Тhe Bulgarian Orthodox Church honors today the Ascension of the Lord, also called Spasovden. It is always celebrated on Thursday, the 40th day after the Resurrection of Christ – Easter. According to the New Testament, 40 days after his resurrection, Jesus Christ remained on earth to preach his study and talk to the apostles. In…

The Georgian Orthodox Church marks Ascension Day today. A festive prayer will be conducted at all acting churches across the country on this occasion. Together with the priests, Metropolitan Shio, Patriarch’s locum tenens will conduct the church service at the Sameba (Holy Trinity) Cathedral in Tbilisi. The Ascension is one of the great feasts in…

On Tuesday evening, May 22/ June 4, 2019, on the eve of the Apodosis of Pascha, the Minister of Social Affairs and vice Minister of Human Resources of Hungary Mr. Zoltán Balog visited the Patriarchate, escorted by the representative of Hungary in Ramallah Dr. Mihail Rada Csaba and his associates. The representatives of Hungary were…

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…