The First Salutation to the Theotokos, the All-Holy Virgin Mary, will be celebrated today at all Orthodox places of worship around the world, the First Friday of Great Lent for 2021.  

His Grace Bishop Longin of New Gracanica-Midwestern America in canonical visit to parishes in Minnesota Serbs emigrated to Minnesota at the turn of the 20th century and settled in three highly industrialized areas.: The Iron Range, Duluth and the St. Paul-Minneapolis metropolitan area (The Тwin Cities). In all these regions, Serbs built their churches. In…

With the blessing of His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Porfirije and with the approval of the Ministry of Defense, representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church visited the Temporary COVID Hospital in Stark Arena in Belgrade on March 17, 2021 (photo gallery). Protopresbyter-staurophor Vladimir Vukasinovic, head of the Ruzica church; priest Zoran Kerezovic, priest at the Clinical…

On Sunday, March 14, 2021, His Grace Bishop Irinej of Eastern America, at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, in New York, with the concelebration of Protopresbyter Djokan Majstorovic, Presbyter Milan Dragovic and Protodeacon Milos Zdralic, served a memorial service at the grave of Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin. The Consul of Serbia in New York, Mrs. Olgica…

IN THE NAME OF THE ALL HOLY AND LIFEGIVING TRINITY! We, the clergy, monastics, and representatives of the people of God, ordained and elected members to the Annual Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Eastern America have gathered together for the Virtual Annual Assembly of the God-protected Diocese of Eastern America of the Serbian…

On Thursday of the 1st Week of Lent, 5/18 March 2021, the Patriarchate celebrated by transference the commemoration of our Holy Father Gerasimus of the Jordan at his Holy Monastery, in the desert of the river Jordan, at a short distance from the river’s estuaries towards the Dead Sea, on the West Bank. This Monastery…

An article by: Heba Hrimat The 5th Century Greek Orthodox monastery is located close to the north side of the Dead Sea, and is one of the earliest monasteries in the area. Also known as ‘Deir Hijla’ in Arabic, the monastery was founded in 455 AD by Saint Gerasimus, a monk from Lycia in modern-day…

On Ash Wednesday, 4/17 March 2021, the first Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified Gifts on the first week of Lent was celebrated at the Monastic Church of Saints Constantine and Helen, at the Presence of H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos, with the participation in prayer of the Hagiotaphite Fathers, Archbishops, Priests, Deacons and…

The rectification of an historical injustice is underway as the only altar of the St. Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg named for its patron saint has finally been returned to the Church. The Divine Liturgy will be celebrated there on the feast of the Annunciation on April 7, marking the first service celebrated on…