The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week received a letter by the president of the newly christened Republic of North Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovski, who appealed to the Patriarchate to recognize the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in his small south Balkan country. According to media reports, Pendarovski’s letter to the…

Members of the Episcopal council of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro this week expressed their admiration and gratitude towards the citizens in the small Adriatic country for defending, as they said, the Church and its saints over the past few months. Results of a general election in late August ended the two-decades-long reign of…

The Metropolitan of Thessaliotidos and Farsala, His Eminence Timotheos, spoke to the Orthodoxia News Agency on Wednesday regarding the situation in his district after last weekend’s severe rainfall caused widespread flooding in central Greece. 

The Church today commemorates the Conception of St. John the Baptist. His birth came to pass 15 months before the birth of Christ, after a vision of the Angel that Zacharias, the father of the Forerunner, saw in the temple.

His Grace Bishop Fotije of Zvornik-Tuzla served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in Doboj on the occasion of the celebration of the Cathedral Memorial Church of the Birth of the Most Holy Mother of God, on September 21, 2020. Diocesan dean of Doboj, archpriest staurophore Mirko Nikolic; abbot of the Ozren Monastery, archimandrite Gavrilo (Stevanović); archpriests…

These villages may look like they belong in fairy tales but they’re real-life places. Romania’s remote northwestern region of Maramureș has a unique architectural style, where tall, tower-like wooden churches with shingled roofs dot the landscape. Incredibly, some of them are 400 years old. Several of these churches, built using local oak, are on the…

Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II and his family were canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia on November 1, 1981. On August 20, 2000, they were also canonized by the Moscow Patriarchate. This Sunday, Orthodox faithful from throughout Russia gathered in the Moscow region to honor the Royal Martyrs on the occasion of the 20th…

COVID-19 continues to challenge the world, churches, and ministry. The National Council of Churches USA and the Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University are pleased to present the first of a series of webinars highlighting some of these ecclesial challenges. The discussion will also highlight how churches is striving to meet these challenges, as…

Today, on September 22, 2020, Archbishop Elpidophoros was recognized by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams as one of “Brooklyn’s COVID Heroes” for the Archdiocesan COVID-19 Relief Fund. Established in March 2020 under the direction of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, the fund was an important part of the Archdiocese’s efforts to support those around the country…