The Church today commemorates the Beheading of the Holy and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist, John. John is the divine Baptist, the Prophet born of a Prophet, the seal of all the Prophets and beginning of the Apostles, the mediator between the Old and New Covenants, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, the…

Vatopedi publications has unveiled a new tome of homilies and addresses by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Mount Athos. The work comprises an Athonite testimony of man’s course towards the light of God.

With the blessing of the Archbishop of Cyprus, His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, the 27th exhibition Orthodoxia will be held between Oct. 16 and Oct. 18 in the island republic capital of Nicosia. Pemptousia television and the Orthodoxia News Agency are communication sponsors of the exhibition.

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, officiated at a Trisagion memorial service at the Patriarchal cathedral of St. George for the repose of the soul of Metropolitan of Diokleia Kallistos, following the Orthros service in the afternoon. Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, a hierarch of the Ecumenical Throne, reposed in the Lord on…

The service of the procession of the sacred icon of the Dormition of the Theotokos was held before dawn on Thursday at the Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the Holy Land, following a Holy Vigil that was officiated by Archimandrite Bartholomew. The icon is kept in the Metochion of Gethsemane. The procession headed from the Metochion…

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Hierarchs of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on Thursday announced a decision to recognize the Archdiocese of Ohrid as a “…autocephalous Sister Church,” while nevertheless also using the name “Macedonian Orthodox Church”. With the decision, the Russian Church said it further inscribed the name of the previously schematic Church’s Primate, His Beatitude…

The Church today venerates the memory of Adrian & Natalia the Martyrs, & their 33 Companion Martyrs in Nicomedea.

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