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

On September 8, 2020, a videoconference was held between Metropolitan Sergiy of Singapore and South-East Asia, Patriarchate Exarch for South-East Asia, and Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, minister for foreign affairs of the Republic of Singapore. During the talk, which was held in a warm atmosphere, the sides discussed the construction of a Russian cultural center and…

  On September 8, 2020, Archbishop Theophanes of Korea met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Lee Sok-bae of the Republic of Korea to the Russian Federation. They discussed a wide range of issues concerning the Russian-Korean humanitarian cooperation. Archbishop Theophanes introduced the diplomat to the work of the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Korea. Participating in…

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch has said today that the only agreement that the Serbian Orthodox Church accepts is the one in which Kosovo is part of Serbia. “That is absolutely the position of the Church, and nothing has changed there. We will still see in which direction the negotiations between the Serbian and Albanian…

  His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of Saint Athanasius the Great in the suburb of Zemun, Plavi Horizonti, on 6 September 2020. The Patriarch was concelebrated by protopresbyter-staurophor Bozo Bakajlic, Diocesan dean of Zemun-New Belgrade; presbyter AndjelkoDoder, principal of the church; archdeacon Stevan Rapajic and deacon Radomir…

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch received His Royal Highness Crown Prince Aleksandar and Princess Katherine Karadjordjevic at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade on 8 September 2020.     spc.rs

The great 20th-century Athonite elder Ephraim of Katounakia was canonized by the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople at its session on March 9, together with Elder Joseph the Hesychast and Elder Daniel of Katounakia. His first feast day since his glorification was celebrated on Sunday, September 6, including with a hierarchical Divine Liturgy…

  ​The Nativity of Our Most Holy Virgin Mary is celebrated by the Church as a day of universal joy. Within the context of the Old and the New Testaments, the Most Blessed Virgin Mary was born on this radiant day, having been chosen before the ages by Divine Providence to bring about the Mystery…