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.
The church, known in Greek as Vevekiou, is one of the best-known Greek Orthodox landmarks along the strait.
Fr. Ephraim, affectionately known as Papa Ephraim, talked with the monks about the monastic life and the inner life.
The Church says in its announcement that the new location places the primate’s residence and the central administrative offices close to the primatial cathedral, which will strengthen the liturgical, pastoral and administrative life of the Church.
The katholikon at the Greek Orthodox monastery founded by Elder Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona in Washington state was festively consecrated on Sunday, September 27.
St. Nikita of Kostroma, a relative and disciple of St. Sergius, founded the monastery with the latter’s blessing. He became the spiritual father of monasticism in the Kostroma region and brought the rule of St. Sergius’s Holy Trinity Monastery to the Theophany Monastery.
After many years of searching and visiting different Christian communities, the family shared that something immediately felt familiar when they first stepped into an Orthodox church. They described a deep sense of recognition, as though they had finally arrived at the Church they had been looking for.
The service was led by Archbishop Elpidophoros, head of the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
Without any rush, each guest was able to speak about what pains him, the worries he carries, and what he needs.
There was something fitting about beginning the archpastoral visit this way. For more than two centuries, the story of Orthodoxy in Alaska has been inseparable from journeys across water.
The relics of the holy New Martyr Chryse, also known as Zlata, have been found in the Pella region of northern Greece, and scientific testing has now confirmed their authenticity.
The Vysotsky Monastery in Serpukhov, founded by St. Sergius of Radonezh over six centuries ago, is marking 35 years since monastic life returned to its walls after decades of Soviet closure.
Six hierarchs of the Romanian Orthodox Church consecrated the Church of St. Elijah the Prophet in Verona, Italy, on Saturday, September 26, marking the culmination of decades of work by the local Romanian community.
The Archangel Gabriel Church itself has, like many others across America, been experiencing rapid growth especially over the past few years. The parish has celebrated several mass Baptisms and Chrismations over the past year.
The monastery was founded in 1001 by Prince Vladimir the Great as a men’s monastery of the Dormition, on a defensible cape above the Luga River.
St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary’s online school is offering a four-week course this fall examining how the Eucharist shapes Christian moral life, from marriage to the treatment of the poor to reconciliation with enemies.
The church is considered a monument of medieval Georgian architecture, dated to the 10th and 11th centuries. It was originally built as a single-nave structure, with additional chambers later added to the south side and, still later, to the north.
Sts. Peter and Paul is one of only two Orthodox churches in Crawford County.
Talks between the brotherhood of St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mt. Sinai and the Egyptian government have stalled, with a proposed legal framework for the historic monastery’s future left unfinished and no timeline in sight for resuming negotiations.
The new deanery brings together Orthodox communities and missions across Hawaii, the Mariana Islands, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, and Tahiti in French Polynesia.
