The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s hierarchy on Saturday confirmed a previous decision by the permanent Holy Synod last August to recognize Archbishop Ieronymos’ privilege of handling the issue of autocephaly for the Ukranian Church, as well as the canonical right of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to grant the Tomos. Essentially, the decision on Saturday…
From September 27 to October 4, 2019, a delegation of ecclesial and secular mass media from Russia was on a visit to Ethiopia with the aim to develop relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ethiopian Church. They were to visit places associated with the history of Christianity in Ethiopia and to see the…
On 10 October 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, currently on a visit to Bulgaria, visited the Metropolia of Pleven. He visited the Church of St. Paraskeva and met and talked with Metropolitan Ignatij of Pleven. The next day Metropolitan Hilarion departed for homeland. He was…
The Russian Orthodox Church continues its social work and outreach for the protection of families, opening its 67th shelter for pregnant women and mothers in crises situations, this time in the Kaliningrad Province. The new shelter began its work recently at the Church of All Saints in Gusev, Kaliningrad. It can accommodate up to 8…
The first ever National Conference for Supporting Women in Pregnancy Crisis took place at the beginning of October at Caraiman Monastery in Bușteni, Prahova County. The conference was organized from October 4 to October 6 by the St Alexandra the Empress Counseling Centre and brought together 30 participants from all over Romania and the Republic…
The 10-children Ciobanu family will soon have a new place to live, thanks to the generosity of one Romanian monastery. Work on their new home in the village of Ion Neculce began at the end of May and is rapidly nearing completion. The building is covered with a roof and the windows were recently installed….
When one is not free from sin, let him not blame another. Let him not lay the blame neither on the state nor on the circumstances, but on himself, on the lack of his strength in faith, on the lack of his love for God. Always those who lived in sin have blamed others….
NEW YORK – His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America welcomed to the Archdiocese, the newly appointed Priest, Rev. Archimandrite Chrysostomos Panos and the Parish Council of the Greek Orthodox Church of Transfiguration in Corona, NY, consisting of President Mr. Anastasios Koularmanis and Board Members Lori Vergos, Peter Stasinos, John Tiliakos, Emmanuel Mousis, Michael Filacouris,…
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