The Church today venerates the memory of the Synaxis of the Holy and Righteous Symeon, the God-Receiver, and the Holy Prophetess Anna.   Apolytikion of Symeon & Anna First Tone Hail Virgin Theotokos full of Grace, for Christ our God, the Sun of Righteousness, has dawned from you, granting light to those in darkness. And…

A new national information line for Church social assistance was launched by the Russian Church’s Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service yesterday. The hotline began its work on the 12th anniversary of the enthronement of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill as the primate of the Russian Church. Hotline operators are taking calls 24-7, and…

His All-Holiness noted this in his homily at the Holy Church of the Birth of the Theotokos, at Belgrade Gate in Istanbul “The Church embraces all people with its affection and covers all with its maternal mantle, not just those of a high social standing,” said His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, after the Divine Liturgy, during…

Address on the occasion of the celebration of the memory of the Three Hierarchs in the Phanar The memory of the Three Hierarchs and “Patrons of Letters” was honored with special solemnity at the Holy Center of the First-Throned Church of Constantinople today, Friday, January 29, 2021, one day early, as travel restrictions apply during…

In the blessed Aboukir in Alexandria, Egypt, where the Holy Unmercenaries Saints Kyros and John lived a part of their most virtuous lives, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, officiated today, January 30, 2021, during the Divine Liturgy in the modest chapel dedicated to their memory. A chapel that is…

Details of the formal presentation of the Church of Greece’s commemorative medal for the bicentennial of the 1821 Greek War of Independence were announced on Monday by the Holy Synod. It will take place on Wednesday, in the Church of Greece’s Hierarchy Hall, at the Synodical building in Athens, in the presence of Archbishop of…

On Thursday, January 28, 2021, the eve of the 100th anniversary of the translation of the relics of the Alapaevsk Martyrs to Russian Gethsemane, the international conference, titled “The Holy Land and the Russian Church Abroad”, took place online for the first time. It was organized by the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem (of the…

On January 24, 2021, Bishop Polikarp of Belogradchik, vicar bishop of His Holiness Patriarch Neofit of the Orthodox Church in Bulgaria, visited the Representation of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia in Sofia where he was met by Archimandrite Vassian (Zmeyev) and Archpriest Yevgeny Pavelchuk, the Representation’s rector and secretary respectively. Bishop Polikarp venerated…

Patriarch Daniel expressed sorrow and condolences to the families of the persons who died in a blaze at a hospital in Bucharest being used to treat COVID-19 patients. At least four people have been killed in a blaze at a hospital in Bucharest being used to treat COVID-19 patients, just three months after another hospital…