The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, will arrive in Athens on Wednesday to attend the inauguration of an elderly care unit and geriatric research center in the coastal township of Dilesi. The Patriarch’s arrival will include a closely watched meeting with Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, as…

The Orthodox Church today, May 21, venerates Sts. Constantine and Helen, known as the feast day of the Holy and Great Sovereigns. The commemoration of Sts. Constantine and Helen is celebrated with a Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, conducted on the morning of the feast day and preceded by an Orthros service. A Great…

  On May 19, 2019, the fourth Sunday after Pascha, Metropolitan Varsonofy of St. Petersburg and Ladoga celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in the St. Alexander Nevsky Laura. Among his concelebrants were the head of the Archdiocese of Antioch in North America, Archbishop Joseph of New York and Metropolitan…

Over 1,000 pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Roman and Bacau travelled to Putna Monastery together with their Archbishop Ioachim to celebrate the feast day of Saint Jacob of Putna on Wednesday, May 15, 2019. ‘On the 300th birthday anniversary of Saint Jacob of Putna, the Lower Land travelled to the Upper Land,’ the abbot of…

The publishing and information institution of the Metropoly of the Montenegro-Coastlands “Svetigora” presented a set of selected works of His Eminence Archbishop of Cetinje and Metropolitan of Montenegro-Coastlands Dr. Amfilohije. The collected works of this Serbian Church dignitary consist of 30 titles in 36 volumes! His Excellency Metropolitan Dr. Porfirije of Zagreb-Ljubljana, His Grace Bishop…

His Holiness the Serbian Patriarch Irinej received in audience His Excellency Alexander Chepurin, ambassador of the Russian Federation in Belgrade; the reception took place in the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade on May 20, 2019. spc.rs

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Two infant twins that miraculously survived a serious illness in far-off Madagascar, following the intervention by the Orthodox mission in the bishopric of Toliara, in the island nation’s south, were baptized recently, with the given names being Cosmas and Damianos – two early Christian twin brothers and physicians.

The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Kirill, this week visited the Butovo memorial and museum on the outskirts of Moscow. The site, once a firing range, was used by the Bolsheviks after 1917 as an execution site. Thousands of Church hierarchs, clergymen and Orthodox faithful were executed at the site, including 10 Greek…