The memory of St. Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessaloniki, was venerated on Monday – the feast day of the saint – at the Holy Metropolis of Kastoria, with the resident Metropolitan, His Eminence Kallinikos, officiating at a Divine Liturgy at the Chapel of the Archangels. Congregants included pupils of a nearby public primary school, with…

The Patriarchate of Romania’s ecclesiastical art and preservation department, in cooperation with the public secretariat for worship, is organizing a 9th international conference on the subject of “Hesychastic Light in Ecclesiastical Art: The Glory of Christ on Mt. Tabor, and the Halo of the Saints.” The conference commenced on Monday at the Patriarch Theoktistos Hall…

In the Holy Land, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Theophilos III, on Sunday paid a pastoral visit to the Arabic-speaking Greek Orthodox Community in the city of Beit Jala. His Beatitude first visited the building belonging to the Hegoumen, or Abbot of the Monastery, which in the past was used as a primary school,…

The locum tenens of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus, Metropolitan Georgios of Paphos, this week announced that the election of a new Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and Cyprus will be held on Sunday, Dec. 18. Based on the new charter of the Church of Cyprus, which was approved and enacted in 2010, three eligible hierarchs…

The Church today venerates the memory of Gurias, Samonas, and Avivos, Martyrs and Confessors of Edessa, in ancient Syria. Today also marks the beginning of the Nativity Fast, one of four main fast periods throughout the ecclesiastical year. The fast concludes on Dec. 24.

At noon on Sunday, October 31/ November 13, 2022, His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos made a pastoral visit to our Arabic-speaking Greek Orthodox Community in the city of Beit Jala. First of all, His Beatitude visited the building belonging to the Hegoumen of the Monastery, which in the past was used…

ORTHODOX AUTOCEPHALOUS CHURCH OF ALBANIA Secretariat of the Holy Synod   Regarding the Master’s Paper Of the Archimandrite Fr. Grigorios Frangakis On “The Ecclesiastical Issue in the Ukraine” The Master’s paper of the Archimandrite Fr. Gregorios Frangakis – Chief Secretary of the Great Church of Christ, with the topic “About the Healing of the Ecclesiastical…

15 ноября 2022 года в Патриаршей и Синодальной резиденции в Даниловом монастыре в Москве состоялась рабочая встреча Святейшего Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла с митрополитом Минским и Заславским Вениамином, Патриаршим экзархом всея Беларуси. Во встрече также принял участие архиепископ Витебский и Оршанский Димитрий, настоятель храма великомученицы Ирины (Троицы Живоначальной) в Покровском г. Москвы (представительство…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Sunday, 13 November 2022, on the occasion of the feast day of Saint John Chyrsostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, presided at during the Divine Liturgy from the Parathrone (side-throne), at the Venerable Patriarchal Church of Saint George, Phanar. According to tradition, on the Patriarchal Throne was placed the Holy Icon…