A resolution to a decades-long ecclesiastical thorn in Australian Orthodoxy appears coming to an end. A scheduled visit of the Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, next week to the schismatic St. Spyridonas church in Clayton, Melbourne, is expected to mark the parish’s return to communion with the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. At the…

The Church today commemorates New Hieromartyr Seraphim, the bishop of the Phanar in Greece. In another feature today on Orthodoxia Νews Αgency, the Monk Kirillos speaks about the 18th century monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos, better known as the Koroni, or crown, monastery. The monastery, located in a verdant spot in the rugged Agrafa…

A photo feature is posted today on the Orthodoxia News Agency showing the subterranean Chapel of St. Barbara, which is located some 240 meters beneath the earth’s surface in a disused salt mine in Romania. Construction was completed in 1992, and comprised the first church built in a salt mine in Europe. Candlesticks and the…

The Church today venerates the memory of Barbara the Great Martyr. St. Barbara was from the city of Heliopolis, in ancient Phoenicia, and lived during the reign of the Roman Emperor Maximian. The daughter of the idolater Dioscorus, she refused to renounce her faith, suffering torture and finally beheading — all at the instigation of…

Patriarch Kirill did admit, however, the problem of domestic violence in Russian families The Russian Orthodox Church is strongly against any domestic violence, but it is equally against intrusion into family life from outside, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill said at a sermon on Wednesday. “Bills on preventing the so-called domestic abuse, domestic…

His Eminence Metropolitan Iakovos of Mytilene on Sunday met with the Greek community in Izvoarele, a village in the eastern county of Tulcea. It has become a tradition for the Metropolitan of Mytilene as well as for other officials from Lesvos to visit Romania and meet with members of the Greek community in Tulcea every…

Ioan Cuemjiev, the founder of the first Romanian Church in Africa, was honoured with the highest distinction of the Romanian Patriarchate, during the consecration ceremony performed on the feast of St Andrew the First-Called in Johannesburg. The delegate of the Patriarch of Romania was His Eminence Metropolitan Iosif of Western and Southern Europe. The Divine…

On 1 December 2019, on the first Sunday of the Advent of the Nativity of the Lord (24th Sunday after the Pentecost), Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and all Moldova conducted the Divine Liturgy in the Nativity of the Lord Cathedral in Chisinau. The arch-pastor was assisted at the service by archpriest Vadim Cheibas, the Cathedral…

The Monastery of Agia Varvara Roussanou is one of the six active monasteries in Meteora and it is dedicated to Agia Varvara, who is commemorated by the Greek Orthodox Church on December 4th. Its building complex covers the entire terrace of the long rock situated in a beautiful place within the green forest. The monastery…