The floor of the Basilica of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is going under renovation. The Foundation Centre for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage (La Venaria Reale) in Turin and the Department of Antiquity Sciences of La Sapienza University in Rome are overseeing the project which has been agreed by…

On 17 February 2020, the presentation of the Serbian version of Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk’s book “What Orthodox Christians Believe In” took place at the crypt of the St. Sava Cathedral in Belgrade. The translation was made by Bishop Antonije of Moravici, rector of the Moscow Representation of the Serbian Orthodox Church and published in…

The Church needs to increase the prayers for riddance of coronavirus, for the people and the administrations of its countries due to the epidemic of coronavirus, Metropolitan Sergy, the patriarch’s exarch of Southeast Asia, said. He gave his blessing for a special prayer service. “Now that the offices of many establishments are temporarily closed and…

Continuing his missionary journey to the Holy Diocese of Malawi, on Saturday 15 February 2020, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, accompanied by His Eminence Daniel Metropolitan of Aksum and His Grace Fotios Bishop of Malawi, arrived at the Holy Church of the Resurrection, in the Bayani district of…

The funeral Mass of Fr Godfrey O’Donnell (80) the only Irishman to be ordained a priest of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Ireland, took place on Monday at St Columba’s Church, Blakestown Way, in West Dublin. A total of 28 Romanian Orthodox priests from Europe and Ireland took part in the Mass, The Iris Time reports. From Derry, Fr O’Donnell…

On 29th June 2019, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia welcomed a new Primate and Father in His Eminence, Archbishop Makarios, and with him, a new focus on Australia’s youth and young adult community. “In collaboration with our blessed priests,” he shared at his enthronement, “we shall give greater emphasis to the younger generations. Young…

Archbishop of Sebastia Diocese Of the Greek Orthodox Church in occupied Jerusalem, Attallah Hanna, welcomed a delegation of the World Council of Churches at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the adjacent cathedral, and urged them, along with all churches, to denounce the so-called “Deal of the Century” and the ongoing historical injustice inflicted…

With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira & Great Britain is pleased to announce that between the 5th and 17th of March the Archdiocese will host the Holy Relic of St. George from the Holy Monastery of Xenophontos (Mount Athos) for the spiritual renewal and sanctification of the faithful…

On February 14, 2020, the Department of Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America participated in the 58th Session of the Commission for Social Development at the United Nations. The Department held a side event on the Housing First Approach as part of the Archdiocese’s initiatives on homelessness. The event, titled,…