On Wednesday, May 23/ June 5, 2019, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the Apodosis of Pascha, which is the completion of forty days after the glorious Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. On this day the Church service is exactly the same as that of the day of Pascha, without the Biblical readings. For…

Because sometimes the Romanian media refers to the glorification of the persons who suffered persecutions during the communist regime in our country or even died in the communist jails, we provide the following information: The canonization of Saints has the role to profess, to strengthen and to convey the true faith so as to guide…

His Holiness Irinej – Patriarch of Serbia met His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East and head of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church and His Beatitude John X – Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch at the St. Georges Patriarchal Cathedral on 2nd June 2019. The Hierarchs of the…

In the actions undertaken by the Patriarchate of Constantinople in Ukraine to recognize and merge two groups headed by two schismatics (one of them is anathematized) and to present thus created structure with “autocephaly”, which has not been recognized by any of the other Orthodox Churches, there is nothing that would have been done in…

On 1 June 2019, a delegation of the Serbian Orthodox Church headed by His Holiness Patriarch Irinej was solemnly met at the Mariamia Cathedral in Damascus and warmly welcomed by the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Antioch, His Beatitude Patriarch John X, an assembly of bishops, clergymen and laypersons. After the Doxology that was…

On 27-31 May 2019, the Commission for Dialogue between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Coptic Church held its 3rd session. The delegation of the Moscow Patriarchate included Bishop Gennady of Kaskelen – co-chairman of the Commission; Hieromonk Stefan (Igumnov), secretary for inter-Christian relations of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR); Rev. Viktor…

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The inauguration of two new assisted-living facilities, by the Archdiocese of Athens’ Maria Kokkori Foundation, was held on Tuesday in the Varnava township, due north of the greater Athens area. The inauguration was attended by Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos. The two new units are named…

The Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Grace Hilarion, this week referred to the possibility of an official visit to the country by the Roman Catholic Pope. Hilarion, who is also the chairman of the Russian Church’s department of external relations and a permanent member of its Holy Synod, spoke during an interview to a Swiss news…