On Friday, November 9/22, 2019, a Doxology took place at the Catholicon of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for the 14th Election and Enthronement Anniversary of His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos. The Doxology was officiated by H.H.B. with co-celebrants the Hagiotaphite Archbishops and Hieromonks, Arab-speaking Priests, Deacons and Monks of all…

His Beatitude Sawa (Hrycuniak), Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland celebrates Sunday his 40th episcopal consecration anniversary. His Beatitude Sawa is the current head of the autocephalous Church of Poland. He is the eighth hierarch to head the Polish church since it was granted autocephaly by the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1924. As…

The Romanian Patriarchate will give away 1,410 copies of the New Testament with Psalms to the Romanian soldiers abroad. The New Testaments will be distributed in the near future through the Religious Assistance Section of the Ministry of National Defence, Fr. Ciprian Ioniţă from the Social-Philanthropic Department of the Patriarchal Administration told the Basilica News…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America from November 17 to 23, 2019 led an Archon Pilgrimage to Constantinople to receive the blessings of
 His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. On their first full day in Constantinople, Sunday, November 18, 2019, the pilgrims visited Zoodochos Peghe Monastery at Balukli, where the Patriarchal graves of past Ecumenical Patriarchs…

Epiphany Dumenko said that he sees no problems for the OCU to move up the date of Christmas celebration to December 25. The head of the OCU, Epiphany Dumenko, said that Ukrainians can celebrate Christmas by the Gregorian calendar on December 25 if they want to, according to Glavcom citing the Zik TV channel. According to Dumenko, at the moment…

The Russian Orthodox Church has supported participants of an event in defense of the traditional family, which was held in Moscow’s Sokolniki Park last weekend in light of plans to adopt a bill on domestic violence. “We consider the organization of a rally devoted to the bill on family and domestic violence to be a…

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia has suspended the activity of the Moscow mission of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa. “Activity of the Moscow mission of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa has been temporarily suspended,” the Russian Orthodox Church’s Department for External Church Relations head Archpriest Igor Yakimchuk told Interfax…

On 21 November 2019, on the Feast of the Synaxis of Archangel Michael all Bodiless Powers, Patriarchs Theophilos of Jerusalem and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. The first hierarch of the Orthodox Church of Moldova, His Eminence Vladimir of Chisinau…

On 24th November 2019, the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost, the parishioners of the Nativity of St. John the Baptizer Church in Chisinau greeted with utmost joy and spiritual love the arch-pastor of the Orthodox Church of Moldova, His Eminence Metropolitan Vladimir, who conducted the celebration of the Divine Liturgy marking the 10th anniversary of the…