On Monday, 2/15 February 2021, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the Meeting of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple. On this feast, the Church commemorates the event that our Lord Jesus Christ, Who was born in the flesh from the Virgin, at the completion of the forty days after His Nativity, according…

The Holy Martyr Triphon, protector of winemakers and winegrowers, was celebrated on February 14, 2020 with a solemn liturgical gathering in the monastery of Bukovo. In the church of St. Nicholas of Myra, His Grace Bishop Ilarion of Timok officiated the Holy Liturgy with the concelebration of Archimandrite Cosmas, Archangel Simeon and hierodeacon Marko, while…

People with hearing and speech impairments in Bucharest celebrated last Friday their spiritual protector, Saint Meletios, the archbishop of Antioch, who explained by signs the Holy Trinity’s mystery when his mouth was covered so that he would not speak. The festive Divine Liturgy was celebrated by the priest of the deaf community in Bucharest, Fr….

Archbishop Ioachim of Roman and Bacau expressed his hope that the canonization proposal of Bishop Melchisedec Ştefănescu, a former bishop of Roman, will be soon approved by the Holy Synod. His Eminence Archbishop Ioachim officiated a memorial service at the Archdiocesan Cathedral of Saint Parascheva in Roman on Bishop Melchisedec’s 198th birthday anniversary on Monday,…

The Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Italy provides an interactive map with contact details for each parish in its jurisdiction. The map is useful for Romanians, but not only, who need information about the Romanian communities or need support to navigate a region. Parishes operate in places rented or shared with Catholic parishes on the Peninsula….

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić awarded a number of outstanding political and cultural figures of the country and foreign citizens in honor of the Day of Serbian Statehood yesterday. Among those awarded was His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who received the Order of the Republic of Serbia on a chain “for services…

The Synod also condemned the divisive work of the “Association of Religions Experts” that claimed the hierarchs wanted to overthrow Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II. The Georgian Orthodox Church appreciates the work of scientists and doctors to protect people’s health, but it will not take responsibility for promoting vaccination against the coronavirus, the Holy Synod resolved at…

Paul Kingsnorth, one of the most important English writers alive, was baptized as a Christian Orthodox at the Romanian Monastery in Shannonbridge, Ireland. “As a Western newcomer to Orthodoxy, I have a lifetime’s learning journey ahead of me, but I already feel like I have arrived home,” said the writer. “I first discovered Christian Orthodoxy…

St Basil’s Homes for the Aged in Victoria, the site of Australia’s deadliest coronavirus outbreaks so far, is not in danger of closure. Fr Evmenios Vasilopoulos, the Archdiocesan Vicar of the Northote district, who is the current Chairman of the nursing home following the resignation of Konstantinos Kontis in September 2020 told Neos Kosmos that…