The newly elected Metropolitan of Montenegro & the Littoral, His Eminence Joanikije II, this week received, in separate meetings, the ambassadors of Bulgaria and Russia accredited to the Adriatic country. His Eminence received the envoys at the historic Monastery of Ce-TIN-ech. Both ambassadors conveyed the congratulations from their respective governments for his election to the…

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, on Tuesday participated in events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the then Soviet Union, what is known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War. The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church laid a wreath at the Eternal Flame near the Kremlin…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week received at the Patriarchate the Grand Protosyncellus Theodoros, whom he congratulated on his election as a professor at the Higher Patriarchal Ecclesiastical Academy of Crete. In a related development, His All Holiness, along with the Synodal Hierarchs, travelled to the Halki Seminary on…

  The Greek government’s Cabinet convened in a virtual manner on Wednesday morning, chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. One of the items on the voluminous agenda was a recommendation by the relevant foreign minister regarding the annual endowment allocated by the Greek state to the Monasteries on the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos,…

  The Church today venerates the memory of Agrippina the Martyr of Rome. Today is also the feast day of the Holy Martyrs Aristocleus the Priest, Demetrius the Deacon and Athanasius the Reader.

On Tuesday 9/22 June 2021, the graduates and the other students of the Patriarchal School of Zion, with Archimandrite Mattheos and other staff members of the School, were received by H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos. The students thanked His Beatitude for the education and the boarding school care that was offered by…

On Monday 8/21 June 2021, the feast of the Monday of the Holy Spirit was celebrated at the Church of the Holy Trinity of the Russian MISSIA of the Russian Patriarchate, which is located in new Jerusalem, not very far from the northwest side of New Gate. The Divine Liturgy was officiated by H.H.B. our…

On Monday, 8/21 June 2021, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the Holy Spirit. On this day the Church honours and worships the third Person of the Holy Trinity, the Comforter, especially because He was sent by the Son through the Father and inspired the Holy Disciples and Apostles, making them from former “fishermen” to…

On June 22, 2021, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, met with H. E. Johannes Eigner, ambassador of the Republic of Austria to the Russian Federation, who is completing his diplomatic service in Moscow. The meeting took place at the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute…