In the Adriatic country of Montenegro, the Metropolitan Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Eminence Amphiliochios, this week received the US ambassador to the country, Judy Rising Reinke. In welcoming the US diplomat, the Metropolitan referred to the centuries-old and rich Christian history and heritage of Montenegro. Discussions touched on the safeguarding of the…
Three newly elected Metropolitans of the Church of Greece on Thursday expressed their affirmation, before Greek President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos, to uphold the Holy Canons and the Laws of the State. The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, was also present during the affirmation ceremony at the presidential mansion. The…
Greece’s foreign minister, Nikos Dendias, met in Moscow on Wednesday with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, with talks also briefly touching on the contentious issue of autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Both men more-or-less concluded that recent developments over the complex matter will not affect bilateral relations. On his part, Dendias said the Greek…
The Synod of the Latvian Orthodox Church (LOC) has denied media reports on its transition from the Moscow Patriarchate to the Constantinople Patriarchate. “All reports on the alleged transition or transfer of our Church to Constantinople amount to a bare-faced lie. It has been invented by enemies of the Orthodox faith and reproduced by the…
On Wednesday, October 24/ November 6, 2019, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated at St. James Cathedral with a Memorial Service of the founders of this Cathedral, and of the Holy Forty Martyrs’ Chapel which lies between St. James Cathedral and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The memorable Patriarchs of Jerusalem are buried there. The…
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel sent a message to the Symposium organized by the Institute for Political Sciences and International Relations of the Romanian Academy to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Romanian Revolution of 1989 urging the participants not to forget those who suffered under communist regime. The message was read out…
The Conference will take place on Saturday, November 9, 2019, at the facilities of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church of Flushing (196-10 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY 11358), between 9:30 am and 4:30 pm, and will be attended by representatives of organizations of the Church and the Omogeneia, representatives of the academic world, educators and clergy…
Saint Paul says that „Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established” because our first aim is to perfection ourselves and not to fight with others, so for this we need to have a stable and peaceful environment. Saint Paul says, “Let everyone be…
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