For over 30 years, the Metropolis of San Francisco Philoptochos has been providing financial assistance to its seminarians and students through the Bishop Anthony Philoptochos Student Aid Endowment Fund. In the early years of this endowment, students were given gifts of just $25 or $50, but they were received with heartfelt gratitude by the students….

The Georgian Orthodox Church celebrates St. Nino Day on June 1 – the day of arrival of the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Nino, enlightened by the light of the Gospel teaching. Saint Nino entered Georgia with a cross of vine wrapped around her hair. On June 1, in 319, St. Nino arrived in Georgia, and in 323,…

On 29 May 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with Bishop Qais of Ardrum who arrived in Moscow to take part in the international conference on ‘Violation of the rights of believers in Ukraine.’ They were joined in the meeting by Rev. Dimitry Safonov,…

On 29 May 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with Metropolitan Daniel of Vidin, Bulgarian Orthodox Church, currently in Moscow on a trip as head of the group of teachers of the foundations of Orthodoxy in the educational institutions of Bulgaria. They were joined…

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The Orthodox Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland, His Eminence Sawa, was honored on Thursday with the Ring of the Independence of the Republic of Poland The award is part of a project linked with celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Poland’s independence. It is bestowed to individuals who have contributed to the security of the…

The Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Raska-Prizren, His Grace Teodosije, this week reiterated his and Orthodox clerics’ stern condemnation of the latest violence against civilians in the northern part of Kosovo. According to Teodosije, the attacks against the Orthodox faithful in Kosovo and Metohja are a “pogrom”, and an attempt to intimidate the remaining Serbs in…

A spokesman for the Patriarchate of Moscow, Vladimir Legoida, this week referred to the role of the Ecumenical Patriarch regarding the contentious issue of Autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, as well as recent contacts initiated by the Archbishop of Cyprus, His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, over the same issue. According to the Legoida, the Moscow…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, today convenes the 3rd International Halki Conference on Theological Formation and Ecological Awareness, which lasts until June 4. The conference brings together some 50 distinguished theologians and specialists from 40 seminaries and institutes around the world. The international conference is considered as a scientific roundtable,…