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…
The UOC hierarch conveyed greetings from His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry to Patriarch Neophyte. On May 27, 2019, the head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Neophyte, met with the hierarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the hero of Ukraine, Archbishop Longin (Zhar) of Bancheny, the official website of the Bulgarian Patriarchate reported. The meeting was…
At today’s meeting of the Council of Ministers, BGN 500 000 were granted for finishing works of Varna temple „St. Procopius of Varna „. The money is granted after Prime Minister Boyko Borisov visited the new temple and talked to the Metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav John. Metropolitan John thanked the Prime Minister, saying:…
Restoration of the church on the site of the first Russian settlement in California will begin soon, priest Alexander Volkov, the spokesman for Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, said. “Restoration of the church in Fort Ross, California, will begin in the near future. It is a place of significance,” the priest said at…
The presence of Orthodox Christianity is needed in Europe, and the Russian Orthodox Church is planning to open new churches there; in Cyprus and Sweden, in the immediate future. “Churches in Cyprus – in Limassol – and in Sweden will soon be put into service,” Father Alexander Volkov, the spokesman for Patriarch Kirill of Moscow…
GENEVA – World Council of Churches (WCC) General Secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit sent a welcoming letter to Metropolitan Elpidophoros of Bursa after his election by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate as the new Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Rev. Tveit wrote that “Within the joyful atmosphere…
At the invitation of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, His Grace, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, Interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA, joined the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of at a session devoted to ongoing plans for celebrations marking the 50th Anniversaries of the Granting of Autocephaly and the Glorification of…