The Romanian Orthodox Church this week announced that the Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, will bestow the Patriarchal Cross, the Church’s highest distinction, to top tennis player Simona Halep — days after she won this year’s Wimbledon tournament in the final against Serena Williams. Halep begins each of her matches by making…

  The Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, this week announced that the Russian Orthodox Church believes that personal contacts between the presidents of Russia and the Ukraine will bring both sides closer, especially in terms of major differences in national issues that have arisen over the past decade. Hilarion, who heads the Russian Church’s…

  The new Archbishop of Australia, Makarios, on Tuesday received members of a schismatic parish, and specifically from the non-canonical St. Spyridonas parish in Clayton. The meeting took place at the offices of the Archdiocese in Sydney. According to reports, the Archbishop accepted a request for a resumption of dialogue to restore the parish’s canonical…

His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II, the beloved spiritual father of all Georgia, celebrated his 59th mass infant Baptism at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi yesterday on the feast of St. Cosmas and Damian of Rome. The Georgian primate became the Godfather to another 564 children this time, reports 1tv.ge. The Baptisms were celebrated in the second…

EXCLUSIVE Interview with His Excellency Archbishop Job of Telmessos Was the Pope’s gesture to transfer a portion of St. Peter’s relics to the Ecumenical Patriarchate known beforehand, or a surprise to you and the delegation you led to the Vatican? It was a great surprise to all of us, even for the Vatican and ……

New Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday morning received Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, at the Maximos Mansion government house, a courtesy visit by the latter that nevertheless marked as a distinct “about-face” from the previous Greek government’s intent to unilaterally change Church-state relations. Mitsotakis warmly received the influential Primate…

On the feast day of the holy and unmercenary physicians Cosmas and Damian, on the second day of the Church Assembly-Sabor, a most majestic Holy Hierarchical Liturgy was served in honor of these Saints, in honor of our St. Mardarije of Libertyville and all America and in prayerful commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the…

The 22nd Quinquennial Church Assembly (Sabor) of the Serbian Orthodox Dioceses in the United States of America began on Saturday, July 14, 2019 at the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of the Protection of the Mother of God “New Gracanica,” in Third Lake, Illinois. The Episcopal Council, the Central Church Council, the National Ministries “Standing Committees” and…

The installation of the new steel roof structure has been achieved, over the full length of the building’s nave and, with that, this beautiful historic landmark has been stabilized at last, for the first time since the terrible fire that threatened to destroy it completely. What remains is to add a layer of wood over…