His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on Wednesday officiated a blessing service for the new rector’s office at the University of Bucharest. The inauguration was attended by academicians, state officials, members of the University’s board of trustees, and professors. The rector of the University of Bucharest, Prof. Mircea Dumitru, told the audience that ‘the building is the…
On Wednesday, Oct. 2nd, 2019, His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, together with representatives from the Council of Patriarchs and Heads of Churches, welcomed a United States Congressional delegation (CODEL) to the Patriarchate in order to discuss the role of the Churches in Jerusalem and some of the current challenges they face, including threats…
The churches of David Gareji complex will be opened for Georgian clergy from tomorrow, – Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia made this statement at the cabinet meeting today. He summed up his visit to Azerbaijan. Prime Minister said that during the meeting with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev the talks focused on David Gareji issue….
The architect of the Romanian Patriarchate Dimitrie Ionescu-Berechet was honoured at the opening of a photo exhibition at the Patriarchal Palace in Bucharest marking the architect’s 50th death anniversary. ‘An esteemed graduate of the Superior School of Architecture in Bucharest, devoted familyist and active participant on the front during the First World War, architect Dimitrie…
Serbian Orthodox bishops have voiced concern for the image of the Church after their leader, Patriarch Irinej, on Tuesday handed President Aleksandar Vucic a prestigious award for the “great deeds” he had done for Serbia and Kosovo. A group of 14 bishops said in a letter to the Patriarch sent the same evening that they…
October 9, 2019, is the feast day of the repose of Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian and of St Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. His Eminence Metropolitan Alexander of Astana and Kazakhstan celebrated Divine Liturgy at Ascension of the Lord Cathedral in Almaty. The First Hierarch of the Orthodox Church of…
On October 8, 2019, the feast day of St Sergius of Radonezh, “Abbot of the Russian Land,” was celebrated. With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the canonization of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Kazakhstan and the establishment of the Diocese…
The Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church published a clarification on invalidity of ordinations and non-canonicity of the OCU. On October 7, 2019, an explanatory memorandum by the Secretariat of the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church “On the invalidity of ordinations of the Ukrainian schismatics and non-canonicity…
On Tuesday, 8th October 2019, on the Feast of Venerable Sergius of Radonezh, Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and all Moldova participated in the Divine Liturgy conducted by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia, in the Dormition Cathedral of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad. Numerous arch-pastors, priests, deacons, and lay Christians prayed…