Archbishop Makarios is making good on his promise of casting the church’s focus on youth. A rehabilitation centre for drug abuse will open in Melbourne with the support of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Archbishop of Australia Makarios announced during his recent visit to Victoria. The reason behind this decision is that 38 per cent of Melbourne’s…

On Sunday, 27 October 2019, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas con-celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Divine Wisdom in Bayswater with The Right Revd Bishop Maximos of Melitine (Assistant Bishop of the Metropolis of France) followed by Te Deum (Doxology) for 28th October 1940. Bishop Maximos presided at the Matins. thyateira.org.uk

On October 27, 2019, 19th Sunday after Pentecost, commemoration day of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, the Divine Liturgy in the ancient Greek language was celebrated at the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and Martyr Alexandra the Empress in St. Petersburg on the eve of the Greek national holiday ‘Oxi Day.’…

The Annual Archon Weekend of the Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle was held last weekend, October 18-20, in New York City. The weekend focused on the Order’s efforts to secure religious freedom for the Mother Church of Constantinople and welcomed the 2019 Class of Archons. The Metropolis of Chicago was honored to receive three…

  By its broadcasting the Radio Slovo ljubve (Word of Love) has strengthened the mission of the Serbian Church in the past decade,” His Holiness Patriarch Mr. Irinej pointed out in his message to this Church Radio on the occasion of its 10th anniversary. “In this year when we mark the great jubilee of the…

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, received Mr. Nik Vujicic, a famous humanist and motivational speaker at the Serbian Patriarchate on 29 October 2019. spc.rs

Thousands of pious Orthodox Christians from Romania and abroad traveled to Bucharest over the weekend to celebrate the feast of St. Demetrius the New, the patron saint and protector of Bucharest and one of the most beloved saints in Romania. The relics of St. Demetrius, along with those of the newly-glorified St. Dionysius (Erhan) of…

Several clergymen of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church recently had the blessing of concelebrating the Divine Liturgy with His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia. The concelebration came during a recent pilgrimage of clergy and faithful from the Mukachevo Diocese of the Ukrainian Church, undertaken from October 16 to 23 with the blessing of Metropolitan…

The 4th anniversary of a fire that killed 64 and wounded 147 at the Colectiv club in Bucharest in 2015 will be marked by a memorial service organized by the Archdiocese of Bucharest on Wednesday, October 30, 2019. The service will be officiated at St Nicholas – Broșteni church in Bucharest. The liturgical program includes…