During the meeting, the greatest attention was dedicated to the celebration the 800th anniversary of the Serbian Orthodox Church’s authocephaly and the establishment of the Zaholm-Herzegovina Diocese. Bishop Dimitrije informed the Chairman of the Presidency of BandH about the dynamics of the renovation of the Old School and the Cathedral Church in Mostar, which should…

The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church awarded the Interparliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the high decoration of the Holy Emperor Constantine for its support in preserving the religious and cultural heritage of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo and Metohija. The decoration was received by…

The hierarchs of the Romanian Orthodox Church came together for the first working session of the Holy Synod on Thursday, after asking for God’s help and inspiration during a Te Deum service officiated at St George chapel of the Patriarchal Residence by Bishop Andrei of Covasna and Harghita. Gathered under the chairmanship of His Beatitude…

  His Beatitude, Theodore II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, this week flew from Pointe-Noire, in the Republic of the Congo, for the country’s capital, Brazzaville. Theodore is on a tour of the west Africa country. In Brazzaville, the Patriarch traveled by vessel along the Congo River to Kinshasa, the capital of…

  The Patriarch of Georgia, His Beatitude Ilia II, on Wednesday received the Metropolitan of Borispol and Brovary, His Eminence Anthony, who is also the chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP). The meeting was unofficial in nature, and reportedly aimed to exchange information over recent ecclesiastical developments in the…

  The Orthodox Patriarch of Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, this week chaired sessions of a national church council, convened at the patriarchal residence in Bucharest. Members of the council are tasked with assessing the Romanian Orthodox Church’s activities in 2018. Daniel cited the report, presented on Tuesday to members of the national council, and stressed…

Metropolitan Anthony (Pakanich) was accompanied by the deputy head of the DECR, Protopriest Nikolai Danilevich. On February 20, 2019, the UOC chancellor, Metropolitan Anthony (Pakanich) of Borispol and Brovary, discussed with His Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of All Georgia and the hierarchs of the Georgian Orthodox Church the current events in the church life of…

The Annual Meeting of the Council of the Metropolia of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA began on a high note as the members of the council participated in Divine Liturgy on the Feast Day of the Meeting of our Lord and Savior. With the Seminarians of the St. Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Theological Seminary…

A memorial service was held this week on the one-year anniversary of the death Dobri Dimitrov Dobrev, better known as Grandpa Dobri, a Bulgarian ascetic who walked some 20 kilometers each day to sit or stand in front of the Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky in Sofia, in order to collect money for charitable causes.