On Tuesday, November 24, 2020, at the invitation of His Eminence Metropolitan Nicolae of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas, the Orthodox hierarchs of Chicago served a memorial service for Patriarch Irinej of Serbia at Ss. Constantine and Helen Romanian Orthodox Cathedral of Chicago. In attendance were: His Eminence Metropolitan Nathaniel and the Bishop-elect…

The holy relics of Saint John the New of Suceava toured the Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți at the beginning of this week ‘to bring again the belief that we are not alone and that the saints protect us and intercede with God on our behalf,’ assistant bishop Damaschin of Dorna noted in a message…

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The Bishop of Orehovo-Zuevо, His Grace Panteleimon, the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Ministry, this week met with the heads of Metropolises’ social ministry programs. Specifically, 219 officials from 134 ecclesiastical jurisdictions of the Russian Orthodox Church convened in an online assembly, with the main topics discussed being…

Today marks the two-year anniversary of our online newscasts from the Orthodoxia News Agency’s website. Amid a very crucial period for Orthodoxy around the world, where the pandemic is forcing cathedrals to close their doors and where the sacrament of the Holy Communion is under persecution by many quarters, the Church is called upon to…

The US Supreme Court has temporarily barred the state of New York from enforcing strict attendance limits on places of worship, in areas designated as coronavirus “hot spots”. The ruling, take by a 5-4 decision, was released late Wednesday. The high court ruled that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive order violated the First Amendment’s…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the continuation of a partial lock-down in the country until the beginning of January, with some relaxation for the Christmas period. She emphasized that “the situation does not allow us to lift the restrictions of November”. Merkel said services in Churches for Christmas Eve and the rest of the holy…

US President-elect Joe Biden has announced that he will nominate former Deputy Secretary of State and Deputy National Security Advisor Antony Blinken as the next US Secretary of State. The 58-year-old career diplomat, just a month ago, when asked about Turkish provocations on the divided island of Cyprus, stated on his Twitter account that “…We…

A latest round of medical tests on the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, will determine when the Primate of the Church of Greece will be discharged from an Athens hospital. His Beatitude was hospitalized last week as a precaution, after testing positive for Covid-19. According to information collected by the Orthodoxia…