The Antiochian Synod has repeatedly expressed its prayerful support for the UOC under His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine.
His Holiness Patriarch Neofit of Bulgaria was laid to rest in Sofia on Saturday, March 16.
His Grace Bishop Antonije of Moravica, who had headed the Serbian Church’s podvoriye in Moscow since 2002, reposed in the Lord on March 11 at the age of 54.
As every year, the primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has blessed the faithful to take up a special Lenten prayer rule for spiritual growth and for peace.
The UOJ published an open appeal to international human rights organizations to respond as they are able to the “detention and persecution” of the journalists, lawyers, and human rights defenders. Five people are currently being held in a pre-trial detention center.
The former head of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, Joseph Zehlaoui, was defrocked by the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Antioch during its session in Balamand, Lebanon, this week.
A parish in rural Moldova has begun delivering hot meals to lonely and bedridden elderly people.
The Metropolis of Drama considers the discovery a great blessing and will continue the struggle to return other manuscripts and relics to the monastery.
Following the consecration, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated, attended by monastics from throughout the diocese and from Mt. Athos, and a crowd of Orthodox faithful.
The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church rejects the Patriarchate of Alexandria’s decision to defrock another Russian hierarch who has been active in Africa.
His Eminence Metropolitan Timotej of Debar and Kičevo commented on remarks from Professor Marjan Đurovski from the Security Institute of the Faculty of Philosophy, who claimed on Tuesday that MOC hierarchsare involved in espionage for non-Western intelligence services.
The monastery dates back to at least the early 16th century. It was closed in 1922 and reopened in 1992.
The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church resolved to canonize five new saints at its session yesterday, March 12, held in Moscow under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
The Patriarch was in poor health in recent years.
The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church strongly disagrees with the recent resolutions of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church concerning Ukraine and Moldova.
Before its restoration, the church collapsed walls, and the frescoes were missing, presumably looted.
One of the four men detained is the rector of a church in the capital.
The Synodal Missionary Department of the Russian Orthodox Church has launched a pilot educational course for blogger priests and missionaries.
The Russian hierarchs refer to a decree from Patriarch St. Tikhon of 1920 that can be taken as a precedent for resolving such situations when the front line of a war or change of a state border cuts clergy and laity off from their hierarch.
According to Metropolitan Philotheos, posters for the movie Stray Bodies by Elina Psykou, “exceed the limits of malicious provocation … under the guise of a dubious artistic approach.”