In international news, according to the official website of the Russian Patriarchate in Moscow, Metropolitan Mitrofan of Gorlovka and Slavyansk was detained at an internal checkpoint in the Ukraine and conveyed to the Slavyansk municipal police station. The hierarch later stated that the incident is the result of efforts to pressure him into accepting the…

The Metropolitan of Glyfada, Pavlos, passed away in the early morning hours of Tuesday at an Athens-area hospital. A funeral service will be held on Thursday, Feb. 21, at noon at the St.Constantine and Helen Cathedral in Glyfada, a municipality in coastal southeast Athens.

Α meeting today between members of a committee of dialogue – established by the Church of Greece’s Holy Synod – and Greek Education Minister Kostas Gavroglu, was concluded in the early afternoon. Committee members later issued a statement related to the meeting, first stressing that representatives of both the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece, and…

Today, Feb. 19, is the feast day of St. Filothei, who was born in 1522 in Ottoman-occupied Athens. Both of Filothei’s parents were descended from noble Byzantine families, and Filothei was the couple’s only and dearly-beloved child. She was renowned for her extensive philanthropy for the Christian faithful, amid the harsh rule of the Ottoman…

Marking Dobre Dobrev’s 1st death anniversary, Fr Kiril Sinev, a Bulgarian priest who serves in Ruse, told the Basilica News Agency how people remember the saintly grandfather who devoted himself to raising money for Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church. Father Kiril Sinev said that even the Elder’s name Dobre (which derives from the Bulgarian word dobar, good)…

With the Blessings of His Eminence Archbishop Stylianos Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, on Sunday 17 February 2019 at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of “The Annunciation of Our Lady” at Redfern, His Grace Bishop Seraphim of Apollonias, serviced the Divine Liturgy and Ordained to the Holy Diaconate, graduate and faculty member of…

Today, Feb. 19, is the feast day of St. Filothei, who was born in 1522 in Ottoman-occupied Athens. Both of Filothei’s parents were descended from noble Byzantine families, and Filothei was the couple’s only and dearly-beloved child. She was renowned for her extensive philanthropy for the Christian faithful, amid the harsh rule of the Ottoman…

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