The Orthodox Metropolis of Korea (Ecumenical Patriarchate) has issued a statement concerning the decision to turn the Monastery of Chora into a mosque. The statement reads: After the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque, the Turkish Government, unfortunately, proceeded with another infamous act, turning the Monastery of Chora into a mosque as well. The famous…

Archimandrite Serafim Grigoraș from the Metropolitan Cathedral in Iași was enthroned on Tuesday as the abbot of “St. John the New of Suceava” Monastery. His Grace Damaschin of Dorna, Auxiliary Bishop of Suceava and Rădăuți, officiated the cheirothesia ceremony, with the participation of Archim. Melchisedec Velnic, Abbot of Putna Monastery, and Archim. Nectarie Clinci, Abbot of Sihăstria…

Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church donated 2,000 Euros for Sara Nukina, a teenager suffering of brain tumour. The girl is well-known to the audience of  Radio Trinitas, the radio station of the Romanian Patriarchate, for her generous moral support of the elderly and the ill with her songs and the freshness of her presence. “She…

CHICAGO, IL, September 3, 2020 – The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Chicago and the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago announced today that the Cathedral and Fifield Companies, a leading real estate development firm, have entered into an agreement to transfer, for a fee, excess air rights from parish property to a neighboring property for…

His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta has issued a message on the occasion of the Ecclesiastical New Year. The message reads:   My Beloved Ones, As we begin this Ecclesiastical New Year, I would like to take this opportunity to offer some words for the new school year as well. Our schools and universities, like…

On Thursday, August 21/September 3, 2020, the New Consul General of Greece in Jerusalem, Mr. Vlioras visited H.H.B. the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos on the occasion of the undertaking of his new duties. Mr. Vlioras was accompanied by the Vice Consul Mrs. Christina Zaharioudaki. On this visit Mr. Vlioras informed His Beatitude on his intention…

The second part of the Archontariki from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, with an assembly of faithful gathered at a university chapel in the city of Cluj, Romania, was posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia News Agency. 

The foundation stone for the new cathedral of the Archangels in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv was laid this week by His Eminence Nikolai, the Metropolitan.             

The Metropolitinate of Montenegro and the Littoral’s Bishop of Mileshevo, His Grace Atanasije, on Wednesday issued an immediate response to an instance of vandalism against an Islamic cultural center in the city of Pljevlja, adding that “…we pray to God to bring about peace”. The Orthodox Church in the small Adriatic country also immediately expressed…