A closely-watched meeting of the Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod’s is set for this week, with crucial issues on hierarchs’ agenda, such as the current government’s initiative to change Church-state relations — changes that many hierarchs warn could alter the country’s religious and national identity. The official agenda also includes the issue of the…

Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos II, officiated at the Sunday of Orthodoxy service at the Athens Metropolitan Cathedral, along with several hierarchs of the Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod. Greek President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos represented the Greek state, with representatives of the country’s armed forces and law enforcement…

Having already attacked a number of clergy and laity, including matushkas, “activists” from the Ukrainian schismatic church recently attacked a nun as well. Nun Dimitria (Pasevich) from the Holy Protection Monastery in the village of Olkha submitted a statement to the local national police department in the Zhytomyr Province on the bodily injuries caused to…

A new cross was blessed and erected yesterday and today for the restored Royal Passion-Bearers Church at the Royal Passion-Bearers Monastery at the Ganina Yama ravine outside Ekaterinburg. The blessing was celebrated yesterday by His Eminence Metropolitan Kirill of Ekaterinburg and Verkhotursky, Abbot Leonty (Kozlov), and the clergy of the monastery, reports the Ekaterinburg Diocese….

In a wave of violence in Kosovo and Metohija 19 people were then killed, eight of them Serbs, while 11 Albanians were killed in the clash with members of the international security forces. At least 170 Serbs were injured as well as dozens of members of the international forces who clashed with local Albanians while…

Finally, the Sunday of Orthodoxy was celebrated in Byzantine splendor at the Most Venerable Patriarchal Church of St. Georgios (George) on Sunday, with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople-New Rome, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, officiating. During the divine liturgy Demetrios Nikiforos, a doctoral candidate of canon law at the University of Cardiff, was ordained as…

The celebratory liturgy of Sunday of Orthodoxy was held at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi according to centuries-old ecclesiastical traditions, with the Metropolitan of Prikonissos, His Eminence Joseph, officiating. His Eminence Joseph arrived on the semi-autonomous Orthodox monastic community of Mt. Athos this week. During the divine liturgy, two ordinations of Orthodox priests…

Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos II, officiated at the Sunday of Orthodoxy liturgy at the Athens Metropolitan Cathedral, along with several hierarchs of the Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod. Greek President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos represented the Greek state, with representatives of the country’s armed forces and law enforcement…

The Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy was celebrated on Sunday, March 17, in Orthodox cathedrals and parishes the world over. A celebratory liturgy, held on the first Sunday of Great Lent, commemorates the final restoration, in 843 A.D. by the Empress and later St. Theodora, of icons for use in ecclesiastical services and the…