2023 is dedicated in Finland to the theme of Living Tradition, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO Treaty on the Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage, which Finland signed a decade ago.
Metropolitan Leonid of Klin, who was the head of the Russian Orthodox Church’s African Exarchate from the time it was established in December 2021, was released from this position yesterday by the Russian Holy Synod.
Met. Tikhon is among the most authoritative hierarchs in the Russian Church today and is well-known to the English-speaking Orthodox world as the author of Everyday Saints and the editor-in-chief of Pravoslavie.ru/OrthoChristian.com.
Unfortunately, the Georgian Church has had to defend itself against media attacks for many years now, including after LGBT events in Tbilisi in recent years.
The Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Raška and Prizren (Kosovo and Metohija) issued a statement on Monday, October 9, in response to recent statements by several far-right political groups.