After more than two years, the ecclesiastical court decision to defrock Archdeacon Andrei Kuraev has finally come into force, returning him to the status of a layman.
The Patriarchate of Constantinople has a long history of cooperation with the U.S. intelligence community, as detailed in documents released by the CIA.
His Eminence Metropolitan Petar of Prespa and Pelagonia’s comments to TV Thelma come against the background of the question of the MOC’s precise status within the Orthodox world.
The World Council of Churches should do everything it can to put a stop to the persecution of the martyric Ukrainian Orthodox Church, says one outspoken hierarch of the Jerusalem Patriarchate.
The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in America elected a new bishop for the Diocese of New England and the Albanian Archdiocese this week.