A Wonderful Assembly of all the Orthodox – View more photos HERE and HERE   On Saturday, August 31, 2019, the second day of the Diocesan Days and celebration of the 800thAnniversary of the Autocephaly of the Serbian Orthodox Church, began with a most magnificent pan-Orthodox Hierarchical Divine Liturgy officiated by Metropolitan Joseph of the Antiochian…

On Sunday, September 1, 2019, during the celebration of Ecclesiastical New year, His Grace Bishop Silvester celebrated Holy liturgy at St. Catherine women’s monastery Kiyindi – Holy Metropolis of Kampala. The Bishop thanked sister Thavoria the Abess of the Women’s Monastery for amazing work done at the center and all the mostly looking after the…

The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew honored the distinguished Associate Professor and writer Christos Yannaras with the Offikion of Archon Grand Rhetor, after the completion of Vespers, which he celebrated in the afternoon of Saturday, August 31, the eve of the celebration of the Indiction, at the Life-Giving Spring at Valoukli, in the presence of a multitude…

‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?’ (Matt. 18: 32-33) 1 September, 2019, the 11th Sunday after Pentecost, the church-goers present at the Divine Liturgy in the Nativity of the Lord Cathedral in…

His Eminence, the Most Reverend Nikon, Archbishop of Boston, New England, and the Albanian Archdiocese, fell asleep in the Lord on Sunday, September 1, 2019. Born to a pious Orthodox family in 1945 in New York, Archbishop Nikon graduated from Saint Vladimir’s Seminary in 1966. He was ordained to the Diaconate on July 5, 1969,…

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The new ecclesiastical year was also commemorated by the Orthodox faithful in Uganda, where the Church has recorded significant missionary and charitable work over the decades. The Elder Metropolitan of Kampala and All Uganda, His Eminence Jonah, presided at a celebratory Divine Liturgy on Sunday at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas.  

The Metropolitan of Astana and Almaty and first hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church in Kazakhstan, His Eminence Alexandros, arrived in the east Mediterranean country for a visit, at the head of a group of pilgrims. The Metropolitan and the pilgrims were welcomed at the Athens International Airport on Saturday by the Kazakh Ambassador to…

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, presided at a celebratory Divine Liturgy in Bucharest on Sunday, on the occasion of the beginning of the Indiction. His Beatitude Daniel expressed a hope that the new ecclesiastical year will one of prayer and spiritual awakening for all.