On January 9, 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, who is on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land with a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at Gorny Convent of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission. During the service at the convent’s Cathedral of All Saints, he was assisted…

His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America appointed His Grace Bishop Apostolos of Medeia as spiritual advisor of the National Greek Orthodox Ladies Philoptochos Society. Bishop Apostolos, who is the chief secretary of the Holy Eparchial Synod assumes the responsibility of spiritual advisor to the National Philoptochos following in the steps of His Grace Bishop Sevastianos…

Offering his reflections on the Theophany of the Lord, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel noted that through the words, ‘This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased’, the Heavenly Father also referred to the entire humankind which through Baptism was immersed in the grace and love of the Holy Trinity. Therefore, the patriarch…

The unity of the Church is the gift of God and a co-responsibility of the clergy and the lay faithful Message of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, at the International Theological Conference “Panorthodox Unity and Synodality“, Iaşi, 9-12 January 2019. In contemporary society, characterised by increased secularisation, i.e. through relativisation of…

RS Day was celebrated on Wednesday, January 9, 2019 in Banja Luka and in other towns of the Serb Republic (RS). On this day in 1992, the Assembly of the Serb People of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) established the Serb Republic – which became one of the two entities in BiH after the end of the war…

Russian Patriarch Kirill says the capacity to collect data from devices such as smart phones could bring the humanity closer to the arrival of the Antichrist. In an interview broadcast by the state television, Kirill said that while the Church does not oppose technological progress, it is worried because via these device, “someone can know…

The Inaugural Conference of the International Orthodox Theological Association began on Wednesday, January 9, 2019, with a Te Deum Service officiated by the Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bukovina at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Iași. The overarching theme of the Inaugural Conference is Pan-Orthodox Unity and Conciliarity. The Opening Ceremony took place at the National…

Α community cleanup event to protect and preserve the Agios Panteleimonas Monastery, in the Turkish-occupied village of Myrtou, will take place on Thursday, January 10. Representatives from the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage, the European Commission and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will participate in the “Caring for our Cultural Heritage” event, a joint…

The independence decree, or tomos, granting autocephaly to the newly established Orthodox Church of Ukraine, has been taken away from the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev and its present location is unknown, Ukraine’s Pryamiy TV channel reported on Tuesday. According to Pryamiy TV, the tomos was taken from Saint Sophia Cathedral by members of the…