Several inmates at SCI Waymart, the correctional institution down the road from St. Tikhon’s Seminary in northeastern Pennsylvania, were recently received into the holy Orthodox Church.
The hierarchs of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church consecrated a new brother bishop yesterday at the famous Rila Monastery on the feast of its holy founder, St. John of Rila.
Metropolitan Athenagoras of Vize of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, who served in Mexico for 27 years, reposed in the Lord yesterday.
The Romanian Orthodox Church has rejected the Ukrainian ambassador to Romania’s call for it to formally recognize the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” which is recognized as schismatic by the majority of the Orthodox world.
“The Orthodox Community Council will not allow the desecration of a holy place, has filed a police complaint, and will follow up on it,” the church’s statement reads.