Today marks the 5th Friday of Great Lent, where the 24 “oikoi”, or stanzas, each one beginning with the next letter of the alphabet, which comprise the Akathyst Hymn – a kontakion, a hymn of Orthodoxy in honor of the All-Holy Theotokos, the Virgin Virgin, will be chanted. Akathyst or Akathistos means standing in Greek,…

Another clergyman has been infected with coronavirus. The bishop of the eparchy of North America, Saba Intskirveli, said the above in a video message posted on social network. According to him, the infected person is Spiridon Narsia, who serves in New York. “I would like to tell you the sad news that the second clergyman…

The rule of communion is a canonical and traditional issue that can be changed, but only by the supreme hierarchy of the church, Archpriest Theodore Gignadze told InterPressNews. “Generally, canonical and traditional issues can be changed. It has always been so inside the church. The only thing that cannot be changed is that God is the…

Andria Jaghmaidze, Head of Press Center of Georgian Patriarchate said that heads of churches will be given 3 recommendations today. “You are given three recommendations: The patriarch’s blessing is that, considering the curfew, prayers will begin tomorrow at 4.00 pm and the church will be closed at 8 pm every day. As a reminder, it…

“Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia said that the government will do its best to solve the problem for Easter. May God allow us to conduct the celebratory service,” ​Head of the Patriarchate’s Public Relations Service, Andria Jagmaidze, noted at today’s briefing. Archbishop Andria Jagmaidze pointed out that the Georgian Orthodox Church follows the recommendations and…

His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia has issued an encyclical regarding the finances of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. Read the full text down below:  

The Metropolitan of Bessarabia urged ‘all those who feel Romanian to intensify their prayers’ and remember the founders of the historical event of March 27, 1918, when the region united with the Kingdom of Romania. In his message marking the 102nd anniversary of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania, Metropolitan Petru recalled the important role…

Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has met with the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, to discuss reasons behind the declaration of general quarantine throughout the country. Head of the Patriarchate’s Public Relations Service, Andria Jagmaidze, claims that the declaration of universal quarantine was unexpected even for the Church. Accordingly, the Georgian…

Metropolitan Kirill of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk backed up the idea of hierarchs from other dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church and flew on board of a helicopter over Stavropol with a cross blessed in Jerusalem and particles of the relics. Patriarch Kirill’s press service reports on Thursday that the head of Stavropol Metropolia “say a…