The official dedication of the new seminary building and chapel is planned for spring 2027.
The Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania has condemned clashes between police and protesters in the courtyard of the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Tirana, calling on all sides to respect sacred spaces and turn away from violence.
In an interview with Bulgarian National Television on the eve of his visit to Bulgaria, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople spoke of the Bulgarians who opposed his visit, characterizing them and likeminded Orthodox Christians in other countries as “zealots” and “extremists.”
A 58-year-old Greek Orthodox monk who set out for Turkey to live as a hermit has been missing for nearly three months, and his family still doesn’t know whether he’s alive.
The new Orthodox Christians were prepared through systematic catechesis led by the Patriarchal Vicar Archpriest Cleopas Bachuba, a native Tanzanian, and the seven priests of the area.
St. Thekla Orthodox Church, a new mission in the greater Houston area, has bought a property that it’s now converting into its new church.
The three-day celebration at St. George Church drew three bishops, along with clergy and laity from around North America.
Ukraine’s State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience is taking aim at another diocese of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
St. Nicholas is mainly made up of second- and third-generation parishioners whose families came from Lemkovyna, a region now divided among Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia.
The parish began as a mission with a handful of families in the summer of 2014, and in May of this year, Fr. Panayiotis and the faithful of St. Herman’s broke ground for the construction of a new church.
Bishop Epiphany of Belgorod founded the monastery in 1726, when the diocesan school, the Kharkov Collegium, was moved to the city. It got its name after a 1729 synodal decree attached the parish Church of the Protection of the Mother of God to it. That church is now the oldest building in Kharkov.
The delegation traveled to the United States in connection with the 1,700th anniversary of the proclamation of Christianity as the state religion in Georgia.
Two Orthodox primates stood together at the altar of Svetitskhoveli Cathedral on Wednesday to mark 1,700 years since Georgia proclaimed Christianity its state religion.
A small monastic community in the wilderness of British Columbia is looking for a buyer who’ll keep its chapel an Orthodox place of worship.
The miraculous myrrh-streaming Hawaiian Iveron Icon came to Holy Trinity on Sunday morning. A large crowd of parishioners and visitors welcomed and venerated the icon before the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy and again afterward, during an Akathist to the Icon.
On Saturday and Sunday, even without electricity at the church, the faithful went to give thanks to God for bringing them through the storm and to pray for those affected by it.
Hieroschemamonk Silouan (Lightle), abbot of the Monastery of the Holy Archangel Michael in Cañones, New Mexico, reposed in the Lord on the night of Monday, October 12, following a long battle with cancer.
The icons were located in the United Kingdom. Their movements were documented and the Church of Cyprus’s rights to them were recognized, which made it possible to return them to where they belong.
A little more than a year after launching a capital campaign, the community of Holy Apostles Greek Orthodox Church in Shoreline, Washington, has celebrated its first Divine Liturgy in its newly expanded church.
The procession was held in the lead-up to the feast of St. Parascheva on October 14, one of the largest religious events in Romania. It draws pilgrims from throughout the country and beyond over the days leading up to her feast.
