A priest who previously escaped from the Russian-led forces’ captivity in Donbas has joined the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Read also World’s southernmost religious building may join Orthodox Church of Ukraine The priest was captured by the invaders at the beginning of the war, which started in April 2014. After torture and escape, he moved…

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent greetings to the Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church on the commemoration day of St Sava of Serbia. The text of the letter is given below. Your Holiness, Please accept my heartfelt greetings with the commemoration day of St Sava…

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia greeted His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia with the commemoration day of St Sava of Serbia. His Holiness Irinej Archbishop of Peć Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci Patriarch of Serbia Your Holiness, Beloved Brother and Concelebrant at God’s Altar: I cordially greet you with the commemoration…

A group of clergymen and laymen headed by Bishop Viktor of Artsiz from the Odessa and Izmail diocese made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land to venerate the ancient holy sites of Palestine and Jerusalem. The pilgrimage was blessed by their ruling hierarch Metropolitan Agafangel. On 22 January 2019, the believers from the Ukrainian Orthodox…

Ukraine’s oldest schemanun, the 107-year-old Mother Joanna of the Convent of the Athonite Icon of the Mother of God in Chopovichi in the Zhytomyr Province, reposed in the Lord yesterday, January 24. “Today, Schemanun Joanna departed into eternity at the age of 107. She survived two world wars and was exiled for 18 years for…

Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus believes the Tomos for OCU to cause a big schism to Orthodoxy, so he calls on hierarchy of Orthodox Greek Church not to recognize OCU. In his official statement, issued on January 21, 2019, the authoritative hierarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus, said that the recognition of…

With the mercy of God and the practical love of Greek and Congolese Orthodox brothers and sisters, yet another container 12 metres long arrived from Greece at the See of the Holy Metropolis of Brazzaville and Gabon in Pointe-Noire on January 17th, 2019. The container sent under the initiative of the Holy Metropolis through the…

Addressing pilgrims from Greece and Cyprus shortly after today’s Divine Liturgy at the Phanar, His All-Holiness spoke on the occasion of today’s 70th anniversary of the enthronement of Athenagoras as Ecumenical Patriarch, about the work and the multi-dimensional ministry of the Mother Church. The timeless ministry of the Mother Church of Constantinople was discussed by…

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Memorial Cathedral of Saint Sava in the Vracar district, on 27 January 2019, on Saint Sava’s Day. The Patriarch was concelebrated by head of the Saint Sava Cathedral, His Grace Bishop Stefan of Remesiana, Vicar of the Patriarch; protopresbyter-staurophors Predrag Puzovic, Vladimir Vukasinovic,…