His Holiness Patriarch Irinej officiated on the occasion of the monastery church dedication day, the feast of the Translation of the relics of the Holy Archdeacon Stefan, the Holy Liturgy in the monastery dedicated to that First martyr in Slanci near Belgrade, on August 15, 2020. During the Liturgy His Holiness the Patriarch ordained monk…

New York, NY – His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros departed for Istanbul following the celebration of the Dormition of the Theotokos at the eponymous Church in Southampton. This will be His Eminence’s first visit of 2020, the last time he was there was for the Feast of the First-Called Apostle Andrew in November of 2019. The…

DONATE to aid the victims Watch video of the Brooklyn event Read coverage from the New York Daily News His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph remembered making “75 phone calls” the day of the blast in Beirut, “just to make sure the people I know are still alive.” The explosion on August 4 – captured on video…

August 11, 2020 His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East for the Greek Orthodox Church called for a Solidarity Meeting in the Archdiocese of Beirut, in response to the huge catastrophe that befell Beirut and its inhabitants due to the terrible explosion. The meeting was headed by His Beatitude Patriarch John…

Families camp, Holland With the blessing of the Reverend Metropolitan Isaac Barakat, the Antiochian Orthodox Church in the Netherlands held a meeting for young families, from August 3 to 7 2020, with the title “Rise and do not be afraid” (Matthew 7:17). Many families gathered to reflect on the topic of education and the Christian…

Saturday, August 15, 2020, the feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos The Liturgy on the great Mother of God feast was performed by Metropolitans Stefanos of Kallioupolis and Madytos, Maximos of Selyvria and Ioannis of Zambia, Hierarch of the Patriarchate of Alexandria.

The head of the Belarusian Orthodox Church gave his blessing to offer special prayers for the Belarusian people, who are going through a difficult time now. With the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Pavel of Minsk and Zaslawye, Patriarchal Exarch of Belarus, prayers are offered in every church and monastery of the Belarusian Orthodox Church…

Renewed Continuation of Illegal Construction work on Decani-Plav Highway within Visoki Dečani Monastery’s Special Protective Zone Despite Kosovo’s Law on Special Protective Zones explicitly forbidding building highways and transit roads through Special Protective Zones, the unambiguous stance of the Law’s Implementation Council, and the position of international representatives in Kosovo that the construction of a…

His Grace Bishop Arsenije of Nis visited the Clinical Center in Nis on 13th August 2020. On that occasion, His Grace had a conversation with PhD doctors: Vladan Cosic, Deputy General Director; Goran Stanojevic, Assistant Director for Professional Medical Matters and Surgery, and Nikola Milenkovic, specilized epidemiologist. The doctors made familiar His Grace with the results…