His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch received Her Excellency Julie Limberopoulos, the non-resident Ambassador of the Republic of Panama to the Republic of Serbia, at the Patriarchal Palace in Belgrade, on September 6, 2021. Besides current issues from the life of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the topic of conversation was the role of Patriarch Porfirije in…

His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, received His Excellency Georgios Diakofotakis, Ambassador of the Republic of Greece to the Republic of Serbia, at the Serbian Patriarchate on 7 September 2021. In a cordial and friendly conversation, Serbian Patriarch Porfirije emphasized that the Serbian Orthodox Church remembers with gratitude the fraternal solidarity and wholehearted help of the…

By Saint Photios the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople Today, the Virgin Mother is born from a barren mother and the palace is bedecked for the coming of the Lord Christ. Today, the bonds of sterility are broken and the gates of the Virgin are barred. Because, as the barren womb was dead for the purposes…

The film “Man of God”, starring Greek actor Aris Servetalis as St Nektarios of Aegina, has enjoyed the best opening of a movie in Greece and Cyprus since March last year, when the COVID pandemic began. In the first four days after its release on 26 August, the film that was shown in 117 cinemas…

On Sunday, September 5, the leavetaking of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos and the feast of the great pre-schism Western father St. Irenaeus of Lyons, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the crypt where St. Irenaeus and innumerable martyrs of Lyons are buried. The feast was celebrated by His Grace Bishop Irenei of…

A great spiritual event occurred in the Philippines this week, as a group of 12 men and women were baptized into Christ in His holy Orthodox Church in the waters of the West Philippine Sea. The dozen newly-illumined are all former members of a Monophysite church, reports the Diocese of the Philippines and Vietnam. The head…

The Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of Germany and 47 donors from the Romanian diaspora visited on Friday Romania’s most impoverished town, Negrești, in Vaslui county, where they offer monthly scholarships for 450 children. The financial support is offered through the eparchial Programme “Scholarships for the Poor Children of Moldavia”. “I was glad to meet many of…

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church sent a video message for the Clergy Conference of the two dioceses of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolis of the Americas, who met via videoconference on August 27-28, 2021. Solemn blessing for the Conference of Romanian Clergy in America: full text The online clergy conference, organized by…

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