Stockholm, 22 April 2021 Dear Brothers and Fathers in Christ, As the coronavirus pandemic still exists, torments and subverts the day-to-day life so far, I contact you on the occasion of Holy Week, as this year, the sequences will not take place, like last year behind “closed doors,” but with special conditions and numerical limitations….

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The radio station of the Metropolis of Piraeus every Saturday and Sunday broadcasts, in Greek, the program “Sermons from Athos,” with spiritual lectures and homilies by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi. 

The Metropolitan Bishop of Dabar-Bosna, His Eminence Hrizostom, arrived at the historic monastery of Cetnije, in Montenegro, where he venerated the Holy Relics of St. Peter of Cetinje and John the Baptist. The hierarch later visited the seminary of St. Peter, where he was received by the bishop of Budimlje-Nikšić, His Grace Ioannicus, the Patriarchate…

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, this week received the president of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, as well as the Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, His Eminence Kirill. The meeting took place at the Patriarchal residence at the Danilov Monastery in Moscow.

An initiative spearheaded by Serbian President Alexander Vucic has led to a major donation by the Serbian State to the Holy Monastery of Hilandar, on Mount Athos. The donation will cover the complete restoration of the premises destroyed by fire at the monastery in March 2004. The blaze devastated approximately half of the walled complex….

Easter Holy Week and Easter Sunday will be observed and celebrated in Greece under specific, albeit loosened, public health restrictions due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. By all accounts, a compromise was reached between the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece and the country’s government, whereby Holy Easter Week services will end earlier in the evening;…

Today is the sixth Thursday of Great Lent. The Church today venerates the memory of St. Theodore of Sykeon.

His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch received His Excellency Jan Braathu, Head of the OSCE Mission to the Republic of Serbia, at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade, on April 19, 2021. Serbian Patriarch Porfirije during the meeting with Braathu emphasized the importance of interfaith dialogue as a way to achieve and preserve peaceful and harmonious coexistence,…