he President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, offered his greetings for the celebration of Saint Sava Day in a letter of January 27, 2022, to His Grace the Right Reverend Irinej, Bishop of Eastern America of the Serbian Orthodox Church, as well as to clergy, lay leaders, and the faithful. “Аs Serbian…
Following the Requiem Office for the Dead in the Cathedral church of Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Sabac, His Holiness Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch served the funeral service for Bishop Lavrentije of Sabac of blessed repose. The Patriarch was concelebrated by Their Graces Bishops: Vasilije of Srem, Pahomije of Vranje, Fotije of Zvornik-Tuzla and…
A joyous event took place in Penal Colony No. 20 in the North Ossetian village of Zavodskoy earlier this month, as a dozen convicts were baptized into Christ in the holy Orthodox Church. The washing of regeneration was celebrated on January 21 by the local clerics Archpriest Sergei Biryuk and Fr. Alexei Ovchinnikov, reports the…
Metropolitan Arseni of Kuopio and Karelia installed on Sunday the new abbot at Finland’s Valaam Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Archim. Mikael Nummela has studied Economics and Theology and speaks, in addition to Finnish, 10 other languages. The new Abbott, Archim. Mikael Nummela, was elected by the monastery synaxis on January 4, after…
500 years after it was consecrated, a stone church near Suceava was turned into a monastery. Meeting on Wednesday, the Suceava Diocesan Council approved the establishment of the Sunday of All Saints Monastery in the village of Părhăuți in Suceava County. The community will be built around a church built and consecrated during the reign…
The celebration of the Discovery of the Miraculous Icon (30/1) On the eve of the celebration, the Holy Icon is taken in procession to the lower Church of the Discovery and placed near the location where it was buried for centuries. After that vespers are officiated, in a special service. A service is also held…
The seat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate visited on Saturday, January 29, 2022, the new in their position as Ambassadors of the United States and Greece in Ankara, Jeffry L. Flake and Christodoulos Lazaris. The ambassador Mr. Flake, accompanied by his wife Cheryl Flake, the US Consul General in the town of Daria Darnell, as well…
His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew On Saturday, January 29, received the Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to Australia, Mr. Korhan Karakoç, with whom they had the opportunity to discuss issues of mutual interest. The meeting was attended by His Eminence the Archbishop Makarios of Australia, who referred to the excellent cooperation he has…
His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew received in a meeting, on January 29, 2022, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, together with the newly ordained Bishops of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia,. His Grace Bishop Kyriakos of Sozopolis, His Grace Bishop Christodoulos of Magnesia, and His Grace Bishop Evmenios of Kerasountos, assistant Bishops to His Eminence,…