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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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An annual litany of the Holy Icon and Relics of St. Cosmas of Aetolia was held on Wednesday at the 18th century saint’s native village of Thermos, in the southwest prefecture of Aetoloakarnania, and on the occasion of Patrocosmas’ feast day. St. Cosmas is the patron saint and protector of the Holy Metropolis of Aetolia…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, continued a pastoral visit to his native island of Imvros, in the northeast Aegean, this week. His All Holiness on Wednesday officiated at the Divine Liturgy at the celebrating church in the village of Aghii Theodori, on the occasion of the Apodosis of the Dormition…

The Church today commemorates the Return of the Body of Bartholomew, the Glorious Apostle. Today is also the feast day of Titus, the Apostle of the 70. On the occasion of today’s feast day of St. Titus, a great archieratical Vesper was held on Wednesday at a dedicated cathedral on Crete, where the saint’s honorable…

Greece’s association of archaeologists, in a letter directed to the Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, warned that the future of the iconic Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople is gloomy, following the reconversion of the greatest of all basilicas of eastern Christendom into a mosque in July 2020.

2022 marks the 400-year anniversary of the repose of St. Dionysios of Zakynthos. The clergy and faithful on the Ionian Island this week commemorated the translation of the Holy Relics of the 16th century saint in 1717, with concelebratory services and events officiated by the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Beatitude…