An agreement was signed this week by the Russian Cultural and Science Center in Belgrade to continue Moscow’s support for the restoration of the St. Sava Cathedral in Belgrade, with the primary sponsor being the Russian company Gazprom Neft.  

    His All Holiness Bartholomew attempted to allay concerns in Serbia, expressed by both the Serbian Orthodox Church as well as a majority of the faithful in the country, who reportedly disagree with the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s recent decisions on autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Bartholomew granted an interview, where he offered explanations over…

    The Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X, received a delegation of Ecumenical Patriarchate hierarchs this week at the Monastery of St. Elias, north of Beirut, Lebanon.

  The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, will preside in coming period over several major issues facing the Ecumenical Patriarchate, such as the Ukrainian Church autocephaly, contacts with other Patriarchates and autocephalous Churches. The Ecumenical Patriarch also referred to the passing of the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Australia, Stylianos, saying discussions…

  On the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mt. Athos, a thanksgiving service on the occasion of Greek Independence Day was celebrated at the main Protato Cathedral, in the community’s capital, Karyes, as well as at the Megistis Lavras Monastery and the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi

  In Jerusalem, His All Godly Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem, officiated at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, along with the Metropolitans of the Holy Lands and monks of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulcher.

  The Annunciation Feast Day was celebrated in grand splendor by the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa, with the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, officiating at the Divine Liturgy at the Annunciation, or Evangelismos, Orthodox Cathedral in the ancient Egyptian city. Greece’s general consul in the…

  Monday, March 25, was also Greek Independence Day, with Greece and Hellenism worldwide celebrating the 198th anniversary of the start of the revolution against dour Ottoman rule. The Orthodoxia news agency’s web pages this week feature extensive reports, interviews, historical texts and videos on both the major religious and national commemorations in Greece, which…

  Today marks the Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel for the Orthodox Church, a day after the Major Feast Day of the Annunciation, which celebrates the announcement by the Archangel to the Blessed Virgin Mary that she would conceive Jesus, the Son of God.