Four new assistant bishops were appointed during Wednesday’s session of the permanent Holy Synod meeting on Wednesday. Archimandrite Filotheos Theoharis was appointed as the new first secretary of the Church of Greece’s Holy Synod. Archimandrite Chrysostomos Panagopoulos was elected as an assistant bishop at the Archdiocese of Athens. Archimandrite Agapios Dritsas was elected as…

  A new chapter in Church-state relations more-or-less emerged yesterday, in the wake of a permanent Holy Synod decision to reject the current government’s proposal for a change in clerics’ payroll regime — as well as a proposed constitutional revision aimed at enshrining the state’s so-called “religious neutrality”. Church hierarchs stressed that dialogue with the…

On March 17, 2019, the First Sunday of Lent, the Triumph of Orthodoxy, and the commemoration day of the Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow, His Beatitude Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, celebrated the Liturgy of St. Basil the Great and the Service of the Triumph of Orthodoxy at the Cathedral Church of Christ…

Young scientists from Ural Federal University and Higher School of Economics are trying to understand whether the Internet has influenced Orthodox Christianity, and how the social institution and social practices could have been transformed in the conditions of widespread media, Eurek Alert reports. The project “Social media as a factor in the transformation of Orthodoxy…

Greece’s education and religious affairs ministry on Wednesday evening issued an angry response to the decision by members of the Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod to decline any discussion over changes in clerics’ payroll regime. The Tsipras government has tried over the past few months to achieve the Church’s acquiescence to a plan altering the…

On 20 March 2019, a session of the Supreme Church Council of the Russian Orthodox Church took place at the Supreme Church Council’s Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour under chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. At the beginning of the session His Holiness addressed those gathered and…

Construction of the new St. Sophia Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral in Warsaw, Poland is proceeding at a fast pace, according to an announcement issued by Polish Orthodox Church, which also thanked the faithful for their donations.

The Russian Orthodox Church’s Metropolitan of Volo-kolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, referred to the Russian Patriarch’s pending visit to North Korea, adding however, that a date has not been set. In a television appearance, His Eminence Hilarion, who is the chairman of the Moscow Church’s department of external relations, added that the Patriarch of Russia and…

  The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week granted an interview to the Serbian newspaper “Politika”. Among others, the Ecumenical Patriarch emphasized that “…whatever the Ecumenical Patriarchate is and holds, it owes to the Church. We are not a self-made entity, but an existence that arose with the grace of…