Sessions of the Synaxis – or assembly – of the Hierarchy of the Ecumenical Throne, which took place this week in Constantinople, concluded on Friday. On Thursday, the Archbishop of Canada, His Eminence Sotirios, presented recommendations regarding the spread of the Gospel in the 21st century. During the afternoon session, the Archbishop of America, His…

The Church today venerates the memory of Anthimos, Bishop of Nicomedea. Today is also the feast day of Holy Father Theoctistus.

Dear elementary school pupils, dear high school students, dear students, parents and teachers, On Saturday, September 4, starting at 9 am in the Memorial Cathedral church of St. Sava in the Vracar district, we will celebrate the Divine Liturgy and the invocation of the Holy Spirit for a successful and God-blessed beginning of the new…

Holy Transfiguration Cathedral at Moscow’s Novospassky Monastery is set to be restored by 2023. The church is the second largest in Moscow after the Dormition Cathedral in the Kremlin, and is well-known for serving as the Romanov family vault for several centuries. The monastery itself long enjoyed the favor of the representatives of the Romanov…

Thousands of dollars were raised at a recent charity event at the administration of the Stara Zagora Diocese of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. The local hierarch, His Eminence Metropolitan Cyprian, called upon all the faithful to donate towards the local oncology center in lieu of gifts for his name’s day on Tuesday. On that evening,…

The primate of the Polish Orthodox Church blessed this week a new wing in an Orthodox nursing home that is fully equipped with modern medical and therapeutic equipment. His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland visited and blessed the Church facility in the village of Trześcianka in northeastern Poland on Wednesday, opening the…

Special Byzantine chant concerts will be offered throughout America for two weeks this month. At the invitation of His Eminence Metropolitan Nicolae of the Americas of the Romanian Orthodox Church, members of the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest’s Tronos Choir will give Byzantine music concerts in a number of parishes of the Romanian Archdiocese of the…

September 2, 2021 This week’s “How-to” Green Your Parish episode features Rev. Jim Kordaris “Creation and Stewardship” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyOLGbHim3Q The “How-to” Green Your Parish series is an initiative of the Department of Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations. New episodes will be released weekly featuring ideas and ways to introduce creation care and sustainability in your parish…

On September 2, 2021, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America delivered a presentation to the Synaxis of Hierarchs of the Ecumenical Throne concerning the foundation and progress of the “Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Foundation” which to date has raised over 15 million dollars. For more information regarding the Foundation, please visit https://bartholomew.foundation/ goarch.org