A 100-year-old building in the city of Haugesund in southwestern Norway was given new life on Sunday, as it was consecrated as a parish church of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The new church, the first Romanian Orthodox parish in Norway, is dedicated to the “O All-Hymned Mother” Icon of the Theotokos, as well as…

  n 22nd September 2019, in the city of Zahle, Lebanon – birthplace of Metropolitan Niphon of Philippopolis who has been serving as representative of the Patriarch of Antioch to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia since 1977, there was laid the first stone of the future Orthodox Church of the “Unexpected Joy” Icon…

  On 22nd September 2019, at the Beirut international airport, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met with H.E. Mr. Alexander Zasypkin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Lebanese Republic. Among the issues raised during the meeting was the cooperation between Russia and…

On September 23, 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), while on a visit to the Holy Land with a blessing of His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, met with His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All…

God made us in His image and likeness—that is, just a single created god—a single Human in many persons of two kinds (man and woman), as He is a single God in three persons. God created a giant mind, a created god, in which all persons would cooperate flawlessly through their minds in real time…

The 3rd Annual National Orthodox Church Youth and Young Adults Camp is back again this year and is slated for 10th – 15th December 2019 at the Holy Resurrection Orthodox Cathedral Jinja – Holy Diocese of Gulu and Eastern Uganda. The Theme for this year: ( 2 Corinthians 13: 1, 5) ” This is the…

  NEW YORK – The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America announces that the Hon. Mr. George Tsandikos and the Hon. Mrs. Catherine Bouffides-Walsh have submitted to His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, their voluntary resignations from the positions of the Vice-President and Secretary of the Archdiocesan Council, respectively. The Archbishop has accepted these resignations with regret, praising…

On Sunday, September 9/22, 2019, the Patriarchate celebrated especially the commemoration of Saints Joachim and Anna, whose prayer was answered by God and granted them Maria as their child, and made them Ancestors of God, and their daughter the Mother of God, because she was predestined to bear in the flesh His Only Begotten Son…

On Sunday, September 22, 2019 His Eminence Metropolitan Methodios attended the Divine Liturgy at Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in the South End. After the Divine Services His Eminence had the opportunity to visit and greet the stewards and volunteers of the parish’s Greek Festival which was taking place that weekend. boston.goarch.org