Sessions of an international congress, under the auspices of Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, began in Thessaloniki on Wednesday — at the Aristotle University faculty of theology. The conference is entitled “The Timeliness of Patristic Studies in the Modern World”. A representative of the Patriarchate, Metropolitan of Kassandria, His Eminence Nicodimos, read out…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Irinej, this week received a representative of the Russian Orthodox Church, Bishop Nikolai. According to reports, discussions touched on the brotherly ties between the Slavic peoples of Russia and Serbia, both indelibly linked with the Byzantine missionaries Cyril and Methodius – the Apostles to the Slavs. The Serbian Patriarch…

A Romanian Orthodox Church skete is set to reopen in the Jordan Valley after half a century. Father Theophilos Anastasoe, the representative of the Romanian Patriarchate in the Holy Land, acquired a necessary license from Jordanian authorities for the skete to operate as a place of worship in the West Bank. According to Father Theophilos,…

A feature today on the webpages of the Orthodoxia News Agency profiles a Monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary, on the eastern Aegean island of Chios, at the Pagousaina site. The medieval monastery is located in the island’s north, some 52 kilometers from the capital city, and built on the slopes of a mountain, and…

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Members of an association of Pontian Greek youth from central Athens, known as the “Black Sea Association”, this week put on a brief dance performance atop the Great Wall of China, in honor of the 100-year anniversary of the Pontian Genocide. Members of the group travelled to far-off China to participate in events commemorating the…

The Sunday of the Samaritan Woman (May 26, 2019) was the occasion for spiritual joy for the Orthodox believers from the church dedicated to Saint Paraskeva in Pozarevac, Serbia. The Divine Liturgy was celebrated by local Bishop Ignatije of Branicevo together with Bishop Siluan of the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Hungary and the Bishop of…

The Patriarchate of Constantinople restored the canonicity of the people that was outside the Church for no dogmatic reason, the head of the Phanar said. We consider it a great blessing from God that the Ecumenical Patriarchate managed to restore the canonicity of an entire multi-million nation, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople said in an interview about his…

A Roman Catholic family of five members joined the Russian Orthodox Church in Pakistan as it was reported on its page on Facebook. They were welcomed by Fr. Paul Sushil (Priest of the Russian Orthodox Church in Pakistan– Moscow Patriarchate). Mr. Richard Nazeer, Ephraim, Juliana, Philip, Peter, and Maximus are the new members of the Orthodox Church…