Moscow, May 12, Interfax – Head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion spoke out against a mosaic portrait of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to be placed on the wall of the Russian Armed Forces’ main church in the town of Kubinka outside Moscow. “I believe that the images of Stalin definitely…

In Old Valaam, fish farming was one of the main and most profitable branches of the monastery economy. Fish cages appeared in various places of the archipelago during the monastery’s heyday in the mid-19th century, demonsrating the monastery’s skillful use of natural resources in the northern climate. Now, that old tradition is being revived and…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has proclaimed May 17 as “AHEPA Sunday” in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. AHEPA Sunday is an annual recognition of a long and cherished relationship between AHEPA and the Greek Orthodox Church in America. The encyclical issued by Archbishop Elpidophoros states, in part: “This year, … all of…

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Third online Archontariki from Mount Athos, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, will take place on Saturday from 10.00 to 12.30, Athens time, or 08.00 to 10.30 GMT. Archontariki in Greek means the guest house in a monastery. You can register via a webpage form posted…

  The Metropolitan-Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Eminence Amphilochios, met and made joint statements this week with the Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Niksic, His Grace Ianike, in the wake of imposed measures against the spread of the coronavirus in the small Adriatic country. Both hierarchs also decried what they called the selective and…

  The Metropolitan of Nairobi and Exarch of Kenya, His Eminence Makarios, spoke with the Orthodoxia news agency and journalist Maria Giachnaki this week. Among others, His Eminence referred to the passion and thirst by the faithful in Africa for the holy services and sacraments. Additionally, he spoke at length over the strength that African parishioners…

  Members of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod convened on Tuesday, amid a peaceful protest outside the Petraki Monastery, in central Athens, by some 30 demonstrators, who demanded the immediate reopening of cathedrals throughout the country for the holding of services with the presence of worshipers. The Church of Greece has…

  Today is the 4th Tuesday after Pascha, Great and Holy Easter Sunday. The Church today venerates the memory of Epiphanius of Salamis, a 4th century Bishop and Church father, who ministered and spread the Gospels on eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. St. Epiphanius gained a reputation as a strong defender of Orthodoxy during his…