The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, addressed a homily this week during a Divine Liturgy for the Feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, conducted at the nearly completed St. Nicholas National Shrine at “Ground Zero”, in Manhattan. In his address, the Archbishop noted that “…the new St. Nicholas will have a national and even…

Today, Dec. 7, marks the 47th anniversary of the return of Cyprus president, Archbishop Makarios, to the island republic after a Turkish invasion and occupation of one-third of the east Mediterranean isle months earlier, in July and August 1974. The Orthodoxia news agency has posted a feature on the emblematic Cypriot ecclesiastical and political leader,…

The Metropolitan and Abbot of the Athens-area Holy Monastery of Asomaton Petraki, His Eminence Iakovos, this week spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency about the role of the historic monastery in the Greek War of Independence struggle. The entire interview, in Greek, has been posted on the website.  

The Church today venerates the memory of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan.

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His Holiness Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch officiated the Holy Hierarchical Liturgy with the concelebration of Their Graces Bishops Stefan of Remesiana and Jerotej of Toplica in the Cathedral church of Saint Sava in the Vracar, on 5 December 2021. After the Holy Liturgy, Patriarch Porfirije greeted the members of the Association of Young Scouts and…

On December 6, 2021, His Holiness Porfirije, Patriarch of Serbia, received in audience the vice-chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archpriest Nikolay Balashov, and a delegation of the Foundation for Support of Christin Culture and Heritage led by Mr. E. I. Skopenko, executive director of the foundation. Archpriest Nikolay…

The importance of traditional spiritual and moral values, including the centrality of traditional marriage and families, is heavily emphasized in the proposed updated version of the Fundamentals of Russian State Cultural Policy. The proposed changes to the legal document that has defined the main directions of state cultural policy since it came into force in…

The Orthodox faithful in Cebu, the Philippines, were blessed with the celebration of the Divine Liturgy for the feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple on December 4. Because of the pandemic, this was the first time the local faithful were able to commune of the Precious Body and Blood of Christ…