The Bulgarian Orthodox Church this year will celebrate the 800-year anniversary of the establishment of the historic rock-hewn monastic and chapel complex of Ivanovo, near the northern city of Ruse The rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo were included in an UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979. The caves in the region have been inhabited by…

The iconic building off Princes Avenue was built in 1870 and has served the city’s eastern orthodox congregation ever since he Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas is celebrating its 150th anniversary this week. The only orthodox church in Liverpool, St Nicholas’ has served parishioners from its iconic Berkley Street building, at the start of…

  CHERRY HILL, NJ – On January 12, after the Divine Liturgy, the vasilopita was cut at St. Thomas Greek Orthodox Church in Cherry Hill. Every year, the traditional cutting of the vasilopita is held for all those present, including the presidents of the church organizations. On this day, the community also raises a sum…

  On September 15, a crucifix was installed on the wall in the Ministry of Internal Affairs building in Chișinău, Moldova. The ceremony was attended by then-Interior Minister Andrei Năstase, His Eminence Metropolitan Vladimir of Chișinău and All Moldova of the Russian Church in Moldova, and His Eminence Metropolitan Petru of Chișinău and Bessarabia of…

His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of the Orthodox Church in America has addressed his brother primate His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia with a letter of support concerning the recent troubling events in Montenegro, with the Parliament and President adopting a new law that gives the state the authority to confiscate property from the Serbian Orthodox…

At the end of last year, Valaam Monastery posted a video with Monk Abel performing a part of Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers. The video gathered over 7600 likes on Valaam Monastery’s Instagram account and was viewed more than 140,000 times on YouTube. The “Waltz of the Flowers” (1892) is a piece of orchestral music…

  In a metropolis in Northern Greece, there’d been no rain for some time. It was a terrible drought and, due to the situation, the local metropolitan and clergy began to pray for rain. After long prayers and liturgies to no avail, when the animals were beginning to die, the metropolitan sent an encyclical to…

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At 6.00 p.m. of the last day of the year, December 31, 2019/January 13, 2020, the ceremony of the cutting of the New Year Cake was held at the Reception Hall of the Patriarchate. Present at the ceremony were the Consul General of Greece in Jerusalem Mr. Christos Sophianopoulos, Hagiotaphite Archbishops and other Hagiotaphite Fathers,…