The 163rd synodical period for the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece began on Sunday, which marked the new ecclesiastical year. The Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod, with a new composition and chaired by the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, convened on Tuesday. Two of the Church’s most senior hierarchs, the…

On the feast day of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God, His Grace Bishop Mitrophan of Canada visited the faithul people of Windsor on the occasion of the church slava of Windsor’s Gracanica. Bishop Mitrophan served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy with the concelebration of the local priests. Also, general Consul of the…

Meeting at Danilov Monastery on August 30 under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church appointed a new abbot for Moscow’s famous Sretensky Monastery. Following the transfer of the previous abbot, His Eminence Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov), to the Diocese of Pskov in…

Meeting at Danilov Monastery on August 30 under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church established a new feast for the pious faithful of the Lithuanian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church at large. Having heard a request from His Eminence Metropolitan…

His Eminence Metropolitan Pavel of Minsk and Zaslavl celebrated the feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos with the Divine Liturgy, a procession with the burial shroud of the Mother of God, and the consecration of a miraculous spring at the Holy Dormition Monastery in the village of Zhirovichi, Belarus. Met. Pavel was…

The most ancient monastery of the Nizhny Novgorod Province, the St. Theodore Monastery in Gorodets, is celebrating its 865th anniversary this year. Celebrations dedicated to this significant date are being held through the end of September, reports vgoroden.ru. The monastery is one of the oldest not only in the province, but in all of Russia, and…

Holy Trinity-St. Nektarios Monastery on the Greek island of Aegina, founded by St. Nektarios the Wonderworker, one of the greatest saints of the 20th century, celebrated the spiritual joy of receiving a new spiritual head on Sunday. “In an atmosphere of deep emotion,” the enthronement of the new Abbess Timothea was celebrated at the monastery…

Myrrh appears to seep from the “Miraculous Myrrhstreaming Icon of the Mother of God” at St. John the Baptist Orthodox Christian Church in Post Falls, Sept. 1, 2019. The letter paper-sized icon, which was brought to Idaho for the first time on Sunday, is believed to be a holy miracle and travels around the world….

One of the greatest hierarchs in the history of the Orthodox Church will now be officially celebrated annually in the Filipino municipality of Guiuan. The great wonderworker St. John (Maximovitch) of Shanghai and San Francisco took a large group of orphans under his care to Tubabao Island after communist rule came to China in 1949….