It is with great joy that we inform our faithful Christian flock in Scandinavia, as well as the friends and supporters of the Holy Metropolis of Sweden and All Scandinavia, that His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will conduct an official visit to the see of our Holy Metropolis in Stockholm from September 28 – October…

The Archdiocese of Craiova is preparing for the International Meeting of Orthodox Youth (ITO2019) that will take place this autumn and will gather young people from all across the world urging for ‘faith, hope, and love.’ The organizing committee said that Craiova will become ‘the capital city of Orthodox Youth’ on September 5-8, 2019. The…

His Holiness Irinej, the Serbian Patriarch, served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of the Ascension of the Lord in Belgrade on 15 February 2019. His Holiness was concelebrated by protopresbyter-staurophor Nenad Popovic from Birmingham’s Lazarica; presbyters Arsenije Arsenijevic, dean of the church, Novo Gojic and Dusan Mihajlovic from the parish of Saint Nicholas…

On Friday, February 2/15, 2019, the Patriarchate celebrated the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple at the Holy Monastery of Panagia Sayda Naya, which is located near the Patriarchate at the Christian Quarter. On this Feast the Church celebrates the entrance of the Lord in the Temple of Solomon when He…

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Today, February 15, is the feast day of St. Onesimus the Apostle, for the Eastern Orthodox Church. Concerns were rampant within the Church hierarchy and among the faithful on Friday, a day after a razor-slim vote in Greece’s parliament conditionally approved revisions for the Greek constitution’s article 3, which delineates Church-state relations in the predominately…

Almost daily arrests of Christians in Iran, along with the jailing of priests, are the latest reports out of the Middle East country. Members of the shrinking Christian communities that remain in the country are reportedly observing sacraments in private, under the fear of arrest and attacks by Islamists. According to reports, such instances of…

  A new meeting, probably on Tuesday, is expected to take place between members of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s standing Holy Synod and the Greek education and religious affairs minister. Indications from the dialogue between the two sides so far shows that the Church is not willing to back down from its positions…

  A second vote in Greece’s parliament over a revision of Article 3 of the country’s constitution – which delineates Church-state relations – is set for March 13. Church sources that spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency after the first vote on Thursday afternoon referred to the possibility of initiatives by high-ranking ecclesiastical leaders and…