The Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, chaired by His All Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, convened at the Patriarchate’s Phanar-district seat this week. According to an announcement by the first secretariat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, hierarchs of the Synod considered issues on the agenda, for which the appropriate decisions were…

The Vatopedi Brotherhood on Wednesday, amid an atmosphere of devoutness and deep emotion, conducted the Translation of the Relics of reposed Elder Joseph of Vatopedi, the spiritual father and mentor of the Brotherhood and a contemporary restorer of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos. The Translation of the Relics came 12…

The Church today venerates the memory of Hilarion the Great. Today is also the feast day of Hieromartyr Bishop Socrates of Ankara, and the Venerable Barnabas and Hilarion.

In a letter to President Joe Biden, 48 US senators expressed their full support for Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s visit to the United States. The initiative for sending the cross-party letter belongs to the Democratic senator Robert Menendez and his Republican colleague Marco Rubio. U.S. Senators pointed out to the President that they look forward to…

On Friday, 22 October 2021, the day that completes thirty years since the elevation of His All-Holiness to the Ecumenical Throne, there will be festive events held nationwide. Among others, on Friday evening at 7pm, at St Spyridon Parish, Kingsford, in Sydney, an anniversary event will be held in honour of our Ecumenical Patriarch. The…

Thousands of Orthodox faithful in Montenegro took to the streets throughout 2020 in defense of their holy sites against the pretensions of the anti-Orthodox government. Processions were held several times a week throughout the country, many led by the beloved Metropolitan Amfilohije, who reposed late in the year. Now those processions are immortalized in frescoes…

Thousands of churches across Russia lie in ruin after the devastating Soviet period, though the Russian Church is gradually working to identify, restore, and reopen them. Earlier this month, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated in a village 185 miles northeast of Moscow in an early 19th-century church that was closed by the godless authorities and…

On Monday, His Eminence Archbishop Sophrony of Mogilev and Mistislav of the Belarusian Church celebrated the Divine Liturgy at St. Nicholas Convent in Mogilev in honor of the 30th anniversary of the monastery’s revival after the devastating Soviet period. The monastery ensemble is one of the oldest in eastern Belarus. The pearl is the unique…

High quality religious education in schools would help prevent school shootings, believes His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. The Patriarch met with teachers of the foundations of religious cultures and secular ethics in Moscow yesterday. “No matter how much those who are against any mention of religion in school talk about secularism…