In Holy Week, he was twice blocked from flying to Jerusalem to retrieve the Holy Fire at the Holy Sepulchre, and yesterday he was prevented from going on pilgrimage to Turkey.
An appellate court has ruled that the centuries-old complex of a convent in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr Province must be transferred from private Church ownership to the state.
A Greek Orthodox metropolitan has issued a strongly-worded pastoral letter warning his congregation against what he calls the “systematic” proselytizing activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Chalkidiki region of northern Greece.
Over the weekend, the myrrh-streaming and wonderworking Hawaiian Iveron Icon of the Mother of God was solemnly received at the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos Cathedral of the Diocese of America and Canada of the Macedonian Orthodox Church-Ohrid Archbishopric in the Sterling Heights suburb of Detroit.
The Metropolitan, whom His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia chose in 2017 to serve as Locum Tenens of the Patriarchal throne should the need arise, addressed the congregation about the distinctive characteristics of sainthood and the path to spiritual development.