On 14 November 2019, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated a prayer service at the remains of the chapel of St. Bartholomew in the capital of Azerbaijan. Church tradition holds that St. Bartholomew, one of Christ’s twelve apostles, suffered and died for the Saviour here. A Christian church was built on…
On 14th November 2019, while in Baku, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia visited the Cathedral of the Holy Myrrhbearing Women. The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church performed the Lesser Consecration of the cathedral which had undergone a large-scale restoration. Among those praying in the church were Metropolitan Pavel of Minsk and…
His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch received His Excellency Nikos Dendias, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Greece at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade on 14 November 2019. The audience was attended by Secretary-General of the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Greece Mr. Temistocle Demiris, Ambassador of the Republic of…
‘It would be wonderful if the dependence on the word of God were at least directly proportional to the addiction to our smartphone,’ wrote Wednesday His Grace Bishop Ignatie of Husi on his Instagram account marking the Bible Day. He stressed that we are in ‘the age of word inflation,’ an inflation which lacks the…
On November 13, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros offered the keynote address at an Ecumenical Symposium titled “Truth does not fear dialogue,” hosted by Saint Peter’s Church with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York; the Metropolitan New York Synod, ELCA; The Grace Foundation; and Yale Divinity School. In his address, Archbishop Elpidophoros emphasized the importance…
The more you love Christ, the more it seems to you that you do not love Him and yearn more and more, to love Him. Because the most beautiful and compelling discourse about love is the embrace, let us open widely all the arms of our heart and to hold everyone in our embrace so…
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A Week of Orthodox Christian Youth is taking place for a second straight year in the Bulgarian city of Yambol, beginning on Tuesday. The event has the blessing of the Metropolitan of Sliven, His Eminence Joanikii, and is organized jointly with the municipality of Yambol.
The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, this week issued an encyclical to all Greek Orthodox parishes on the island continent, calling on the clergy and faithful to a joint prayer service on Sunday in order to pray for an end to a punishing draught and the end of wildfires in southeast Australia. His Eminence…