The rite was led by His Grace Bishop Nichifor of Botoșani and His Grace Bishop Veniamin of Southern Bessarabia, with a host of clerics. The relics of the great saints were carefully removed from their resting place, cleaned of soil, and reverently placed in new wooden coffins.
A new Serbian Orthodox church in Germany was consecrated on Thomas Sunday, April 27.
His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije of the Serbian Orthodox Church was visited yesterday by His Eminence Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus and Elder Ephraim, the abbot of Vatopedi Monastery on Mt. Athos.
On Bright Saturday, April 26, His Eminence Metropolitan Benjamin of Minsk, primate of the Belarusian Orthodox Church, led the consecration of the renovated Holy Dormition Cathedral at the Holy Dormition-Zhirovichi Monastery.
Orthodox Christian prisoners of Maidstone Prison in Kent, England, were blessed with a visit from a local hierarch and the celebration of the Divine Liturgy in Bright Week.
Met. Saba wrote the article in response to “a sensitive issue that has been raised in various circles” within his Archdiocese, noting that many faithful are “confused due to the lack of accurate and official information” regarding relations with the Non-Chalcedonian churches, particularly the Coptic church.
His Eminence faces up to eight years in prison.
According to Staffan Jansson, head of the local administration, this is the first time the question of expropriation of property based on connections with Russia has arisen in Västerås.
Hierarchs of the Jerusalem and Bulgarian Patriarchates joined clerics of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Spiritual Mission in Jerusalem for the annual celebration of the Meeting of the Most Holy Theotokos with Righteous Elizabeth and the transfer of a venerated icon of the Annunciation during Bright Week.
The relics of another recently canonized Romanian saint were solemnly uncovered on Saturday, April 26.
Today’s service was held in the Lavra’s Holy Dormition Cathedral. It was celebrated in Church Slavonic and Serbian.
A famous wooden church complex in the Belgorod Province of Russia was completely destroyed today after it caught fire from a drone strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The 40th anniversary of Orthodoxy in Kaliningrad was festively celebrated on Wednesday, April 23, with the Divine Liturgy in Christ the Savior Cathedral, presided over by His Eminence Metropolitan Seraphim of the Baltic and His Grace Bishop Nikolai of Chernyakhovsk.
The president believes that “The Moscow Patriarchate undermines the sovereignty and democracy of states,” but that the act, as currently worded, could do more harm than good.
Orthodox clergy gathered at Queen’s Park, which houses the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, on Tuesday, April 22 to celebrate the first annual Orthodox Christian Week.
Schema-Archimandrite Panteleimon, who served as abbot of Holy Cross Monastery in Wayne, West Virginia, for 10 years, reposed in the Lord today.
The hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church was 84 years old. He served in the episcopal dignity for 40 years.
As St. Gregory of Nazianzus once said, “Baptism is God’s most beautiful and magnificent gift… a gift which no one can buy, but everyone can receive.”
The Sumy Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church held its annual “Bright Deeds for the Bright Day” charity drive during Great Lent this year.
It appeared in the edicule (the small chapel built over the burial place of Christ) about five mintues after the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, entered there to patiently pray and wait.
