As the Orthodoxia news agency first reported a day earlier, members of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople on Monday afternoon officially announced the canonization of three Athonite Fathers, namely, the Elder Joseph the Hesychast, the Hieromonk Ephraim Katounakiotis and the Elder Daniel Katounakiotis — something that His All Holiness, the Ecumenical…

To the priests, deacons, monastics and laity, the beloved children of the Holy Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago, Grace, mercy, and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be upon you. The care of his flock is of primary concern to a Hierarch. Just as a loving parent or guardian would, the bishop is called to guide…

  JONATHAN JACKSON | 10 MARCH 2020 I would like to briefly express what the Orthodox Church means to me, as one who has entered into it later in life. This of course, is impossible to articulate with words, because it is a mystery, but I will speak, like a child in awe. I am…

NEW YORK – On March 8, 2020, eleven Orthodox hierarchs from various canonical jurisdictions concelebrated the Divine Liturgy on the first Sunday of Lent, also known as the “Sunday of Orthodoxy,” at the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, in New York City. His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America presided over the Divine Liturgy. He…

The essence of the church is synodicity (synergy). The biggest problem of mankind today is that they have forgotten the Jesus which is God-Man, and therefore our heavenly purpose. Thus we are condemned to be imprisoned on the human plane, materially fighting among ourselves for the material things. The problems of society and of the…

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Thousands of people again held peaceful protests in cities around Montenegro to show their opposition to a controversial law that allows the state to confiscate religious institutions’ assets and relics, which the Serbian Orthodox Church in the small Adriatic country has charged aims to directly harm Orthodoxy and the Church. In the capital of Podgorica,…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and the Most Reverend Members of the Holy Eparchial Synod of the Archdiocese of America, on Friday issued guidelines to the clergy and laity to deal with a possible covid-19 outbreak in North America. A statement read “…Recognizing that this outbreak impacts not only on the most vulnerable members…

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, on Sunday referred to what he called a “powerful distortion” of Christian faith amid an increasingly globalized society. During his sermon on the Sunday of Orthodoxy at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, the Russian Patriarch bemoaned the fact that modern man, as…