Every year in the month of May, a gala marking the Commencement Ceremonies of the Patriarchal Toronto Orthodox Theological Academy (PTOTA) takes place. This year, due to extenuating circumstances, it took place instead on Friday, October 18th. Over four hundred (400) people attended the gala, which took place at the Cultural Centre of the Holy…
On October 21, 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), visited the Russia’s Permanent Representation to the United Nations in New York to meet with Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vasiliy Nebenzya. They discussed issues of mutual concern in the area of cooperation between the…
On October 21, 2019, in the course of his visit to the USA, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR) and rector of Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies (CMI), visited St. Vladimir’s Seminary in New York, the higher education institution of the Orthodox Church…
At the invitation of His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph, Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of all North America (Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America-Patriarchate of Antioch and all the East), Their Eminences Archbishop Elpidophoros of America (Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America-Ecumenical Patriarchate) and Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk and Chairman of the Department of External…
How can we put up with these things unless it is because we have no true love? If we have true love with sympathy and patient labor, we shall not go about scrutinizing our neighbor’s shortcomings. As it is said, ‘Love covers up a multitude of sins’, and again, ‘Love thinks no evil … hides…
Israeli archaeologists uncover stunning mosaics and glass windows but remain stumped by identity of the ‘glorious martyr’ to whom the 6th-century basilica was dedicated Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a Byzantine basilica built under the Emperor Justinian and decorated with stunning mosaics and glass windows, as well as an inscription that dedicates the church to an…
The Roman governor who was responsible for condemning Jesus of Nazareth to death by crucifixion also ordered the construction of a street for pilgrims to follow to the Jewish Temple more than 2,000 years ago. National Geographic reports that historians previously thought it was the Roman-appointed King Herod the Great who approved most of the large…
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An address entitled “With My Every Breath I Glorify the Lord” will be given on Wednesday afternoon at the St. (Aghios) Demetrius Cathedral, in the same-name central Athens district, by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi. The address comes within a series of events for the annual…