The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, this week received the visiting president of Moldava, Igor Dodon, at the Patriarchical seat in Moscow. In his greeting, His All Holiness welcomed the Moldavian head of state by noting that “every time you arrive in the Russian capital, we visit us. This demonstrates…

A video of the welcoming ceremony for the Metropolitan of Krinis and Kalamarias, His Eminence Ioustinos, to the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Saturday is available on the Orthodoxia News Agency’s web pages. His Eminence Ioustinos attended a wake and the Divine Liturgy for the Great Feast of the Evangelismos (Annunciation), based on…

The Orthodoxia News Agency’s web pages and the online magazine pemptousia.gr feature a new and very timely address by Archmandrite Elder Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi on the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mt. Athos. The address coincides with the presentation of a new edition by the Holy and Great…

The Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church held its first session this year at the Kiev Caves Lavra today under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, making several important decisions, including adding several feast days to the Church’s liturgical calendar, reports the Church’s website. The hierarchs discussed the…

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church gathered yesterday under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at Moscow’s Danilov Monastery. Among the Synod’s work was the appointment of hierarchs for several vacant dioceses, according to the report published on the official site of the Russian Orthodox Church. The…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Saturday visited the Sts. Constantine and Helena Orthodox Church in the city of Adrianople (modern-day Edirne), where the Divine Liturgy for the 4th Saturday of Great Lent was celebrated. The cathedral is focal point for the Bulgarian Orthodox community in the eastern Thrace city,…

On the occasion of Lenten season, the seminarians at the Saint John of Damascus at the University of Balamand carried out a series of pastoral visits to several parishes in the Archdiocese of Tripoli, Al-Koura, and their dependencies (Chekka, Fih and Amiyoun); and the Archdiocese of Byblos, Batroun and Dependencies (Btaboura, Hamat and Kfarhelda). In…

His Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos, widely considered one of the Orthodox Church’s foremost theologians today, has published his opinion on how the Church of Greece should respond to the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s actions in Ukraine. Discussing the history of how the Churches beyond the ancient Pentarchy became autocephalous, the content of their respective…

On Thursday 4th April 2019, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, welcomed with all honour to the See of the Patriarchate in Alexandria, the Chief of the National Guard of the Republic of Cyprus, Lieutenant-General Ilias Leontaris, as part of his official visit to Egypt. Chief Elias Leontaris was…