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An impressive 36-meter metallic Cross has been erected in the Tushana site, in the central-western Bulgarian municipality of Elin Pelin, following the blessing of the Patriarch of Bulgaria, His Holiness Neofyt. A blessing ceremony at the site was officiated by the Bishop of Belogradchik, His Grace Polycarp.  

The enthronement of the new Serbian Orthodox Church’s Bishop of Sabac, His Grace Ierotheos, was held on Sunday at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, in the presence of the Patriarch of the Serbian Patriarchate, His Holiness Porfirije, and other hierarchs of the Serbian Church.

Hagiography at the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at Ground Zero in Manhattan is expected to be concluded by the end of October, according to Hieromonk Lucas, among the hagiographers at the landmark place of worship. Fr. Lucas, from the Holy Monastery of Xenophontos on Mt. Athos, spoke with ethnic Greek media…

The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X, has accepted the resignation of the Antioch Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of New York and Archbishop of all North America, His Eminence Joseph. The pending resignation and retirement of Metropolitan Joseph had been previously reported by the Orthodoxia News Agency. In an announcement issued by…

Memorial and te deum services were held in several Metropolises and parishes around Greece on Sunday, on the occasion of last week’s annual commemoration of the Day of National Remembrance of the Genocide of the Greeks of Asia Minor by the Turkish State. The annual commemoration was established in a unanimous vote in Greece’s Parliament…

The Church today venerates the memory of Trophimos, Sabbatios & Dorymedon, the Martyrs.

On Sunday, September 5th/18th 2022, the Patriarchate celebrated the Feast of the Nativity of our Lady and Immaculate Mary in the Holy Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in Beit Jala. During this feast, the Church remembers that the Theotokos is a gift of God to her childless parents, Joachim and Anna,…

The decision to award the photographic exhibition of the Holy Theological School of Halki at the Thessaloniki International Fair, which was organised at the stand of the city’s Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with “Byzantine Thessaloniki”, as the best participation in this year’s 86th Thessaloniki International Fair, was received by the Administration of the Exhibition….