The Romanian Synod dedicates every year to a specific theme, with events throughout the year celebrating a different aspect of the Orthodox Christian spiritual life.
The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has again expressed its support for the suffering people of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Due to Pat. Theodoros’ communion with schismatics and “proceeding from the universally recognized principle rooted in the canons and Tradition of the non-jurisdiction of the clergy of one autocephalous Church to the court of another autocephalous Church,” the Russian Holy Synod ruled yesterday to consider the defrocking of Met. Leonid and the other Russian clergy “as having no canonical force and invalid.”
Frequent processions with wonderworking icons and relics aren’t a part of Cypriot tradition and should be curbed, believes the new Archbishop of Cyprus.
Two hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North America have appealed to state officials concerning the recent decision of Pristina authorities to block His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije from entering Kosovo on a pastoral visit.