The name of the head of Ukraine’s new church, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, (OCU) Metropolitan Yepifaniy Dumenko was for the first time mentioned by a hierarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church during a liturgy service. Bulgaria’s Metropolitan Nikolay of Plovdiv led the morning service at a church in Greece’s Langadas, the Greek website Romalewfronimati…

And God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” So, God created man in…

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  By the Grace of God, today Thursday 28 November 2019, the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, met in the Holy Patriarchal Church of St. George under the presidency of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. There, the Synod elected: 1. Archimandrite Evagrios Koutouzis as Bishop of Meloes. 2. Archimandrite Elpithios Karalis as Bishop…

  A new church dedicated to Saint Andrew the First-Called who is considered the Protector of Romania will be consecrated this Saturday in Johannesburg, South Africa. The consecration ceremony will be officiated Nov. 30 by His Eminence Metropolitan Iosif of Western and Southern Europe. The event represents the crowning of the efforts of the Romanian…

An exact replica of the wonder-working Panaghia Vimatarissa Holy Icon was welcomed today in the courtyard of the Piraeus Nursing Home. The icon was conveyed by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi.   Report: Dimitris Stroubakos – Photos & Videos: Nikos Oikonomou / Orthodoxia News Agency    …

  More than 100,000 young people participated in special programs organized by the Archdiocese of Iasi, in Romania, with the support of 13 clerics tasked with working with youth and volunteers. More than 67 summer camps, 13 university fora, 17 educational seminars, an assembly with young people from Moldova, sports events and pilgrimages took place…

  Rescue crews continued to work against the clock to locate possible survivors in the rubble of buildings that collapsed from a 6.4 on the Richter scale earthquake, which struck the coastal central region of the country on Tuesday. According to local media, the death toll has risen to 40, while 47 people are officially…

  Turkish police this week arrested four local men and charged them with a break-in 10 days ago at the official residence of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I. The Ecumenical Patriarch was not in the residence at the time, while no items were taken. However, video footage of the burglars…