Metropolitan Athenagoras of Bizye, Hierarch of the Ecumenical Throne, passed away at the age of 84. Georgios Anastasiades, born in Chicago in 1941, graduated from the Theological School of the University of Athens in 1965 and received a postgraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1973. He was ordained a Deacon in 1965 and…

“I go with Paschal thoughts to the Lower Land of Moldavia,” declared the Very Rev. Archimandrite Teofil Anăstăsoaie, newly elected Assistant Bishop of the Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău, following his election by the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church on Wednesday. The newly elected bishop will bear the title His Grace Assistant Bishop…

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church has elected the Very Rev. Archimandrite Teofil Anăstăsoaie, the Romanian Patriarchate’s Representative to the Holy Places, as Assistant Bishop of the Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău. Archimandrite Teofil has served as the Romanian Patriarchate’s liaison to the Patriarchate of Jerusalem and as Superior of the Romanian Settlements…

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church held its working session in the “Patriarch Teoctist” Aula Magna of the Patriarchal Palace on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 1–2, 2025, under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel. The Holy Synod adopted several decisions related to pastoral and missionary activity, including: The canonization of 16 women…

The Romanian Patriarchate will canonize 16 female saints in 2026, as part of the Commemorative Year of Holy Women in the Church Calendar, according to announcements made by Patriarch Daniel on Monday evening during the working session of the Metropolitan Synod of the Metropolis of Muntenia and Dobruja. A similar number of saints—16—were proclaimed during…

On Saturday, 15th/28th June 2025, our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Theophilos III, gave a highly important and interesting interview to the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), regarding the pilgrimage, pastoral, reconciliatory, and peace-making mission of the Patriarchate from its inception and particularly since the days of the “Achtiname” treaty, agreed between the Holy…

On Monday, 17th/30th June 2025, His Beatitude was visited by the Head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem (MISSIA), Archimandrite Vassianos, accompanied by Archimandrite Nikon and the nun Seraphima. He invited His Beatitude to attend the upcoming Feast of the Nativity of the Forerunner at the Russian Monastery of the Nativity of the Forerunner…

On Sunday, the 16th/29th of June 2025, upon the completion of one week since the terrorist bombing attack in the Holy Church of the Prophet Elias in Damascus, a Memorial service was held in the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem for the repose of the souls of our Orthodox brethren who were unjustly slain…

On 25-27 June 2025, His Eminence Metropolitan Job of Pisidia visited the Holy Metropolis of Demetrias and Almyros, at the invitation of Volos Academy, to participate in their Summer School. Metropolitan Job delivered lectures on the relations between the Orthodox Church and other Christian Churches, particularly on the contribution of the Orthodox Church to the…