Metropolitan Athenagoras of Vize of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, who served in Mexico for 27 years, reposed in the Lord yesterday.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko)
In Ukraine, the supporters of the structure created as a result of the tomos produced, according to which their head is not Christ but rather the Constantinople Patriarch, have unleashed large-scale persecutions against the UOC.
The Romanian Orthodox Church has rejected the Ukrainian ambassador to Romania’s call for it to formally recognize the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” which is recognized as schismatic by the majority of the Orthodox world.
The completed icon, which has been housed at the OCA Chancery offices in Springfield, Virginia, since its completion earlier this year, features all saints of North America listed in the Orthodox Church in America’s diptychs.
His Eminence Metropolitan Dimitrios of Gjirokastër reposed in the Lord on Friday, June 28, at the age of 85.