On September 14, 2019, a telephone conversation took place between His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus with Archbishop John (Renneto) of Dubna. During the telephone conversation on September 14, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill informed Archbishop John (Renneto) that the Holy Synod had decided to satisfy the request of most of the Archdiocese…

Today His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain celebrates his name day on the occasion of the Feast Day of his patron Saint Nikitas the Holy Great Martyr! May God grant His Eminence Many Years!

The Esphigmenou Monastery (Greek: Εσφιγμένου) is located on the northeastern coast of the Athos Peninsula in northern Greece close to the Monastery of Chilandari. It is ranked eighteenth in the hierarchical order of the twenty monasteries located on the peninsula. As is the case with the other institutions on Mount Athos, life at Esphigmenou is…

On September 13th, 2019, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America presided at the Vespers of the Feast of the Holy Cross at Holy Cross Chapel, Brookline, Ma. At the conclusion of the vespers service, His Eminence bestowed the “raso” (or cassock) on the seniors in the School of Theology during the service of the “rasoforia.”…

But someone might say, “Then, if heaven is so great, why don’t you all just go and kill yourselves, and pass over to your God right away, and not bother us anymore?” I’ll tell you why we don’t kill ourselves—but why, when we are interrogated, we fearlessly confess. We’ve been taught that God did not…

The church of St Nicholas, which is nestled on Princes Avenue in Toxteth, is opening its doors to the public today as part of the Heritage open days. Built in 1870, the imposing building is a replica of the famous Constantinople church St. Theodores, which was converted into a mosque during the Ottoman era and…

His Eminence Metropolitan Jonah Lwanga today presided over Holy liturgy in commemoration of the Elevation of the Venerable and Life-Giving Cross. The staff at Holy Cross Orthodox Mission Hospital Namungoona gave their offerings in celebration of the feast day of the Hospital.  

Reading Saint Helen, the mother of Saint Constantine the Great, when she was already advanced in years, undertook, in her great piety, the hardships of a journey to Jerusalem in search of the cross, about the year 325. A temple to Aphrodite had been raised up by the Emperor Hadrian upon Golgotha, to defile and…

One of the two Archangels flanking Romania’s largest mosaic depiction of the More Spacious than the Heavens Icon of the Mother of God was successfully installed on the half-dome that stands above the altar of the National Cathedral in Bucharest. The members of the Church Painting Committee of the Romanian Patriarchate spent their Friday analysing…