The Metropolitan of Messinia, His Eminence Chrysostomos, this week echoed the Holy Synod’s position sensitive issue of Church-state relations, in the wake of the current Greek government’s insistence on changes, namely, that “… dialogue without ‘red lines’ and conditions is not a true dialogue, but a never-ending monologue.” His statement was included in an open…

The enthronements of three new Metropolitans of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece will take place this week. The three Metropolitans were elected by Church hierarchs at an extraordinary Holy Synod session on March 20. Specifically, the new Metropolitan of Glyfada, His Eminence Antonios, will be enthroned on Tuesday at the Sts. Constantine and Helen…

The sixth and last week of the Great and Holy Lent is called the “week of Palms” for the Orthodox Church. For the faithful, the last week of Lent is considered as the “silent week”, with one explanation being the absence of the celebratory Salutations for the Holy Theotokos, the Virgin Mary.

His Holiness the Patriarch visited the Holy Archangels Monastery not far from Prizren, foundation of Serbian Emperor Dusan, and got familiar with the renovation works of this great sanctuary that has been destroyed many time throughout the history. The Patriarch was welcomed by abbot Mihailo and his brotherhood. Patriarch Irinej then visited, according to his…

His Eminence Archbishop Daniel celebrated the Great Consecration of the Altar for the Venerable Job of Pochaiv Parish of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA in Los Alamos, NM on Akathist Saturday, April 13, 2019. Assisted by the pastor of the parish community Rev. Fr. Theophan Mackey and Very Rev. Fr. Gabriel Rochelle of…

The Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam of Ploiesti on Sunday performed the ordination to the diaconate of Basilica News Agency’s Editor Iulian Dumitrascu noting that he is ‘a hope for an enhanced work in a parish that is already distinguished by a multitude of spiritual and social works’. The ordination was performed during the Divine Liturgy…

  The Chancellery of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church published a report presenting information about the attendance of believers at the consecration of the National Cathedral in Bucharest, giving the exact names of parishes and group attendants. As estimated by the Romanian Gendarmerie, approximately 150,000 people visited the National Cathedral and venerated…

On April 12, 2019, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with the Russian Federation Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, at the patriarchal working residence in Chisty Pereulok. The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church pointed to the high level of cooperation between the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations and the…

Believers, who after the seizure of the Holy Protection temple, temporarily prayed in the church house, were told by telephone that their property was on the road. On the morning of April 12, at about 8:00, opponents of the canonical Church in the village of Kurozvany in Goshcha district in Rovno region broke down the…