On the 23rd of October, 2019, the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All-Holiness Bartholomew II, proclaimed the entry into the Official Calendar of the Church of yet another Athonite saint: Elder Sophronios (Sacharov) from Essex. The announcement was made in the conference of the Holy Council of Mount Athos by His All-Holiness with a lot of emotion….

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  On Tuesday, before his departure from Mt. Athos, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, planted a cypress tree in the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi’s courtyard, in commemoration of the “Greek Patriarch’s” landmark 2019 visit, and as a testament to his love for the natural environment.

  The visit by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, to the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi this week was his first in 30 years, with the last time coming when His All Holiness was the Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Philadelphia and Chalcedon. On Monday, the Ecumenical Patriarch also toured the…

A historic four-day visit by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, to the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mt. Athos concludes today, Tuesday. The Ecumenical Patriarch has visited various Monasteries on Mt. Athos, located on the eastern-most and mountainous promontory of Halkidiki prefecture of northern Greece. The Mt. Athos tour by His…

  On 19 October 2019 the Orthodox Church honours the memory of the Holy Apostle Thomas who, according to the church tradition, preached the word of God in Asia and reached China. Metropolitan Anthony of Korsun and Western Europe, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Administration for Institutions Abroad, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church…

On 19th – 20th October 2019, the celebrations marking the 125th anniversary of the beginning of the ministry of St. Raphael of Brooklyn in North America and the centenary of Saint Nicholas Cathedral of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America took place in Brooklyn, New York. With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch…

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of Holy Trinity in Sremcica on the feast day of Saints Sergius and Bacchus the Martyrs, on 20 October 2019. (phоzo gallery).  He was concelebrated by dean of the church protopresbyter-staurophor Miroslav Stikic and other local priests. spc.rs

During the first-ever Monastic Assembly of the five dioceses within the Metropolis of Transylvania, the Archbishop of Alba Iulia highlighted the dangers of using social platforms for the spiritual life of monastics. “The contemporary monk doesn’t need a virtual identity in order to communicate with the world, even in their wish for mission,” the archbishop…