“At this rather notable point in the history of the Cathedral”, according to Project Executive, Don Zivkovic, “with the substantial completion of the current phase of the reconstruction work just achieved”, we are “such a very long way, in many respects, from where it all started”.  The Secure & Enclosure undertaking consisted of securing the walls, including rebuilding…

The Archdiocese of America’s 45th Biennial Clergy Laity Congress will take place on Wednesday and Thursday this week, under the chairmanship of Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros. This year’s congress, however, will be “Virtual”, meaning that the roughly 1,100 participants will congregate online, in an effort to curb exposure to the coronavirus.

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, referred to the commemoration of the Nativity of the Theotokos, stressing that the celebration teaches us that the Virgin Mary is the fruit of the prayers of our parents, while beseeching couples who may not be able to have offspring to adopt or assist families with many…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Irinej, this week again reiterated that the Orthodox Church in the country will only accept an agreement regarding Kosovo that entails that the province remains as a part of Serbia. In a statement referring to negotiations that took place between Belgrade and Pristina in previous days, the Serbian Patriarch…

The Metropolitan of Imvros and Tenedos, His Eminence Kirillos, on Tuesday led a procession of numerous pilgrims who hail from Imvros, an island in the extreme northeast Aegean, to a remote mountain chapel for the holding of a Divine Liturgy, on the occasion of the Nativity of the Theotokos, the All-Virgin Mary. The chapel, dedicated…

A large portion of the infamous Moria “hotspot” on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos was burned to the ground in the early morning hours of Wednesday, with thousands of would-be asylum seekers and irregular migrants hosted there left without shelter. The island has borne the brunt of the migration crisis Greece since 2015, when…

The Church today venerates the memory of the Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna. The celebration of the synaxis of Sts Joachim and Anna honours them as the parents of the most Holy Theotokos – a day after the commemoration of the Virgin Mary’s Nativity.

On Sunday, September 6, a monument to the father of monasticism, St. Anthony the Great, was unveiled in the Voskresny Deanery of the Nizhny Novogorod Diocese, next to a church dedicated in his honor. The ceremony was attended by His Eminence Metropolitan George of Nizhny Novgorod, Archpriest Boris Makarenko of the Church of St. Anthony…

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch received His Excellency Mohammed Nabhan, the Ambassador of the State of Palestine to the Republic of Serbia at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade on 8 September 2020.     spc.rs