“It pleased the Lord that Rus’ be led not by some great military commander, not by some wise ruler, but by a humble monk who lived in the forest,” the Patriarch said, noting that this was the very place where those present were standing.
Archaeologists digging beside the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral in Pereslavl-Zalessky have found what they believe are the remains of Hieromartyr Konstantin Synatinovsky, a priest killed in 1918.
President Alar Karis twice declined to promulgate the law before it was passed a third time on September 17, 2025.
Hundreds of pilgrims gathered in the village of Nosów on October 5 to honor the Leśna Icon of the Theotokos, as three hierarchs of the Polish Orthodox Church joined in celebrating the feast at the Church of the Holy Archangel Michael.
The group visited 11 monasteries—nine on the Holy Mountain and two in Greece.
Besides Fr. George, Nigerian priests of the Russian Orthodox Church also addressed the faithful of the group, telling them about their own paths to Orthodoxy and their experience of becoming churched.
Hierarchs from six Local Orthodox Churches concelebrated the festive Divine Liturgy in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, on October 7.
Fr. David Hovik serves as rector of St. Andrew, which entered the Orthodox Church about 30 years ago after converting from a nondenominational Protestant background.
The survey, coordinated by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, was conducted in December 2025 and included 7,500 congregations, 270 of them Orthodox.
His Grace Bishop Gerasim of Fort Worth led a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at St. Innocent Orthodox Church in Macon on Sunday, October 4, marking the parish’s 30th anniversary.
The Yaroslavl Diocese was established in the Rostov lands in 991, three years after the Baptism of Rus’.
Eleven hierarchs of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America concelebrated a pan-Orthodox Divine Liturgy at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Pittsburgh on Sunday.
The parish has steadily grown since its foundation, and in July, it moved into a new location.
The next day, the newly illumined received Holy Communion for the first time at a Liturgy celebrated by His Eminence Metropolitan Sergei of Singapore and Southeast Asia.
Many dioceses of the Romanian Church have a strong tradition of providing housing to needy families, and this project continues that work.
Holy Apostles Orthodox Church in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania (Orthodox Church in America), is another of the many parishes across America that have been growing rapidly over the past several years.
Archimandrite Justin (Mamallos), the long-time guardian of Jacob’s Well Monastery in the Holy Land, reposed in the Lord yesterday following a prolonged illness.
In 1923, a fire badly damaged the wooden church. The icon survived, though it was damaged, and it was sent across the Atlantic to Aegina for restoration. It never returned to Florida, and 103 years passed.
A fire destroyed All Saints Orthodox Church in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, on the evening of Wednesday, September 30, leaving the building gutted.
The items come from the Panagia Eikosifoinissa Monastery, the Monastery of the Honorable Forerunner in Serres, and the Metropolis of Serres and Nigrita. They were taken to Sofia in 1917, and were displayed or stored at Bulgaria’s National Museum of History.
