Over the past week, hierarchs from two Sister Local Churches made this pilgrimage to seek the blessing and intercession of the great St. Nektarios.
The enthronement of the new abbot of the Athonite Zographou Monastery (Bulgarian), Fr. Gavriil (Karatotev), was festively celebrated on Sunday, May 11.
According to a ruling from the Supreme Court of Ukraine last week, the 5-year imprisonment sentence against His Eminence Metropolitan Jonathan, formerly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s Tulchin Diocese, has entered into force and is not subject to further appeal.
Last July, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church canonized 16 martyrs, confessors, and ascetics who labored under the communist persecutions of the 20th century, including the Hieromartyr Ilarion (commemorated on September 18).
The Turov Diocese is among the oldest of the entire Russian Orthodox Church. The celebration coincided with the 895th anniversary of the birth of St. Cyril of Turov, who led the diocese in the 12th century.