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07.04.2019 | 10:18
Ethnic Korean bishop appointed for Russian Church’s Korean Diocese
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…
07.04.2019 | 9:25
Ecumenical Patriarch attends service at Bulgarian Orthodox community’s Sts. Constantine & Helena Church in Adrianople
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,…
06.04.2019 | 16:42
Saint John of Damascus Institute of Theology: Activities during Lenten Season
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…
06.04.2019 | 12:43
Met. Hierotheos (Vlachos): Ukrainian autocephaly is matter for Ecumenical Council, not individual Holy Synods
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…
06.04.2019 | 12:31
The Patriarch Of Alexandria honours the Head of The National Guard of Cyprus
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…
06.04.2019 | 11:25
Pro-Moscow clerics call on Patriarch Bartholomew to walk back independence of Ukraine church
The Holy Synod of the former Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) at its Wednesday, April 3, 2019 meeting called on Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I to call off the tomos of autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU). “It should be noted that the actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in Ukraine…
06.04.2019 | 10:35
Holy Synod concerned about ‘Macedonian’ liturgy
The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece has expressed its concerns to Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios over the request he received from the small local Rainbow Party to grant his approval for the divine liturgy to be conducted in the “Macedonian language” to cater for speakers of the Southern Slavic language spoken in North Macedonia….
06.04.2019 | 10:25
What’s next for the Greek Orthodox Church of Australia?
The death of Archbishop Stylianos after 44 years at the helm of the Greek Orthodox Church in Australia has marked the end of an era. A larger-than-life energetic figure, Archbishop Stylianos has left behind a legacy. He welcomed people to the church regardless of their religious beliefs, and was a man of great open-mindedness that…
06.04.2019 | 9:43
1,000 faithful rally in honour of Holy Cross and for life in Romanian village
A mass of Romanian Orthodox faithful took to the streets, or rather, the dirt roads of the eastern Romanian village of Ion Creangă on Sunday, March 31, processing in honour of the Holy Cross of our Lord and in defense of the right to life. The crowd, about 1,000 strong, made its way up Muncelu…
