The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Monday visited the Monastery of Halki and the Orthodox seminary on the small Marmara Sea islet of the same name. The Patriarch’s visit came on the occasion of the Feast Day of Holy Myrrh-Bearer, Equal of the Apostles, Mary Magdalene. Following the Divine Liturgy,…

With great joy and feelings of deep emotion, the monastic brotherhood of the Holy Monastery of St. John the Forerunner of Mesa Potamos, Cyprus announces to the reading public that pre-orders of the book The Romanov Royal Martyrs: What Silence Could Not Conceal are now being accepted. An official video trailer for the book has…

The Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Washington, D.C. is under the protection of two great saints named John, and now it will enjoy the protection of a third. The church was founded by St. John the Wonderworker of San Francisco in 1949 and named in honor of the great prophet St….

Archaeologists, from the Kinneret Academic College and Nyack College of New York believe they have unearthed the Church of the Apostles that, according to Tradition, was built on the site of the home of the great apostles Sts. Peter and Andrew. The village of Bethsaida, where the brothers lived, is today part of the Bteikha…

The Church today venerates the memory of St. Pelagia of Tinos, who discovered the miracle-working but lost Our Lady of Tinos icon in 1822, on the eponymous Cyclades island months before the Greek Revolution erupted in 1821. The icon is conveyed from the iconic Our Lady of Tinos Cathedral, in the island’s capital, only on…

His Grace Bishop Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Eastern America met yesterday afternoon with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Ambassador for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback in Washington, DC. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the second annual Ministerial Conference on Religious Freedom at the initiative of the State…

National Youth Conference 2019 Yes (July 13-16) in conjunction with the Church Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Dioceses in the USA First and foremost, we are grateful to those parishes who made the effort to fully sponsor one of their youth to come to such an amazing gathering. It is truly a joy when the…

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  The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, this week inaugurated the first memorial to theologian and Orthodox neomartyr Pavel Florensky, who was executed in 1937.