Numerous legal challenges have been filed in Ukrainian courts over the issue of autocephaly granted to the Orthodox Church of the Ukraine. A regional court this month threw out a lawsuit filed by a group of citizens, who claimed that the country’s president did not have the right to request – from the Ecumenical Patriarchate…

A new ultra-modern medical diagnostics center will open in May at the Hospital of St. Alexis the Metropolitan of Moscow. The center, also in the Russian capital, has received the blessing of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, and is being built and equipped from donations gathered by churches and monasteries in…

The Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Bishop of Dervis, His Grace Ezekiel, will serve as the Patriarchate’s commissioner to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, following the passing last week of Archbishop of Australia Stylianos. His Grace Ezekiel had previously served as an auxiliary bishop to Stylianos. The passing of the much beloved Archbishop of Australia rekindled discussions…

 Only a laconic statement this week by the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, referred to developments regarding Church-state relations. The government’s proposals for changes in Church-state relations have been the object of a dialogue between members of a committee appointed by the Church of Greece’s Holy Synod and the education ministry’s…

  Today, Thursday, March 28, marks the feast day for the Venerable Hilarion the New, a 9th century Abbot of the Pelecete monastery near the Marmara Sea settlement known as Triglia in the Middle Ages, in northwest Asia Minor.   Hilarion the New was well-known during his lifetime for his ascetic routine and his defense of…

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania welcomed at his patriarchal residence the manager of US President Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign on Friday, March 22, 2019. The meeting was also attended by Brad Parscale’s spouse, Mrs. Candice Blount, prof. Dan Dungaciu, head of the Ion I. C. Bratianu Institute for Political Science and International Relations…

On Sunday March 11/24, 2019, on the second Sunday of Great Lent, on the commemoration of St. Gregory Palamas, the Patriarchate also celebrated the Name Day of H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos, which for reasons related to the Status Quo has been transferred from its actual day of March 9/22, day of…

On Monday, March 12/25, 2019, a Doxology was held on the occasion of the National anniversary of March 25 1821 at the Catholicon of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where there was a special prayer for the repose of the souls of the Fathers of our Nation who fell heroically during the years of…

On Monday evening March 12/25, 2019, the school ceremony for the anniversary of March 25 1821 took place at the Patriarchal School for Priests in Holy Zion. The ceremony was honoured by the presence of H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos, escorted by Geronda Secretary-General Most Reverend Archbishop Aristarchos of Constantina, the Most…