On June 13, 2021, the Seventh Sunday following Pascha, when we celebrate the memory of the 318 Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council (325AD), His Grace Bishop Irinej of Eastern America celebrated the Hierarchal Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in the parish church of the Holy Ascension of Christ in Youngwood, Pennsylvania. Concelebrating…

On Sunday, June 20 (7), 2021, the Feast of the Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles, which our people call “Holy Trinity Day” and “Duhovi,” was gloriously celebrated at the See of our Diocese, the Monastery of the Protection of the Theotokos in Third Lake, Illinois. The Monastery Church was beautifully decorated with…

His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Porfirije received Russian astronauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Anastasia Stepanova in the Patriarchal Palace in Belgrade on 24 June 2021. The Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church in a cordial atmosphere led an extremely interesting conversation with Russian astronauts about many aspects of man’s departure and stay in space. The Patriarch Porfirije…

  Thanks to the faith and piety of one Bessarabian woman, the new Church of St. Nicholas and St. Stephen the Great is being built in the Moldovan town of Edineț. In her will, Maria Andronache bequeathed her money to the Romanian Orthodox Church to build a church that will especially serve for the unity…

The small town of Winfield, Pennyslvania, will soon be home to a new Orthodox church named for one of the greatest saints to have served in America. “Today St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco Russian Orthodox Mission Church installed the standing Cross at the entry to our building site to mark the start of…

In June 24, 2021, the Advisory Committee on the Charter met for the first time under the leadership of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and Mr. Michael Psaros, Chairman. The Advisory Committee was formed by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros following an October 2020 directive of the Ecumenical Patriarchate that placed the charter of the…

On Thursday, June 24, 2021 His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America visited Saint Basil Academy in Garrison, NY where he offered a congratulatory address to the Academy’s 2021 graduating class. goarch.org

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On the occasion of today’s feast day of the Nativity of Forerunner John the Baptist, a Vespers service was held on Wednesday at the venerable and historic Monastery of John the Baptist in Kynouria district of the eastern Peloponnese.