The coronavirus pandemic will slowly go away and it will soon be just a memory, Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria said on Thursday after a meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades. “Life goes on, so we must all muster our strength and courage to keep fighting this battle,” the Patriarch, the current Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of…

On Thursday, September 4/17, 2020, the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, met in its canonical Meeting, 115/4th /17th September 2020, chaired by H.H.B. Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III, discussed various matters and decided the following; Appointed Geronda Sacristan of the Holy Sepulchre, His Eminence Archbishop Isidoros of Hierapolis, as member of…

The St. Philip the Apostle Russian Orthodox Church in the United Arab Emirates city of Sharjah has reopened after six months. A Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Church, previously closed due to the pandemic, officiated by Archimandrite Alexander Zarkesev.

The Holy Synod of the Jerusalem Patriarchate on Thursday announced the appointment of a new Exarch for Greece, with the up-until-now Patriarchal Commissioner for Jordan, Archimandrite Raphael, being appointed to the position.

A scheduled visit to Austria by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, has been cancelled. His All Holiness was set to arrive in the central European country next week for the dedication of the first Orthodox monastery in Austria. The reason for the cancellation was the ongoing pandemic.

Russian Orthodox Church’s Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, this week underlined that the greatest of all basilicas of eastern Christendom is still considered by the Russian Church as a Christian place of worship. Hilarion, who is the Moscow Patriarchate’s head of the department for external Church relations, told a Russian television program that both…

The newly re-elected president of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy, Russian lawmaker Sergey Gavrilov, this week bitterly criticized the Turkish state’s conversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, as well as what he called Turkish provocations. Gavrilov spoke during the group’s general assembly, which was conducted via teleconference. Moreover, an epistle by the Patriarch…

The issue of partaking in Holy Communion was again raised in Greece after a professor of genetics said the sacrament should be prohibited, due to the ongoing pandemic, or, that disposable spoons should be used during the sacrament. The statement, which again targets one of Christianity’s most sacred beliefs, generated an immediate response by Church…

The Church today venerates the memory of Eumenius the Wonderworker, Bishop of Gortynia. This saint took up monastic life from his youth, and later became Bishop of Gortynia, on in Crete. He travelled to Rome and Thebes in Upper Egypt, where after working many miracles, he reposed in deep old age.