With blessings of his grace bishop Silvester of Orthodox Diocese of Gulu and Eastern Uganda we had baptism of four children and liturgy led our dean Fr Thomas and parish priest fr philumen. Geplaatst door Orthodox Diocese of Gulu and Eastern Uganda op Maandag 11 november 2019   Orthodox Diocese of Gulu and Eastern Uganda/facebook

Saint John Chrysostom was renowned for his explanations of the Holy Scriptures. He also interpreted the Epistles of Saint Paul, whom he admired greatly. In order to assure himself that the interpretation of the Epistles were correct, he asked God to offer him a sign. At that same time, a nobleman had risen against Emperor…

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The Greek government will move to stiffen penalties for certain offenses  in the country’s penal code, while also including a re-institution of the offense of malicious blasphemy of religion, which was eliminated from the law books by the preceding leftist government days before the latter lost a general election. In detailing the center-right government’s proposal penal…

The Metropolitan of Aetolia and Akarnania, His Eminence Kosmas, spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency this week over his fervor in spreading the Gospel from one corner of the world to the other, adding that the faithful are “thirsty” for the Word of God. “People are flocking for confession, in humbleness, accepting the messages of…

  A Greek-language documentary on the inauguration of the St. Nektarios Cathedral in 1994 on the island of Aegina is posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency. The Church was built over the course of 21 years. 

  The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, on Saturday presided at the Great Vespers service for the feast day of St. Arsenios the Cappadocian, held in the Earlwood district of Sydney. Personal items of St. Paisius were venerated along with a Holy Relic of St. Arsenios. As the Archbishop explained to the faithful, St….

  The Feast Day of St. Menas of Egypt was celebrated with particular ecclesiastical splendor on Monday in the northern Greek city of Kastoria, with the veneration of the city’s patron saint coinciding with the 104th anniversary of its liberation during WWI. An archieratical Divine Liturgy was held on Monday morning at the Byzantine-era Cathredral…

  The coming week will witness three enthronements of new Metropolitans of the Church of Greece, beginning on Thursday with the enthronement of the Metropolitan of Limnos and Aghios Efstratios, His Eminence Ierotheos, at the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. On Saturday, in the south-central Greek city of Lamia, the enthronement of the new…