Bishop Sahak Mashalian, the newly elected Vicar of the Armenian Patriarchate in the City (Istanbul), visited on Friday, August 2, 2019, the seat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Phanar. Bishop Sahak, accompanied by clergy of the Armenian Patriarchate, was received by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew with honor and cordiality, and informed him of the…

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New Orthodox parish, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was founded for the dozens of newly baptized Christian Orthodox faithful in Guatemala.

A feature is posted today on the Orthodoxia News Agency on the life and work of the Elder Chrysostomos, the Abbot of the Monastery St. Gerasimos of the Jordan. The Elder Chrysostomos has worked tirelessly to protect the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem’s possession, and, with the blessing of God, to create an oasis for…

Orthodox missions around the world continue to provide significant humanitarian work, especially in places where children lack even the basic necessities. In fact, the Panaghia Theotokos, the Virgin Mary, holds a special place for Orthodox Christians in sub-Saharan Africa. For the Orthodox faithful among the proud Masai tribe, the Virgin Mary is known as the…

A miracle-working icon of the Theotokos, the Ever Virgin Mary, will be conveyed from the Holy Convent of Adam to 120 Orthodox parishes in the Archdiocese of Lower Danube. The icon will be displayed for veneration at each parish before returning to the convent on the eve of the Feast Day of the Dormition of…

Researchers from the Leventis Foundation on Cyprus, the imposing Alexandria Library and National Bank of Greece’s Cultural Foundation met this week at the Patriarchate of Alexandria to discuss an ambitious plan to preserve and restore some 100 priceless manuscripts, many created hundreds of years ago. The meeting was chaired by the Patriarch of Alexandria and…

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, this week prayed for those affected by the massive flooding in the Russian Far East region where the Amur River flows. Hundreds of residences were buried in floodwaters and mud, with more than 2,500 people evacuated from their homes.  

The Church today commemorates the Translation of the Relics of Stephen the Protomartyr, in an era immediately after the major persecutions of early Christians in the Roman empire, and during the reign of Constantine the Great. In the third decade of the 5th century, a pious man called Lucian, who was the parish priest of…