A pilot program has begun in Russia to digitalize archives and artifacts related to Russian Orthodox Churches destroyed during communist rule in the vast country up until 1990, along with an electronic registrar of the country’s cultural and ecclesiastical monuments.    

The online platform Pemptousia will host the first online Archontariki with the Metropolitan of Aetolia and Acarnania, His Eminence Kosmas, today, March 11, beginning at 19.30 Athens time. Archontariki in Greek means a monastery’s guest house. His Eminence will speak on the Great and Holy Lent, which begins on Monday, a period of fasting, prayer,…

For Father Leonidas, a priest of Coburg’s Greek Orthodox Parish Of The Presentation Of Our Lord, service begins outside the church. Within a decade, the boundaries of Fr Leonidas’ Parish have expanded so much that they can now accommodate anyone in need, be it spiritually or physically, regardless of their religion, race, nationality and social…

On Tuesday, 24 February /9 March 2021, His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos had a pastoral telecommunication through zoom with His Eminence Archbishop Christophoros of Kyriakoupolis and the Clergy of Jordan. The opening of the teleconference was done by His Beatitude with the following address: “Fight the good fight of faith, lay…

His Grace Bishop Vasilije of Srem and the Serbian Orthodox Seminary of Saint Arsenije in Sremski Karlovci were visited by Mr. Petar Petkovic, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija; and Mileta Radojevic, Ph.D., Adviser to the Minister of Education for religious teaching and education. on 9 March 2021. In a cordial conversation, Bishop…

On Sunday, March 7th, 2021, the folk ensemble Drina of Saint John the Baptist parish in Paterson, New Jersey celebrated their Feast Day – Slava of Saint George of Kratovo. The Hierarchical Divine Liturgy was officiated by His Grace Bishop Irinej of Eastern America. His Grace was joined in concelebration by the Very Rev. Protopresbyter…

At its session on February 25, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church decided to begin the canonization process of a dozen confessors and missionaries who suffered under Communism, to mark the 140th anniversary of autocephaly and the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Patriarchate in 2025. Yesterday, March 9, when Romania commemorates…

“For Orthodox Christians in our complex, difficult times, full of spiritual disappointments, temptations and limitations of all kinds, Lent is of great spiritual importance,” His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Poland begins his Lenten epistle. Lent is a time for increased prayer and the struggle for purification, which give us renewed strength to struggle with the…

+ Bartholomew “By God’s mercy Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome And Ecumenical Patriarch to the plenitude of the Church, May the grace and peace of our Lord and savior jesus christ, together with our prayer, blessing and forgiveness be with you all” Most honorable brothers and blessed children in the Lord, With the good-will and grace…