On Holy and Great Friday, April 26, 2019, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided over the service of the Apokathelosis (Taking down from the Cross) at the Patriarchal Church of St. George the Great Martyr. — Photo credit: Nikos Manginas / Ecumenical Patriarchate
Holy and Great Friday was commemorated at the Patriarchate of Antioch in Damascus, Syria, presided over by His Beatitude Patriarch John. — Source: theorthodoxworld.com
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Thursday received Greece’s main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the patriarchate in Phanar, Istanbul. “It is with a great pleasure, both for me and the Ecumenical Patriarchate, to receive you here in Phanar on Holy Thursday, on the eve of the Resurrection,” Bartholomew said, greeting Mitsotakis. “I wanted an opportunity to…
Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II performed a symbolic ritual of removal of Jesus Christ’ body from the cross, at Sameba (Holy Trinity) Cathedral today. Today is Holy Friday, also known as Red Friday, a day when Orthodox Christians commemorate crucifixion of Jesus Christ. This day is the hardest among the days of Holy…
2019 Paschal (Easter) Message in English of His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, Geron of America, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
We ask for a lot more and forget to be grateful, – Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II preached after the Great Thursday sermon. According to him, a human should be grateful for God’s great mercy. The Orthodox Christendom marks Great Thursday today. Great Thursday is the Christian feast or holy…
The road to the Davit Gareji monastery, which was closed by the Azeri border guards, has been opened. As archimandrite Kiril told InterPressNews, pilgrims, local residents and tourists can freely move to the monastery at this time. The Azeri border guards had closed the road and had not been letting clergymen in the monastery for…
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The hierarchs of the Romanian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod attended the consecration of the Holy Chrism, of myrrh, at the Patriarchical Cathedral in the Romanian capital. A video is posted today on the Orthodoxia news agency’s web pages.