Metropolitan Kyrillos of Moschonisia, a retired hierarch of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, reposed in the Lord yesterday, May 26.
The fire occurred on the same day that the Chernivtsi Province police reported opening a criminal case against the staff of the orphanage operated by the monastery.
The Grodno Diocese of the Belarusian Orthodox Church celebrated its 125th anniversary yesterday with a procession with a wonderworking icon and a hierarchical Divine Liturgy.
The Russian Orthodox Church festively marked the feast of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, the Apostles to the Slavs, on Saturday, May 24.
St. Sofian (Boghiu) of Antim Monastery, one of the great elders of the 20th century canonized by the Romanian Orthodox Church last July, was honored this weekend with a newly consecrated church being placed under his Heavenly protection.