The Romanian Patriarchate this week expressed its sharp criticism of a decision by the central government to cancel the annual pilgrimage organized Patriarchate and the Archdiocese of Bucharest on the feast day of St. Demetrios the New, the Patron saint and Protector of Bucharest — as well as the pilgrimage to the Metropolitan Cathedral…

  Members of the Holy Eparchial Synod of the Archdiocese of America have announced the establishment of two committees to draft a new charter for the Archdiocese. The meeting took place on Monday following an invitation by the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, for an extraordinary tele-conference. The Holy Synod expressed gratitude to Ecumenical…

  Members of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece convened on Tuesday morning, with Greece’s Development and Investments Minister, Adonis Georgiadis, briefing hierarchs over a framework of cooperation between the Church and state. Among others, a memorandum of cooperation was signed by the Church, the ministry and the Network of Greek…

  The Church today venerates the memory of Carpus, Papylus, Agathodorus and Agathonica, the Martyrs of Pergamus. They were all beheaded for their faith during the reign of Decius, in the year 250.

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch. celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Cathedral Church in Belgrade on October 10, 2020, on Ven. Cyriacus’ All Souls’ Day. In the prayerful presence of His Grace Bishop Mitrophan of Canada, the Patriarch was concelebrated by protopresbyter-staurophor Petar Lukic, presbyter Slavisa Popovic and archdeacon Damjan Bozic. The sermon was…

The virtual tour of the Diveyevo Monastery is available online on the monastery’s website. It includes 120 panoramas made in the daytime and at night. The tour presents an aerial panorama, views of the holy spring of St. Seraphim, of the Holy Canal along which walk and pray pilgrims and the Mother of God herself,…

The visit of His Beatitude Patriarch John X to the Dormition of the Theotokos Church in Zabadani to follow the reconstruction works. The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X, on Monday toured the Dormition of the Theotokos cathedral in the small Syrian city of Zabadani, where reconstruction works are underway….

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Today marks the 76th-anniversary of the evacuation of Axis occupation troops from Athens during WWII. German troops began retreating from the Greek capital on the evening of October 11, 1944, with only a handful of remaining Nazis assembling at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in front of Parliament in central Athens, on the morning…