Many clergy and faithful from the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco traveled to the UK in order to attend the Enthronement Ceremony of His Eminence Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain Nikitas and join in prayer on this special day.  

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America celebrated the Feast of Saint Paraskevi, the Great-Martyr with the Divine Liturgy on July 26, 2019, at the Greek Orthodox Church of the same name, located in the Greenlawn hamlet of Long Island. “You and I are equally sons and daughters of our Father in heaven.  We are equally…

The procession participants are heading for the Holy Dormition Pochaev Lavra to participate in celebrations of the Pochaev Icon of the Mother of God. On July 25, 2019, at 13:00, participants in the traditional international cross procession, which is going from Poland through the Republic of Belarus to Pochaev, crossed the Ukrainian border, reports Svetlana…

Not a single girl has been born in a district of Uttarakhand in northern India since April, while 216 newborn boys have been recorded. Authorities suspect that sex-selective terminations have been carried out in as many as 132 villages in the region. Abortion by gender was banned in India 25 years ago, following a growing…

The Enthronement Ceremony of the new Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, Nikitas, took place on Saturday, July 27, 2019 at the Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom, Bayswater, London. Metropolitan Emmanuel of France represented His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. Many hierarchs, clergymen, dignitaries, and diplomats, together with faithful and many youth and young adults attended…

The Holy Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada would like to inform with much happiness and glory to God, the following new ordinations to the clergy: George Kodogeorgakis 28 years old, a graduate of our Theological Academy, was made a monk and took the name Nikodimos. On April 30, 2019, he was ordained a Deacon at the…

Recently Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople has stated that the Church of Greece is the first Local Orthodox Church in the world to recognize “The Orthodox Church of Ukraine” (OCUP) after the Church of Constantinople, which has created it. Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations who recently has…

On July 25, following a long illness, the ROCOR Eastern American Diocese reported that their cleric, Archpriest John Moses of the Holy Myrrhbearers Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia, has reposed in the Lord. Earlier, it was reported that Father Moses was suffering from kidney disease. Father Moses was known for his blog, “The Ramblings of a Redneck Priest”,…

The Bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church was met at the airport by Bishop Tikhon of Gostomel. On July 26, 2019, the hierarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Bishop Arseny of Niš (Glavcic), arrived at the festivities on the occasion of the 1031th anniversary of Baptism of Rus in Kiev, reported the Department for External…