On Monday, December 18/31, 2018, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of our Father among the Saints Modestos Patriarch of Jerusalem at his Holy Chapel on Abu Tor hill, opposite the hill of Holy Sion, in New South Jerusalem. On this feast the Church commemorates St. Modestos, as the father who comforted the Church of Jerusalem…
On the Sunday of the Feast of the Forefathers, December 17/30, 2018, the Jerusalem Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of the Forefathers at the Holy Church dedicated to them which is also the patron Church of Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem. On this feast the Church honours the commemoration of the Forefathers of Christ who lived before…
His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church dedicated to Belgrade’s martyrs Paisus and Avacum in Altina on 30 December 2018, the feast day of Holy Martyrs Paisus and Avacum. The Patriarch was concelebrated by archpriests Zoran Perkovic, Jevgenji Lehac, Nebojsa Topolic, Slaven Vukomanovic and Georgije Kovac from the Diocese…
On Sunday of the Holy Forefathers, His Grace Bishop Maxim served the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the St. George parish in San Diego, California On December 30, 2018, the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers, His Grace Bishop Maxim served the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at St. George Serbian Orthodox Church in San Diego, California with the…
Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II congratulated the Georgian people on New Year. Ilia II asked people to be grateful to God to enjoy spiritual peace. “A person falls, but the God gives him/her strength to continue living. . . . Let the God desires to take all the bad with…
Head of the nearly created Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epifaniy believes that the year 2019 will bring Ukrainians hope for a victorious end of the war in the east of the country. “May the new year of the goodness of God give us hope for a victorious end of the war in the east…
Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople again promised that nothing can change his mind about granting autocephaly to Ukrainian schismatics no matter how much the Local Orthodox Churches protest. He also expressed his desire that the Churches would learn to respect Constantinople more. A video of the traditional cutting of the Vasilopita bread on December 31 at…
The relics of Saint George, a Christian saint, have been stolen from a church in the eastern Ukrainian Donetsk Region, the press service of the regional directorate of the Ukrainian National Police said in a statement on Wednesday. “A rector of a local church has informed the alert unit of the police office in Dobropolie…
A great spiritual event occurred on Christmas Eve in the Patriarchate of Alexandria as 72 catechumens were united to Christ in His Church in the Sacrament of Baptism. Another mass Baptism was celebrated a few days later. The service on December 24 was celebrated by His Eminence Metropolitan Panteleimon of Brazzaville and Gabon in the…