His Beatitude, Theodore II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, this week flew from Pointe-Noire, in the Republic of the Congo, for the country’s capital, Brazzaville. Theodore is on a tour of the west Africa country. In Brazzaville, the Patriarch traveled by vessel along the Congo River to Kinshasa, the capital of…

  The Patriarch of Georgia, His Beatitude Ilia II, on Wednesday received the Metropolitan of Borispol and Brovary, His Eminence Anthony, who is also the chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP). The meeting was unofficial in nature, and reportedly aimed to exchange information over recent ecclesiastical developments in the…

  The Orthodox Patriarch of Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, this week chaired sessions of a national church council, convened at the patriarchal residence in Bucharest. Members of the council are tasked with assessing the Romanian Orthodox Church’s activities in 2018. Daniel cited the report, presented on Tuesday to members of the national council, and stressed…

Metropolitan Anthony (Pakanich) was accompanied by the deputy head of the DECR, Protopriest Nikolai Danilevich. On February 20, 2019, the UOC chancellor, Metropolitan Anthony (Pakanich) of Borispol and Brovary, discussed with His Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of All Georgia and the hierarchs of the Georgian Orthodox Church the current events in the church life of…

The Annual Meeting of the Council of the Metropolia of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA began on a high note as the members of the council participated in Divine Liturgy on the Feast Day of the Meeting of our Lord and Savior. With the Seminarians of the St. Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Theological Seminary…

A memorial service was held this week on the one-year anniversary of the death Dobri Dimitrov Dobrev, better known as Grandpa Dobri, a Bulgarian ascetic who walked some 20 kilometers each day to sit or stand in front of the Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky in Sofia, in order to collect money for charitable causes.

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Yesterday’s meeting between members of a Church of Greece-affiliated committee of dialogue, with the Education Minister, Kostas Gavroglu, proved fruitless. According to reports that emerged after the meeting, this specific round of talks may have reached an impasse. Members of the committee have also previously stressed that certain issues, such as the payroll regime for…

The Georgian Orthodox Church sent a delegation to Abu Dhabi earlier this month for an international inter-faith gathering entitled “Global Conference for Human Fraternity”, an event that attended by various religious leaders.