His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel sent a message on World Social Media Day urging freedom and responsibility in digital communication. Patriarch Daniel’s Message on World Social Media Day: full text Various online campaigns are being organized on June 30 to mark the World Social Media Day, platforms that are increasingly registering new users including in Romania….

On 28th June 2019, while in Greece with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met in Thessaloniki with His Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros of Alexandria and All Africa. The participants in the meeting, held at Makedonia…

His Eminence Archbishop Makarios Griniezakis was enthroned on Saturday 29th of June 2019, as the new Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, at the Holy Cathedral of the Annunciation of Virgin Mary on Cleveland Street in Redfern in Sydney. Archbishop Makarios was elected unanimously by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical…

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The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America is excited to announce a generous grant for Orthodox Christian Fellowship’s annual Summer Leadership Institute, a four-day training workshop for young adults ages 18-25. In response to a substantial shortfall in funds which put this year’s program at risk, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America authorized a grant of…

The Russian Orthodox Church has developed plans to construct its own Vatican to the tune of $2 billion in the Moscow region, the Vedomosti business daily reported on Thursday. Church officials have been in talks with officials in the city of Sergiyev Posad to transform it into the capital of Orthodoxy since 2017. Sergiyev Posad…

Hundreds of faithful, the hierarchy of the Australian Orthodox church and politicians gathered on Saturday in Sydney to attend the enthronement ceremony for Makarios, the new Archbishop of Australia. The ceremony followed by a liturgy took place at the Holy Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Theotokos. Makarios on Saturday became the sixth Archbishop of…

On Thursday, June 14/27, 2019, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of Holy Prophet Elisha at the Church dedicated to him, at the centre of the town of Jericho by the sycamore tree of Zachaeus. The Church honours St. Elisha, son of Saphat from the land of Abelmeholah as a great Prophet, who was called to…

The Romanian community of Central and Western New York was dressed in holiday clothes on June 15 and 16, 2019 when the Romanian church in Rochester / Victor NY, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, celebrated its feast day. The Joy began on the eve of Pentecost, Saturday, June 15, when the young lady Larisa was…