Report of Archbishop Leonid of Vladikavkaz and Alania, deputy head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relation (DECR), to the international conference on Syrian refugees’ and internally displaced people’s return to their homes, November 10-12, 2020, Damascus.  Esteemed representatives of state leadership, ministries and departments in Russia and Syria, Distinguished assembly: I greet…

The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, on Friday issued a message on the occasion of the World Day for the Rights of the Child. Among others, the Archbishop noted that “… all children, wherever they may be around the world, hope and envision a better world, for themselves, for their families, for the communities…

The Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, Theofan, reposed in the Lord on Friday at the age 73, following COVID-19-related complications. According to Russian media, the Metropolitan was born in May 1947 to a working-class family in the Kursk region, and after completing his obligatory military service he found refuge in the Church and remained there…

Several Church of Cyprus clerics of the Metropolises of Limassol and Paphos have addressed a letter to the island republic’s president, Nicos Anastasiades, and to the relevant health minister, calling of a lifting of a total ban on the presence of worshippers during Church services. Clerics reiterated that they agree with the imposition of public…

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, continues to be treated in an Athens hospital’s ICU for mild Covid-19 symptoms, after his admission on Thursday morning. A spokesman for the Archdiocese on Friday said the Primate of the Church of Greece was without fever.

The Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Serbian Patriarch, Irinej, reposed in the Lord on Friday morning. The Serbian Patriarch had been hospitalized since November 5 at a military hospital in Belgrade after testing positive for COVID-19. His health subsequently deteriorated and the Patriarch was intubated, finally falling into a coma. Patriarch Irinej was…

The Church today venerates the memory of Gregory the Righteous of Decapolis, in Asia Minor. St. Gregory’s journeys took him to many cities in the Eastern Roman Empire, where after many labors in defense of Orthodoxy against Iconoclasm, he reposed in peace in the first half of the 9th century.

A three-day mourning period will be declared in Serbia due to the death of Patriarch Irinej, the Government of Serbia has decided. The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church died this morning in the Karaburma Military Hospital as a result of the coronavirus, at the age of 91. “At today’s session, the Government of the…

His Eminence Metropolitan Hrizostom of Dabar-Bosnia celebrated the memorial service for newly-departed Serbian Patriarch and Our Father Irinej at the Cathedral church of Holy Archangel Michael on 20 November 2020. spc.rs