On Sunday, September 5, the leavetaking of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos and the feast of the great pre-schism Western father St. Irenaeus of Lyons, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the crypt where St. Irenaeus and innumerable martyrs of Lyons are buried. The feast was celebrated by His Grace Bishop Irenei of…

A great spiritual event occurred in the Philippines this week, as a group of 12 men and women were baptized into Christ in His holy Orthodox Church in the waters of the West Philippine Sea. The dozen newly-illumined are all former members of a Monophysite church, reports the Diocese of the Philippines and Vietnam. The head…

The Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of Germany and 47 donors from the Romanian diaspora visited on Friday Romania’s most impoverished town, Negrești, in Vaslui county, where they offer monthly scholarships for 450 children. The financial support is offered through the eparchial Programme “Scholarships for the Poor Children of Moldavia”. “I was glad to meet many of…

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church sent a video message for the Clergy Conference of the two dioceses of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolis of the Americas, who met via videoconference on August 27-28, 2021. Solemn blessing for the Conference of Romanian Clergy in America: full text The online clergy conference, organized by…

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An exact replica of the holy and miraculous icon of the Panagia Gorgoipikoos, or Quick to Hear, was conveyed on Monday to the Monastery of Panagia Theoskepastos of Sohos, in northern Greece, a glebe of the Holy Monastery of Docheiariou of Mount Athos. The holy icon was conveyed by the Abbot of the Monastery, Elder…

The Moscow Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, this week expressed the Church’s heightened concern over the situation in war-ravaged Afghanistan, in the wake of the assumption of power by the extremist Taliban. The specific Islamist movement in banned in Russia. The head of the Russian Patriarchate’s Synodal Department for External Church Relations added…

Two days after violent protests by extremists in Montenegro attempting, unsuccessfully, to prevent the enthronement of new Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Eminence Joanikije, the Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, emphasized in a media interview that “…that even people who accuse the Serbian Orthodox Church of engaging in politics know that this…

Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Monday attended a commemorative event at the historic Monastery of St. Luke in the south-central prefecture of Viotia, organized by the Metropolis of Thebes and Levadia and dedicated to independence struggle national martyr Bishop Isiah of Salona.