According to Archbishop Chrysostomos, his decision to recognize the OCU will be supported by the majority of the bishops of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus. The decision to recognize the OCU will serve Orthodoxy and the Church of Cyprus, said Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Cyprus after the liturgy at the monastery of the Most Holy Theotokos of Chrysorrogiatissa,…

The moments are extremely crucial for Greece as the second wave of the pandemic threatens the health “of many of our fellow human beings,” Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos said on Friday to Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA). “Our Church which, from the first moment, was on the front line of the national effort…

On Wednesday, October 21, Mr. Grigol Kublashvili successfully defended his dissertation thesis at Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute, in Paris. The theme of the doctoral dissertation was the identity and teachings of Leontius of Byzantium. Grigol Kublashvili completed his master’s degree course at Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary (2012-2015), and in the years 2016-2020 took the…

On Friday, October 16, the Locum Tenens of the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Metropolitan Shio of Senaki and Chkhorotsku, met with the US Ambassador to Georgia, Ms. Kelly C. Degnan at the US Embassy. The meeting was also attended by the Head of the Office of Foreign Ecclesiastical Relations of the Georgian Patriarchate, Metropolitan Gerasim…

A Syriac Bible written on gazelle skin, which was stolen after the looting of a museum in Aleppo, was found back by Turkish police in Gaziantep. Turkish newschannel NTV, says the discovery of the Bible was announced in a written statement by the Provincial Police Department after Anti-Smuggling and Organised Crime forces recovered the Syriac Bible…

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The third part of the seventh online Archontariki from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, was posted today on the pages of the online magazine Pemptousia. The online assembly was held on Oct. 1. 

The Russian Orthodox Church’s Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, continued his visit to Syria. Hilarion, who is also the head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external Church relations, visited the chapel of the Prophet Elijah, which is located within a Russian military base in the country, where he spoke with Russian servicemen about…

Poland’s highest court this week ruled that abortions in cases of fetal defects are unconstitutional. One of the institutions that had pressed for the high decision was the Orthodox Church of Poland and its primate, the Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland, His Eminence Sava.