The Church of the Unexpected Joy Icon of the Mother of God in Zahlé was built in 2019–2024, and consecrated yesterday, Sunday, May 18.
Larin attempted to shift the issue away from her communion with schismatics, in direct disobedience to her own hierarchy, and paint herself as a martyr for the anti-war cause.
The Council of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church established several new feasts at its most recent session.
Archpriest John Behr, who taught at St. Vladimir’s Seminary in New York for 15 years, was awarded an honorary doctorate from Romania’s first higher education institution last week.
The gilded-silver cenotaph was made in 1823, the icons for the lid in 1882, and the lid itself in 1896. It was evacuated from the original Valaam Monastery on Lake Ladoga in Russia in 1939, and since 1958, it has been stored in the Orthodox RIISA Museum.