A court case where the Serbian Church’s Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Eminence Joanikije, and eight other Orthodox clerics are defendants, charged with violating pandemic-related public health restrictions in the country in late 2020, was again postponed on Friday. His Eminence was Bishop of Niksic at the time of the alleged violations, with…

A letter of congratulations was sent by the general secretary of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy, Greek Parliament Deputy Maximos Harakopoulos, and the assembly’s president, Russian Duma lawmaker Sergey Gavrilov, to newly elected European Parliament President Roberta Metsola. In the letter, the two lawmakers note, among others, that “we believe you also share our vision…

The Church today venerates the memory of the Martyrs Neophytos, Agnes, Patroclus, Maximus the Greek and Eugene of Trebizond. Today is also the feast day of Maximos the Confessor. On the occasion of the feast day of St. Maximus the Greek and the Synaxis of the Panaghia of Paramythia, the online platform Pemptousia has posted…

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The theological significance and the teachings of the Church Fathers regarding the great feast of the Theophany of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, also known as the Holy Epiphany, which was celebrated this week under the Julian calendar, was cited this week by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great…

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis this week decorated, post-mortem, Fr. Sorin Grecu, the parish priest of the Romanian Orthodox Church’s Apostle Paul and All Romanian Saints Cathedral in London, with the National Order of Merit, Knight’s class. The decoration was bestowed in recognition and appreciation of the late clergyman’s defense of religious freedom and the principles…

The former Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, Vladimir, reposed in the Lord this week at the age of 93. In a message of condolences, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, referred to the lengthy ministry of the reposed hierarch and the numerous missions he undertook on behalf of the Moscow…

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, on Tuesday met at the Patriarchal Vicariate in Cairo with His Eminence Archbishop Damianos of Sinai. During the meeting, the Patriarch of Alexandria briefed the hierarch in detail over the issue that has arisen with what the Patriarchate of Alexandria…

The Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Most Godly Beatitude Theophilos III, on Wednesday spoke by phone with Greek Deputy FM Andreas Katsaniotis, who holds the expatriate Greeks and ecclesiastical diplomacy portfolio. On his part, the Greek official assured the Patriarch of Jerusalem of Athens’ volition to continue to stand by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in the…