The Metropolitan of Sweden & All Scandinavia, His Eminence Cleopas, over the weekend concluded his sixth pastoral tour of Iceland, on the occasion of the feast day of St. Bartholomew the Apostle, the curator and patron saint of the Orthodox parish in Reykjavik. The latter was founded in April 2019, following the Patriarchal visit of Ecumenical Patriarch…

The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X, this week met at the Patriarchal Monastery of St. George Al-Humeyra with Orthodox clergymen of Diocese of Damascus and the rural Damascus region. The meetings, which will last until Thursday, were opened with a Vespers, officiated by Patriarch John. His Beatitude underlined the…

The Archbishopric of Ohrid this week provided clarifications over the volition and right of the Serbian Orthodox Church to extend the Tomos – or Patriarchal charter – of Autocephaly. In an announcement after a third archieratical Divine Liturgy celebrated on Sunday, in Belgrade, by the Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, and the Archbishop of…

A holy site of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem was once again targeted by extremists, with reports on Monday stating that a group of roughly 50 Israeli religious extremists broke through a gate and railing and forced their way into the chapel on the Hill of St. Zion. According to a statement issued by the Patriarchate,…

The Church today venerates the memory of Our Righteous Father Panagis Basias.

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow proceeded with the decision to dismiss Hilarion from his duties as president of the Department of External Church Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow and Metropolitan of Volokolamsk. In an announcement following the regular meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, it is stated that the Synod decided…

The Prophetic Ministry of Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew It is not coincidental for the Christian world—and vital for the protection of the environment—that the Pope and the Ecumenical Patriarch have issued joint statements on caring for God’s gift of creation. His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew published encyclicals and initiated conferences on ecological issues…

Early on Monday morning, May 24/ June 6, 2022, a group of approximately fifty Israeli radicals of unknown origin, broke into the gate and barriers and trespassed on the chapel of the Patriarchate on the hill of Zion. These radicals entered the chapel and defiled its interior and also threatened the guard at the premises…

On Sunday, May 23/ June 5, 2022, the Patriarchate celebrated the Feast of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council in Nice, under the order of Constantine the Great, where they refuted Arius and established the doctrine of the One Essence of the Son with the Father as read in the Creed. This feast…