His Eminence Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou is known to abstain from concelebrations with the Cypriot primate, Archbishop Georgios of Paphos, because he supports the canonical Metropolitan of Kiev, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev.
Now, after nearly four years, a possible candidate for the office of Bishop of New England has been found and vetted.
From April 27 to May 2, His Eminence Metropolitan John of Dubna made his first pastoral visit to Martinique, an island of the French West Indies in the Caribbean Sea.
On Saturday, June 3, Schema-Archimandrite Dionisije (Pantelić), beloved elder of St. Stefan Monastery in the Serbian village of Lipovac, peacefully reposed in the Lord at the age of 90.
The Liturgy also marks the formal implementation of the earlier decision of both the Holy Synod of the Macedonian Orthodox Church-Ohrid Archbishopric and the Bishops’ Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church to dissolve the Ohrid Archbishopric of the Serbian Church and unite it with the Macedonian Church.