A new exhibition, “Open Book: Religious Themes in Contemporary Russian Art,” organized by the Patriarchal Cultural Council and the Russian Ministry of Culture, opened in Munich, Germany on October 31. The Cultural Council is headed by His Eminence Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Pskov and Porkhov. The exhibition is being presented in countries throughout Europe as…

November 8, 2019 Feast of the Synaxis of the Holy Archangels To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the reverend priests and deacons, the monks and nuns, the Presidents and Members of the Parish Councils of the Greek Orthodox Communities, the distinguished Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Day, Afternoon, and Church Schools, the Philoptochos Sisterhoods, the…

SYOSSET, NY – Archbishop Elpidophoros visited Metropolitan Tikhon, on Monday Nov. 4, 2019, at the Chancery of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). The two hierarchs exchanged formal greetings in the St. Sergius Chapel. They restated the importance of developing brotherly relationship between the Archdiocese and the OCA through concrete practical projects and collaboration. A…

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  Members of the ethnic Greek community in the Australian city of Cairns, along with local officials and municipality’s mayor, Bob Manning, this week warmly greeted the Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios. The visit marked the first time that the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of Australia visited the far north Queensland city,…

  The Russian television station Kul’tura is set to broadcast a documentary entitled “Orthodoxy and Albania”, on the occasion of the 90th birthday of the Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios. The documentary, produced by the Moscow Patriarchate’s department of external Church relations and its chairman, the Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence…

In Russia, His Holiness Kirill this week participated in events commemorating national unity day, joining Russian President Vladimir Putin and other dignitaries in laying a wreath at the monument of national heroes Kuzma Minin and Dymitr Pożarski in Red Square.

The First Secretary of the Metropolis of Messinia, in extreme southwest Greece, Archimandrite Filippos Hamaryias, this week visited the French naval support vessel Loire, representing the Metropolitan of Messinia, His Eminence Chrysostomos, and following an invitation by the vessel’s commander, Stéphane Le-Ven The vessel docked at the port of Kalamata after participating in a military…

  Members of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod convened for a second straight day on Tuesday, while no announcement was made after Monday’s session. The Holy Synod’s sessions will conclude on Wednesday. Although the issues on the agenda are considered as routine, the Holy Synod convened in the wake of a…