CONSTANTINOPLE – Clergy members of the Monastic Brotherhood of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem have been infected by the Coronavirus as was reported in an announcement of the Ecumenical Patriarchate which informed about the postponement of Patriarch Theophilos’ visit to the Phanar. The announcement follows: “Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in a letter to Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem…

The Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy Esteemed Members of the Metropolitan Council, Esteemed Members of the Parish Councils, Philoptochos Sisterhood, Faculty and Students of the Catechetical and Greek Afternoon Schools, Directors and Participants of all Youth Organizations, and all devout Orthodox Christians of the Communities of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Jersey    …

  It is with pain of heart that I am following the events unfolding in California, which is engulfed in flames, making this the second worst fire season in the history of the state. And I hasten to express my profoundest sympathy to everyone. I prayerfully empathize with His Eminence Archbishop Kyrill, the auxiliary bishops…

Sunday, August 30 was a special day for Ss. Peter and Paul Church in Potomac, Maryland, as it witnessed His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph ordain the “first-chanter” of the Antiochian Archdiocese to the holy priesthood. Fr. John (Rassem) El Massih once served as Sayidna Joseph’s assistant and travel companion. The Archdiocese knows him well for his…

On September 2, 2020, the Synod of the Patriarchate Exarchate of South-East Asia met at the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity at Ostankino, Moscow. It was chaired by Patriarchal Exarch of South-East Asia Metropolitan Sergiy of Singapore and South-East Asia. The Synod meeting was attended by Metropolitan Pavel of Manila and Hanoi and Archbishop Feofan…

His Grace Sofronie, Bishop of Oradea, officiated on Sunday the Divine Liturgy at the “Lord’s Resurrection” Orthodox Cathedral in Oradea to celebrate a century from the re-establishment of the Diocese of Oradea through Royal decree. On this occasion, the hierarch spoke of the historical meaning of the day of August 30 for the Romanian Orthodox…

Yesterday, September 1, on the feast of the Donskoy Icon of the Mother of God, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy at Moscow’s Donskoy Monastery, during which Archimandrite Pitirim (Dondenko) was consecrated as Bishop of Jakarta, vicar of the Diocese of Singapore. The wonderworking Donskoy Icon of the…

The brotherhood of the Monastery of St. Dionysios the Areopagite of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia in St. James, New York, was forced to leave its home and church in April 2018, and has been praying and worshiping since then in a small chapel within the monastery building, which becomes overly-crowded on Sundays…

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