NEW YORK – During his multi-day visitation of the Metropolis of Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophros of America, accompanied by Metropolitan Nathanael of Chicago, made a pilgrimage to the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of New Gračanica-Midwestern America. He was received by Bishop Longin of New Gračanica at the eponymous Monastery,…

The parish Slava is the Great Feast of Pentecost. The Slava celebration was iconic of the call to unity with the Holy Trinity, the Church, and its people in the feast of Pentecost in three ways. The first was the celebration of the Great Feast of Pentecost with Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church on Laird…

His Grace Bishop Stefan of Remesiana officitaed the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy at the Russian church of Holy Trinity in Belgrade on 8 July 2019. The Day of family, love and fidelity began to be marked five centuries ago in an ancient Russian town of Murom; officially as the Russian holiday was established ten years ago…

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, received His Excellency Osman Sabba, Charge d’Affaires of the Embasy of the Syrian Arab Republic to the Republic of Serbia at the Serbian Patriarchate on 9 July 2019.   spc.rs

New Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will arrive at the education and religious affairs ministry on Thursday, his first – and highly symbolic – visit to a ministry after being sworn-in as the premier on Monday. Moreover, as widely reported, a file with the new center-right government’s priorities in the education sector has already been…

One Athonite monastery had a triple celebration on Sunday, as a new church was opened in addition to the feast of the Nativity of the holy Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist of the Lord, John and that of the Byzantine New Martyrs and Confessors. The new church at Dochariou Monastery, one of the Holy Mountain’s 20…

An event was held at the Russia House in Belgrade this week on the occasion of the Feast Day of Sts. Peter and Fevronia, the patrons saints of the Russian Orthodox Church for the family, love and fidelity. The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Irinej, attended the event. Referring to the Feast Day, the Serbian…

Tuesday, July 9 marked 63 years since a catastrophic earthquake on the iconic island of Santorini, one of the biggest tremors in Europe in the 20th century. The quake was followed by a 25-meter tidal wave, known as a tsunami in our days, which claimed numerous victims and caused significant damages on Santorini and nearby…

Orthodoxy continues to flourish in Japan, where several characteristic Orthodox cathedrals stand in the Land of the Rising Sun, despite cultural differences. In the words of St. Nicholas of Japan, the 19th century Orthodox Archbishop in the country, who was born Ivan Dimitrovich Kasatkin, “… My goal is to create a local Church, Orthodox in…