The retreat combined lectures, panel discussions, and smaller group conversations, with many participants staying up late talking with presenters after sessions ended.
The steeple is part of the congregation’s long-running plan to build a new roughly 4,900-square-foot cathedral on its 4.7-acre property on Philmont Avenue.
The conference emphasized how a beautiful choir helps to facilitate and elevate prayer within the Divine Services, and the importance of pursuing a higher standard of musicality.
Ilia II Street is one of Mtskheta’s main and busiest thoroughfares, following a section of the historical military road that runs through the city.
Monk Varsonofy, a resident of the Svyatogorsk Lavra, was killed on August 23 at around 11 AM, with two others seriously wounded in the same incident.
Thousands of children in Romania’s Galați and Brăila counties are getting new backpacks stocked with school supplies, courtesy of a charitable program run by the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of Lower Danube.
The rebuilding capped off a week of events called Light from Aleppo, organized by the Archdiocese of Aleppo and Dependencies.
St. Makary, known as the Apostle to the Altai, spent decades evangelizing the Altai region before later serving as Metropolitan of Moscow.
The Jamaican Orthodox Mission celebrated a blessed event this weekend with the illumination of several new Orthodox Christians.
Saturday’s Baptism was the latest in a string of mass Baptisms in America in recent years.
The Metropolitan was invited by the local hierarch His Eminence Mitrofan of Toronto and Metropolitan of Canada.
Throughout Akhiok's history, outside religious movements and sects have periodically entered the village seeking converts, but generations of faithful have remained determined to preserve the Orthodox faith entrusted to them by their ancestors.
Vandals broke into a remote mountain church in Albania, smashing icons and damaging sacred objects.
A new English translation of ascetical homilies attributed to St. Ephrem the Syrian is now available from Patristic Nectar Publications.
Every year, the UOC distributes hundreds of backpacks with school supplies for children from needy and suffering families.
The premiere of Reeves’s “Divine Liturgy for Small and Large Choirs” formed part of this broader commemoration of the late Archbishop, bringing together sacred music, liturgical worship, and the continuing artistic life of the Orthodox Church in America.
The acts of canonization of six Athonite saints were formally entered into the Codex of Patriarchal and Synodal Acts.
The locally canonized St. Olga of the Florovsky Convent was glorified in a service led by Metropolitan Onuphry on Monday.
The feast of St. Joachim of Osogovo has been an occasion for inter-Orthodox concelebrations since the Macedonian Orthodox Church returned to canonical communion in 2022
The Russian Federation will be submitting a report prepared by the Foreign Ministry to the UN, the OSCE, and the Vatican regarding Ukraine’s unlawful actions against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
