Priest Stanislav Nasadil was canonized on Sunday, June 9 by the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia. Stanislav Nasadil was born on October 20, 1907 in Loštice, Moravia. He studied theology at Sremski Karlovci and Bitola, Yugoslavia (1923-1928). As an Orthodox priest, he ministered in Lička Jesenica, Croatia. In 1941, during World War…

On June 9, 2019, on the 7th Week after Easter, of the holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council, the icon of St. Seraphim of Sarov was donated to the Dormition Cathedral in the city of London. With the blessing of the Metropolitan Georgy of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, the icon of Venerable Seraphim, painted…

Monastic life has been revived in one of the main monasteries of the Russian North: the hermitage dedicated to St. Nilus the Abbot of Sora. It was built in the fifteenth-seventeenth century in the Vologda region. The decision to open a monastery dedicated to St. Nilus in the Kirillov district in the Vologda region was…

The Romanian Patriarchate learned with deep indignation about the theatre play ‘Eu sunt. Si?’ (‘I am. So?’) performed in Cluj-Napoca during the ‘Pride Week’ of sexual minorities. The indecent content of this representation includes the mocking of Christian religious symbols, sending a deliberately blasphemous message. Such offensive attitudes towards the overwhelming majority of Romanians, the…

The decisions of the Israeli courts that allowed seizure by Israeli settler groups of Greek Orthodox Church property located in Jaffa Gate area of Jerusalem’s Old City are unfair and will be further legally challenged, according to a statement issued yesterday by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. It declared its “full opposition to the…

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The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate this week unanimously elected the Metropolitan of Dardanelles, His Eminence Nikitas, as the new Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, succeeding Archbishop Gregorios, who announced his retirement last month. According to the Patriarchate’s website, Nikitas was born in 1955 in Tampa, Florida where he was raised with his…

The Patriarchate of Georgia is readying its 59th mass baptism, part of an ongoing initiative by the Orthodox Church in the country to assist efforts to combat a low birth rate. The first mass baptism of infants was held back in January 2008, with the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church, His Holiness and Beatitude…

The new Archbishop-elect of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, will arrive in Australia on June 18, where he will be welcomed with due honors by clerics and lay people. His Eminence will be enthroned on June 29 at the Cathedral of the Annunciation of Our Lady. Read the announcement of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia…