HRH Prince Charles of Wales attended an Orthodox service hosted by St George Romanian Parish in London in the presence of over 200 Romanians living in Great Britain on Thursday evening, February 14, 2019. The Parish of Saint George in London is under the canonical jurisdiction of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolis of Western and Southern…
President Salome Zurabishvili, along with her children, attended a service in Saint Nino Orthodox Church in Paris. The church was built by President Zourabichvili’s father Levan Zourabichvili, Chairman of the Georgian Diaspora in France. Archpriest Artchil recalled President Zourabichvili’s childhood when she was frequently visiting the church and singing in the choir. He wished the…
The Holy Synod of the Church of Cyprus on Monday issued a statement regarding the recent decisions regarding the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, emphasizing that the conferring of autocephaly for the latter, by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, was done with an aim towards consolidating peace and unity within the Ukrainian Church. “We do not dispute…
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The Holy Synod of the Church of Cyprus on Monday issued a statement regarding the recent decisions regarding the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, emphasizing that the conferring of autocephaly for the latter, by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, was done with an aim towards consolidating peace and unity within the Ukrainian Church. “We do not dispute…
A closely watched meeting between members of a committee tasked by the standing Holy Synod with conducting dialogue with the current government, on the one hand, and the education and religious affairs minister, will take place on Tuesday at the Petraki Monastery in northern Athens. The latest meeting comes within the framework of ongoing deliberations…
A general assembly of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s clergy has been convened for Thursday, Feb. 21, at the Aghios Eleftherios Cathedral in central Athens, in light of the fluid developments in Church-state relations. Representatives of all of the Holy Metropolises around Greece have been invited to attend.
In his interview to the Athens News Agency, Mr Gavroglu referred to changes in school text books, in the wake of the recent ratification of the Prespa agreement. He stressed that changes deal with historical, archaeological and education issues, ones he said are "under the prism of irredentist references, but also issues dealing with scholarly…
The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople has reiterated its positions on matter of Church-state relations in Greece as well as issue of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s autocephaly. The Patriarchate continues to calmly address the issues that have recently emerged, maintaining its standing positions, as enunciated by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, himself. “The Mother Church is not…