On Thursday, June 6, 2019, on the commemoration of the Holy Ascension of Our Lord , His Eminence Metropolitan Jonah Lwanga presided over a meeting with the clergy from the Orthodox Church deaneries of Central and All western Uganda. This instrumental meeting was organized with the aim of discussing on the various ways in which…

His Eminence Metropolitan Daniil of Vidin has been perhaps the most outspoken hierarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church on the ongoing Ukrainian crisis situation. Along with two other metropolitans, he called for the Synod to call for a pan-Orthodox council, and he was the first Orthodox hierarch to publicly denounce the “unification council” on December 15 by which…

On 5th June 2019, in Geneva, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met with Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC). At the beginning of the meeting, Metropolitan Hilarion conveyed to the WCC General Secretary warm greetings from His Holiness…

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The Saint Maxim the Greek Institute, with the support of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi, is introducing the ‘Evyenios Voulgaris’ Scholarship Programme. Evyenios Voulgaris (1716-1806) served as principal of the Athoniada School, which had been established by the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi. In his day, he was the greatest and most important Greek…

With great concern, the Diocese of Raška-Prizren has received information about an announcement specifying the beginning of construction work on the site of an old Serbian medieval church, that of St. Nicholas, which was the cathedral church for the Serbian Orthodox bishops of Novo Brdo and Gračanica, and which is located near the Novo Brdo…

Opening address by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania at the International Conference on the relations between the State and religious denominations in the European Union, at the Palace of the Patriarchate, Friday, June 7, 2019. Importance of Church-State cooperation in the European context According to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union…

In Russia, miners of an underground facility in the western city of Zverevo witnessed the local Russian Orthodox bishop, His Grace Simon, come down 700 meters below the earth’s surface to pray for their safety, health and prosperity. A small chapel has been built at the mine’s entrance, dedicated to the 3rd century martyr St….

In Bucharest, the Romanian Orthodox Patriarchate, in an announcement on Thursday, referred to the nation’s saints and heroes, in commemoration of the Feast Day of the Holy Ascension, which coincides with Heroes’ Day in the country. The day is celebrated on the 40th day from Orthodox Easter. Although not a public holiday, the day is…