The Metropolitan stated in his homily that St. Ambrose “emerged as a great Father of the Church who fought against heresies, even Arianism.”
Reflecting upon his decades of service to the Church, His Beatitude told his flock: “If anything was good, it was only through your prayers and with your help.”
She spent the last 37 of those years as abbess of the Prislop Monastery.
Greece’s New Democracy government is finalizing a bill that aims to legalize same-sex marriage and regulate the recognition of same-sex marriages that took place abroad.
The Finnish Church is the only Orthodox Church in the world to date Pascha according to the Gregorian Paschalion—a practice that dates to 1923.