The Sunday of Forgiveness, the Divine Liturgy at Holy Resurrection Cathedral – Jinja was celebrated by the Vicar General, Fr Chrysostom Koolya, assisted by Hierodeacon Moses Ssekubunga. The Holy Fathers have appointed the commemoration of Adam’s exile from the Paradise of delight here, on the eve of the holy Forty-day Fast, demonstrating to us not…

BOCA RATON, FL – After the fruitful deliberations of the Holy Eparchial Synod, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, together with His Eminence Metropolitan Savas of Pittsburgh, and His Grace Bishop Athenagoras of Nazianzos celebrated the Divine Liturgy for Cheesefare Sunday at St. Mark Greek Orthodox Church in Boca Raton, FL on Sunday, March 17,…

+ BARTHOLOMEW BY GOD’S MERCY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE-NEW ROME AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH TO THE PLENITUDE OF THE CHURCH, MAY THE GRACE AND PEACE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, TOGETHER WITH OUR PRAYER, BLESSING AND FORGIVENESS BE WITH ALL Most honorable brother Hierarchs and blessed children in the Lord, The grace of our God…

The Holy Antiochian Synod, presided by His Beatitude Patriarch JOHN X (Yazigi), held its eighteenth extraordinary session in Balamand from March 13 to March 14, 2024, in the presence of Their Eminences: Elias (Archdiocese of Beirut and dependencies); Elias (Archdiocese of Tyre, Sidon and dependencies); Saba (Archdiocese of New York and All North America); Silouan…

On Thursday, March 1/14, 2024, H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos visited the Holy Monastery of the Holy Cross, located in West Jerusalem, opposite the Jewish Knesset. During this visit, His Beatitude assigned the abbotship of the Monastery to the Reverend Archimandrite Christodoulos, ministering to the Patriarchate on secondment from the Holy Metropolis…

OSLO, Norway – Under the leadership and oversight of His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia, along with the diligent efforts of the parish priests of the Metropolitan Church of the Annunciation of the Theotokos in Oslo Very Rev. Archimandrite Fr. Alexandros Loukatos and Rev. Economos Fr. Maxime Lesage, and the members of…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew engaged in a telephone conversation with the President of Cyprus, Mr. Nikos Christodoulides, who was about to embarked on a visit to Mount Athos. During their discussion, President Christodoulides sought the blessing of the Ecumenical Patriarch before his pilgrimage visit to Mount Athos. vema.com.au

On Thursday morning, 14 March 2024, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, in the presence of the Hierarchs of the Throne and members of the Patriarchal Court, conducted a Trisagion service for the repose of the souls of the late Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria and Bishop Ierotheos of Efkarpia, Abbot of the Holy Patriarchal and Stavropegic…

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania sent condolences to the Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church following the death of Patriarch Neophyte. Full text: Bucharest, 14 March 2024 To the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church It is with deep sorrow that we learned about the passing away, after battling a long illness, of…