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18.10.2019 | 11:53
Supreme Court upholds demolition order for illegally built chapel
The Supreme Court has upheld a decision of a lower court authorising the demolition of a chapel a man built on private land to fulfil a vow after his daughter overcame a health problem, Phileleftheros reports. It said that Paphos district officer had taken the man to court for building the chapel without securing a…
18.10.2019 | 11:09
The ceremony of the Dies Academicus of the Institute of Postgraduate Studies in Orthodox Theology of the Orthodox Center of Chambésy
The traditional ceremony of the Dies academicus of the Institute of Postgraduate Studies in Orthodox Theology took place on Thursday 17 October 2019 at the Orthodox Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Chambésy (Geneva). After the service of the blessing of the waters and the reading of the message of His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch…
17.10.2019 | 21:16
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17.10.2019 | 18:56
8th int’l scientific con’f on 200th anniversary of beginning of Greek War of Independence this week
The secretary of a special Church of Greece synodical committee on cultural identity, Fr. Bartholomew Antoniou, spoke to the Orthodoxia News Agency this week, on the occasion of the upcoming 8th international scientific conference, a series of events on the 200th anniversary of the beginning of the Greek War of Independence (1821-2021). The conference will…
17.10.2019 | 18:34
Schismatic parish’s board votes to return to Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia’s jurisdiction
Board members of the schismatic church of St. Spyridon in Clayton, Melbourne, on Sunday voted in favor recommending that the parish’s return to the jurisdiction of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, and by extension, to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Congregants of the parish are set to vote upon the board’s recommendation during an…
17.10.2019 | 18:32
Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Austria & Switzerland prays for war-ravaged Syria
The Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Austria and Switzerland this week called on the faithful to pray for the war-stricken people of Syria, and especially for the still missing Greek Orthodox Bishop of Aleppo, His Grace Paul Yazigi, the brother of the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X. Bishop Paul and…
17.10.2019 | 18:20
Annual blessing ceremony at Greece’s supreme court – (PHOTOS)
The Archbishop of Athens on Thursday officiated at the annual blessing ceremony at Greece’s supreme court building, on the occasion of the new judicial year. His Beatitude was welcomed at the high court by its president, Iosif Tsalaganidis, in the presence of Greek Justice Minister Costas Tsiaras and numerous judicial officers. …
17.10.2019 | 17:57
Moscow Patriarchate’s Holy Synod warns: Communion with Archbishop Ieronymos will cease if Church of Greece commemorates ‘head of schismatics’
The Moscow Patriarchate’s Holy Synod today sharply condemned recent decisions by the Church of Greece’s hierarchy regarding the Tomos of Autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, warning that it will break communion with the Greek Church if proceeds with recognition, although a spokesman later clarified that the Russian Church will maintain relations with individual Greek…
17.10.2019 | 14:39
Metropolitan Hilarion: The rupture with Constantinople has not damaged either the Russian or the Ukrainian Church
The chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, gave an interview to the TASS News Agency – Most contradictory reports are coming, mostly from anonymous sources, about the Bishops’ Council of the Greek Church held last Saturday. Could you explain what decisions were made at it and how…
