1. At the Patriarchate On Cheese fare Sunday afternoon, 1/14 March 2021, at 5.30 pm, at the Monastic Church of Saints Constantine and Helen, the Service of the Small Compline was read, and before dismissal, H.H.B. the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos read the Prayer of forgiveness to the Fathers, Archbishops, Hieromonks, Deacons and Monks, as…

His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, received His Excellency Anthony Godfrey, the Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of Serbia on 12 March 2021 at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade. Ambassador Godfrey on behalf of the United States of America congratulated His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch the enthronement to the throne of…

WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, THERE YOUR HEART WILL BE ALSO” (Matthew 6:21). Sunday Of Forgiveness/Cheesefare Sunday At Holy Ressurection Cathedral Jinja. Today His Grace Bishop Silvester celebrated the Divine Liturgy and later on participated in the Vespers of Forgiveness which marks the Beginning of the Great Lent period. In His sermon His Grace reminded the…

Still licking his wounds after failing to seize Serbian Orthodox Church property, Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović is now threatening to expel Orthodox priests from the country. In response to a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church who recently stated that there are more clergymen than soldiers in Montenegro, the President spoke of the need to…

On Tuesday, March 9, 2021, the feast of the 1st and 2nd Finding of the Head of St John the Forerunner of the Lord, a regular session of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia was held remotely. Chairing the meeting was His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and…

This morning the Archepiscopal Vicar of Canberra, Very Reverend Archimandrite Prochoros Anastasiadis served Matins and the Divine Liturgy at the church of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Launceston. Father Prochoros was accompanied by the Reverend Vasilios Verdos, Parish Priest of the church of the Holy Trinity in Hobart. It was a moving service as…

At its session on March 8, 2021, the Sacred Community of Mt. Athos, the governing body representing the 20 ruling monasteries of the Holy Mountain, decided to send a letter of support to the Holy Synod of the Cypriot Orthodox Church concerning the protest over the song chosen to represent Cyprus at the international Eurovision…

The all-male monastic community of Mt. Athos will be powered by photovoltaic panels, according to a decision signed off on Wednesday by Governor of Central Greece Apostolos Tzitzikostas. Monasteries of the community in northern Greece have been using petrol-based power generators, while they also burn wood for electricity production, the governor pointed out, as the…

The all-male monastic community of Mount Athos announced on Friday it will extend its ban on visitors to March 31, as part of measures against the coronavirus pandemic. Additionally, staff or other essential visitors will be tested for the coronavirus at all entry ports to Mt. Athos. Mt. Athos has remained closed to visitors since…