Yesterday’s meeting between members of a Church of Greece-affiliated committee of dialogue, with the Education Minister, Kostas Gavroglu, proved fruitless. According to reports that emerged after the meeting, this specific round of talks may have reached an impasse. Members of the committee have also previously stressed that certain issues, such as the payroll regime for…

With the blessing of His Grace Bishop Irinej, and in conjunction with Protodeacon Jovan Anicic, Director of Religious Education for the Eastern American Diocese, St. George Serbian Orthodox Church in North Canton, Ohio hosted a Liturgical Music Workshop February 8th-10th, 2019. Participants came from across northeast Ohio, including multiple parishes and jurisdictions, for Friday evening’s…

Despite the ongoing persecution and propaganda against the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church that has only increasing since December 15’s “unification council” and the granting of a tomos of autocephaly to schismatics by Constantinople on January 6, its dioceses are remaining faithful to it. A number of them have already openly expressed their support for the…

Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany, hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, appealed to the members of the German Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops with an open letter in which he expressed his diocese’s position concerning the situation in the Orthodox world caused by the decisions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople to…

In international news, according to the official website of the Russian Patriarchate in Moscow, Metropolitan Mitrofan of Gorlovka and Slavyansk was detained at an internal checkpoint in the Ukraine and conveyed to the Slavyansk municipal police station. The hierarch later stated that the incident is the result of efforts to pressure him into accepting the…

The Metropolitan of Glyfada, Pavlos, passed away in the early morning hours of Tuesday at an Athens-area hospital. A funeral service will be held on Thursday, Feb. 21, at noon at the St.Constantine and Helen Cathedral in Glyfada, a municipality in coastal southeast Athens.

Α meeting today between members of a committee of dialogue – established by the Church of Greece’s Holy Synod – and Greek Education Minister Kostas Gavroglu, was concluded in the early afternoon. Committee members later issued a statement related to the meeting, first stressing that representatives of both the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece, and…

Today, Feb. 19, is the feast day of St. Filothei, who was born in 1522 in Ottoman-occupied Athens. Both of Filothei’s parents were descended from noble Byzantine families, and Filothei was the couple’s only and dearly-beloved child. She was renowned for her extensive philanthropy for the Christian faithful, amid the harsh rule of the Ottoman…