First public screening of the documentary about the life, personality and work of Archbishop Stylianos of blessed memory; a gift from the local Church to the Christ-loving flock and all those who loved the great former Hierarch. An outstanding documentary produced by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. The documentary has English subtitles.
A number of families received an amazing Christmas gift this year in Romania. Through the efforts of Fr. Dan Damaschin, a priest of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Iași, housing was purchased for 15 financially struggling families. Those living in villages were each given a house, and those in the city were each given an…
President of Montenegro, Milo Djukanović, sent the adopted laws back to the Parliament, including the Law on Freedom of Religion, for reconsideration. The reason for that, as he states, is the open issue of quorum at the session at which those laws were adopted, as well as the legal issue of the mandate of the…
The Metropolitanate of Zagreb-Ljubljana calls upon all people of goodwill, who want and can, to help the victims of the earthquakes that stroke the Croatian cities of Petrinja, Sisak and Glina on December 28 and 29. Donations can be paid to the following account: Serbian Orthodox Church in Croatia, Diocese of Zagreb-Ljubljana Sberbank d.d. Varšavska…
His Grace Bishop Joanikije of Budimye-Niksic and the Administrator of Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral and Their Graces Bishops Jovan of Slavonia and Kirilo of Buenos Aires and South America celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Cetinje Monastery on 2 January 2021. During the Liturgy Bishop Joanikije ordained hieromonk of Cetinje Monastery Justin…
His Grace Bishop Jovan of Slavonia celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of The Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple in Gornji Ostrog on 1 January 2021, on the feast day of Saint Boniface of Tarsus. The Bishop was concelebrated by protopresbyter-staurophor Dragan Krusic, parish priest of Niksic, and a…
John, Bishop of Caracas and South America has issued his Nativity Epistle. The Epistle reads: But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons (Gal. 4. 4-5)….
The established annual memorial service for the departed Fathers, memorable Patriarchs of Jerusalem, Archbishops, Hieromonks and Monks and Nuns was held on Sunday, 21 December 2020 / 3 January 2021, Sunday before the Nativity of Christ, after the Divine Liturgy at the Catholicon of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The service was officiated by…
On Thursday, 18/31 December 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of our Father among the Saints Modestos, Patriarch of Jerusalem. On this feast, the Church, and especially the Church of Jerusalem commemorates that Saint Modestos was ordained Patriarch of Jerusalem right after the destruction of Palestine by the Persians in A.D. 614. During this Persian…