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On Friday afternoon, October 8, His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III welcomed the Minister of Justice of Georgia Mr. Rati Bregadze, who was accompanied by a delegation from the Georgian Embassy in Tel Aviv and the Georgian Consulate in Jerusalem.   Jerusalem-Patriarchate

An exact replica of the Holy Icon of the Panaghia Portaitissa will be conveyed on Monday to the Cathedral of St. Demetrios in Thessaloniki, with a doxology service to follow, officiated by the Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, His Eminence Anthimos. A vesper and an invocation to the Panaghia, the Virgin Mary, will follow.

The Metropolitan-Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Eminence Joanikije, this week expressed his deep disappointment over the recent insolent behavior by Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic against the Orthodox Church, referring to treatment that “…communist authorities exhibited towards the Serbian Orthodox Church after WWII, especially in Montenegro.” His Eminence added that “…the Metropolitanate, its bishops,…

The Patriarchal vicar in Bethlehem, blessed Archbishop Theophylaktos reposed in the Lord in the early morning hours of Friday. His Eminence had been hospitalized for the past two months following surgeries. A funeral service will take place at the Cathedral of Sts. Constantine and Helen on Saturday, followed by interment at the cemetery of the…

Sessions of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece continued for a fifth straight day on Friday, with hierarchs of the Church of Greece convening at the Inter-Orthodox Center at the Holy Monastery of Penteli, due north of Athens, and under the chairmanship of the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His…

Bishop Gregorios Khoury elected as Patriarchal Vicar and Secretary of the Holy Synod  Archimandrite Arsanios Dahdal and Archimandrite Mousa al-Khasi, elected as Assistant Bishops to the Patriarch. The Holy Antiochian Synod, held in Balamand this evening, elected Archbishop Niphon Saykali of Shehba, a Metropolitan and a member of the Holy Synod. The Holy Synod also…

His Holiness Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch, presented the Order of St. Sava to Mr. Milorad Vucelic, editor-in-chief of Vecernje Novosti, in the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade, on October 7, 2021. The solemn award ceremony was attended by Their Graces Bishops Irinej of Backa, Fotije of Zvornik and Tuzla and David of Krusevac, family, friends and…

The church where many Pereslavl princes, including the great St. Alexander Nevsky, were baptized could soon be included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Holy Transfiguration Cathedral in the Pereslavl Kremlin, as well as the Rostov Kremlin Ensemble were included in the preliminary UNESCO Heritage list, Yaroslavl Province Governor Dmitry Mironov announced this…