Archimandrite Fr. Sarantis Sarantos, the parish Arch-priest of the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Theotokos, in the northern Athens district of Maroussi, reposed in the Lord on Sunday evening. The reposed cleric ministered to the faithful at the specific cathedral for 51 years, and was the spiritual father of numerous generations of Marousi residents….

The chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for the Church’s relations with Society and Mass Media, Vladimir Legoida, this month emphasized that the Russian Church does not oppose new technologies — when asked to address concerns by some faithful regarding accelerated digital reforms underway in the vast country. Legoida stressed that the Russian Orthodox Church…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Beatitude Porfirije, on Monday received the visiting foreign minister of Greece, Nikos Dendias. The latter is on an official visit to Belgrade, where he will hold talks with his Serbian counterpart, Nikola Selakovic, before participating in a trilateral meeting with the foreign ministers of Serbia, Greece and Cyprus.

Members of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece will remotely convene on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, with Hierarchs to discuss ongoing pandemic-related restrictions amid Holy and Great Lent and ahead of Holy Pascha, Easter Sunday, which falls on May 2. The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, is also…

A draft bill amendment was ratified in Greece’s Parliament on Monday to extend a one-off economic subsidy to Church-affiliated institutions active in charitable works and social support, as the latter have been particularly affected during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Specific conditions are stipulated for receiving the financial aid, with beneficiaries being the Autocephalous Orthodox Church…

The Church today venerates the memory of the Monk-Martyrs Claudius, Diodore, Victor, Victorinus – and those with them. Today is also the feast day of the New Martyr Georgios of Ephesus, who while intoxicated renounced his faith and declared himself a Muslim – only to subsequently realize his folly and temporarily flee to the island…

According to the analysis conducted by the International Republican Institute’s (IRI) Center for Insights in Survey Research, Patriarch Ilia II, former Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia, and Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze lead among Georgian politicians and public figures. In particular, 89 per cent of Georgians named Patriarch Ilia II among the most favourable public figures, 65…

  Bishop Dr. Irinej of Backa: Епископ бачки др Иринеј: „Christ saves the world and man with His Cross and His Resurrection. By participating in His Cross, by which He saves us, we also participate in His Resurrection – it becomes our Resurrection.” On Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross, 4 April 2021, His…

His Grace Bishop Sergije of Bihac-Petrovac officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God in Mrkonjic Grad, on 4 April 2021, on the Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross. The Bishop was concelebrated by protopresbyter-staurophor Savo Jankovic, Diocesan dean of Jajci-Mrkonjic Grad, presbyter Aleksandar…