The Patriarchate of Jerusalem on Thursday celebrated the first week of Great Lent with the transference to the commemoration of St. Gerasimus of the Jordan at the Holy Monastery dedicated to the saint, in the desert of the river Jordan, a short distance from the river’s estuaries towards the Dead Sea. This Monastery was founded…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Friday received the visiting Mayor of Athens, Kostas Bakoyannis, as well as the Mayor of the Bosporus metropolis, Ekrem İmamoğlu, who has shot to the political limelight in Turkey as a rival to authoritarian Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The two mayors arrived at…

The Orthodoxia News Agency and the online platform Pemptousia on Friday will live-stream the Holy Services of the First Friday of Lent – the liturgy of the Salutations to the Theotokos, the Virgin Mary – from the Catholicos (main cathedral) of the Holy Monastery of Asteriou, beginning at 5 p.m. (15.00 GMT). Live-streaming services during…

The First Salutation to the Theotokos, the All-Holy Virgin Mary, will be celebrated today at all Orthodox places of worship around the world, the First Friday of Great Lent for 2021.  

His Grace Bishop Longin of New Gracanica-Midwestern America in canonical visit to parishes in Minnesota Serbs emigrated to Minnesota at the turn of the 20th century and settled in three highly industrialized areas.: The Iron Range, Duluth and the St. Paul-Minneapolis metropolitan area (The Тwin Cities). In all these regions, Serbs built their churches. In…

With the blessing of His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Porfirije and with the approval of the Ministry of Defense, representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church visited the Temporary COVID Hospital in Stark Arena in Belgrade on March 17, 2021 (photo gallery). Protopresbyter-staurophor Vladimir Vukasinovic, head of the Ruzica church; priest Zoran Kerezovic, priest at the Clinical…

On Sunday, March 14, 2021, His Grace Bishop Irinej of Eastern America, at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, in New York, with the concelebration of Protopresbyter Djokan Majstorovic, Presbyter Milan Dragovic and Protodeacon Milos Zdralic, served a memorial service at the grave of Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin. The Consul of Serbia in New York, Mrs. Olgica…

IN THE NAME OF THE ALL HOLY AND LIFEGIVING TRINITY! We, the clergy, monastics, and representatives of the people of God, ordained and elected members to the Annual Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Eastern America have gathered together for the Virtual Annual Assembly of the God-protected Diocese of Eastern America of the Serbian…

On Thursday of the 1st Week of Lent, 5/18 March 2021, the Patriarchate celebrated by transference the commemoration of our Holy Father Gerasimus of the Jordan at his Holy Monastery, in the desert of the river Jordan, at a short distance from the river’s estuaries towards the Dead Sea, on the West Bank. This Monastery…