Tuesday, a closely watch permanent Holy Synod meeting convened immediately after a Divine Liturgy. Church hierarchs have the government’s various proposals and demands for changes in Church-state relations in the predominately Christian Orthodox nation on their agenda. In a brief comment, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos II,…