After several years of struggle and tense negotiations, the Serbian Orthodox Church and the state of Montenegro have finally signed a Fundamental Agreement on the Church’s rights and responsibilities in relation to the state. The Agreement was signed by His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije and Montenegrin Prime Minister Dritan Abazović today at 10 AM in the…

Over 90 youth and youth workers from 22 countries participated in “Suprasl 2022: A World Gathering of Orthodox Youth,” an international gathering held at the Orthodox Academy at the Annunciation Monastery here, 18-24 July 2022. Attendees explored the theme “Go and Bear Fruit,” based on John 15:16, learning how as young people, they have a…

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Vatopedi publications of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi has unveiled a new volume containing sermons and homilies by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Monastery. The volume comprises an Athonite testimony of man’s path towards the light of God.

Former Mount Athos civil governor Stavros Psyharis passed away on Tuesday at the age of 77. Psyharis was a well-known journalist, editor and publisher in Greece for decades. He was honored by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in June 2010 for his contributions to the semi-autonomous monastic community in northern Greece during his tenure as…

The Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Aghios Vlasios, and locum tenens of the Metropolis of Aetolia & Akarnania, His Eminence Ierotheos, on Tuesday afternoon officiated at the Orthros and the Service of Paraklesis to the All-Holy Theotokos at the Church of St. Spyridonas, in the western coastal city of Messolonghi.

The Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Theophilos III, on Tuesday celebrated the feast day of the Prophet Elijah from Thesbis, as based on the Julian calendar. In honor of the Prophet at a Holy Monastery dedicated to His memory, located between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, a great Vespers was held on Monday afternoon, and the Divine…

A con-celebratory synodal Divine Liturgy was held on Tuesday at the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, in the Albanian capital of Tirana, on the occasion of the 30-year anniversary of the enthronement of the Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios. In citing what he called the extraordinary magnitude and importance…

The Church today venerates the memory of Salome the Holy Myrrh-bearer. Today is also the feast day of Isaacius, Dalmatus, & Faustus, ascetics of the Dalmation Monastery.