The Archbishop-elect of America, His Eminence Elpidoforos, continued his whirlwind itinerary of meetings and contacts with Church hierarchs and members of ethnic Greek communities this week, after arriving in New York City on Wednesday. Elpidoforos, who will be enthroned on Saturday at the Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral in Manhattan, gave a press conference on…

President Milo Djukanovic rejected calls to scrap a draft law that includes a register of religious buildings owned by Montenegro before 1918, which the Serbian Orthodox Church claims is a pretext for disputing its property holdings. President Milo Djukanovic said on Monday that he will not allow anyone to take away what belongs to Montenegro…

On June 19, 2019, the commemoration day of his heavenly patron – St. Hilarion the New and the 32th anniversary of his monastic vows, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, DECR chairman and rector of the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies (CMI), celebrated Divine Liturgy in the church of Holy Martyrs Michael and Theodore…

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR) has met with Hungary’s Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén. Present at the meeting from the DECR were Archimandrite Philaret (Bulekov), DECR vice-chairman, and Deacon Andrey Titushkin, DECR secretariat for the far abroad. From the Hungarian side there were Mr. Péter…

Four Greek and Antiochian Orthodox churches joined forces to present a spring concert on Friday, June 14, to benefit the Holy Cross Outreach Center and its Feeding the Homeless Ministry. Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church, St. Mary’s Antiochian Orthodox Church, St. Nicholas Antiochian Cathedral and St. Nino Georgian Orthodox Church helped sponsor the event that…

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk received Mar Ishaq Yusip (Assyrian Church of the East), Metropolitan of the diocese of Nohadra, Mosul and the CIS countries, at the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations. Present at the meeting were also Chorebishop Samano Odisho, rector of the Moscow Church of Mat Mariam, and Hieromonk Stephen (Igumnov), DECR…

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America released a statement saying that the Archdiocese “is committed to full transparency” after U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that George Papadakos, the Archdiocese’s former Director of Finance, has pled guilty to embezzling more than $60,000 of Archdiocesan funds for personal expenses. “As previously communicated to the Faithful by the Archdiocese,…

The Cincture of the Theotokos, known as the Haghia Zoni, or Holy Sash in Greek, was received with head of state honors on Thursday afternoon in the northern Greek city of Drama. The Holy Relic was conveyed to the city by Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, who…

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex M. Azar II will represent the President of the United States at the Enthronement Ceremony of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, Saturday, June 22, 2019 at 11:00 am, at the Holy Trinity Archdiocesan Cathedral. Secretary Azar, an Orthodox Christian of the Antiochian Archdiocese, will offer welcome remarks…