A monk of a monastery from the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Alapaevsk died in the warzone over the weekend.
A number of hierarchs of the Orthodox Church of Greece have retired or reposed recently. Thus, during the first day of its latest session yesterday, Monday, October 9, the Council of Bishops elected 10 new hierarchs, and three more are to be elected today.
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the feast of St. Sergius of Radonezh, October 8, at the monastery founded by the great 14th-century father, where his relics lie in repose.
Orthodox faithful from all across Lithuania gathered in the capital on Saturday, October 7, for the Divine Liturgy and a procession with the wonderworking Surdegis Icon of the Mother of God.
In his homily on the feast of the Icon of the Mother of God “She Who is Quick to Hear” yesterday, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine recounted the miraculous story of how the Mother of God saved a nun from death when she was a child.