On Sunday, October 25, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas presided over Great Vespers at the Church of Saint Demetrios in Edmonton, N. London, and on Monday, October 26, His Eminence presided over Matins and served the Divine Liturgy at the same Church. thyateira.org.uk

Marking the beginning of a three-day celebration in honour of Bucharest’s Patron Saint, four priests led by a bishop carried the relics of Saint Demetrios the New outside the patriarchal cathedral during a small procession on Sunday morning. The reliquary was placed in a baldachin next to the cathedral where pilgrims from Bucharest are expected…

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Ascension church in Belgrade on 25 October 2020. The Patriarch was concelebrate by local priests and deacons. On this occasion His Holiness Serbian Patriarch ordained deacon Bosko Savic, Professor of the Sain Sava Seminary in Belgrade, a presbyter.     spc.rs

October 25, 2020 Saint Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church Jamaica, New York Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I am very pleased to be with you for the Divine Service, especially on this Eve of the Feast of your Patron Saint, the Holy Great-Martyr and Myrrh-Streamer Demetrios. This mighty captain of men became an Angelic General…

  On October 25, 2020, the commemoration day of the holy fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the church of Our Lady the Joy to All the Afflicted-In-Bolshaya-Ordynka, Moscow. The archpastor was assisted by the clergy…

As October is quietly slipping by and the last of the warm days with it, this is the time to enjoy autumn with an unforgettable visit to the northern portion of the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. In a special video, with subtitles in English, the Association of Bulgarian Tour Guides, jointly with the Ministry of…

The governing body of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the Holy Synod, elected Bishop Yakov as the new Metropolitan of Dorostol on October 25. Yakov, 49, thus becomes the Holy Synod’s newest member. Up to now, he was vicar to Plovdiv Metropolitan Nikolai. The election by the Holy Synod took place a week after an election…

Encyclical on the occasion of “OXI Day” Beloved in the Lord: In this month of October, when we celebrate the feasts of so many great Saints of the Church, we also bring to mind the Feast of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos. We, especially, remember the Virgin Mary, our Protectress, as we recall…

With the blessing of His Grace Andrej, Bishop of Austria-Switzerland, a regular session of the Committee for construction of the memorial church of the Holy Serbian New Martyrs was held at the military cemetery in Mauthausen, after the evening service in the church of St. Basil of Ostrog the Miracle-worker in Linz, on Friday, October…