His Holiness Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch, officiated the solemn rite of the proclamation of Very Reverend Archimandrite Jovan (Stanojevic) for Bishop of Hum, Vicar of Bishop of Dusseldorf and Germany in the old Cathedral church of Holy Archangel Michael on 9 October 2021 (photo gallery). Besides the primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the following…

The weekend of September 24th; 25th & 26th of 2021 – His Grace Bishop Longin with his company visited our parish in Galveston (Texas), where he presided at the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy. Concelebrants were Rev. Thomas Colyandro and Protodeacon Milovan Gogic. All of the responses to the Liturgy and Vespers were beautifully sung by the…

The first chapel for the indigenous Nanai people was consecrated in the far eastern Russian city of Khabarovsk last week. The building was consecrated on Wednesday, October 6, the Day of the Nanai Script, by Archpriest Sergei Samsonov, the head of the Commission for Interaction with Indigenous Peoples, reports the Priamur Metropolia of the Russian…

A new Orthodox chapel opened in western Brazil over the weekend, in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Diocese of Argentina and South America of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Chapel of Sts. Cyril and Methodius was opened by Archpriest Anatoly Topala on St. Vladimir Square in the municipality of Campina das Missões in…

Stories are perhaps the most engaging way to communicate timeless and eternal truths. This is especially the case for the young, who love fairy tales, but not only; as adults there is nothing we enjoy more than an uplifting, or poignant—but always meaningful—narrative. Even the Gospel, as we have received it in written form, is…

From the very first day of his ministry in the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s historic eparchy in Scandinavia, His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia ascertained the need for iconography in the Metropolis Cathedral in Stockholm, which would be added to certain areas so as not to alter the landmark structure’s historic design or intervene…

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Vatopedi Publications has unveiled a Greek-language book authored by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi, entitled “The Mystagogy of Prayer, According to the Elder Joseph of Vatopedi”. For more information, please visit the website http://www.vatopedi.gr

The sacrament of the Holy Unction was celebrated on Sunday during con-celebratory events for the Dimitria 2021 commemoration, held at the St. Demetrius Cathedral in the same-name municipality, thus inaugurating eight days of events and celebrations leading up to the feast day of Holy Great-Martyr Demetrius, the patron saint of Thessaloniki. Με την τέλεση του…