Unknown perpetrators vandalized a parish of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Zaporozhye with fascist symbols, the press service of the local department of the Ukrainian National Police. This is the second such incidence in the Zaporozhye Diocese in a week. According to the statement, the police received a message from the rector of the…
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on Saturday chaired the Diocesan Assembly of the Archdiocese of Bucharest at the Synodal Hall of the patriarchal residence, where His Beatitude presented the 2018 annual report. Attending the meeting were all the members of the Diocesan Assembly, including the patriarchal auxiliary Bishops Varlaam of Ploiesti and Ieronim of Sinaia, as…
The Church of Greece and the Ecumenical Patriarchate are fully in line on the need for clerics to remain in the state payroll and on the constitutional revisions planned by the government, the two bodies said in a joint statement on Tuesday, after a meeting in Athens between Archbishop Ieronymos and a delegation of the…
During its working session on Feb. 7, the Permanent Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church declared 2020 as Commemorative Year of Saint Nectarios of Aegina, marking the 100th anniversary of his blessed repose in the Lord. The hierarchs announced that the annual Diptycha volume of the Church of Greece for 2020, containing details regarding…
On Monday afternoon, January 29/ February 11, 2019, the Minister of Culture and Tourism of Greece Mrs. Elena Kountoura visited the Patriarchate along with associates of her office and the Consul General of Greece in Jerusalem Mr. Christos Sophianopoulos. The Minister was received by H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos and Hagiotaphite Fathers….
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent a letter to His Beatitude Metropolitan Rostislav of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, greeting him with the 5th anniversary of enthronement. The text of the message is given below. Your Beatitude, Please accept my heartfelt greetings with the 5th anniversary…
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and Russia congratulated His Beatitude Metropolitan Rostislav of the Czech Lands and Slovakia on the anniversary of his enthronement. His Beatitude Rostislav Archbishop of Peć Metropolitan of the Czech Lands and Slovakia Your Beatitude, Beloved in the Lord Brother and Concelebrant at God’s Altar: Please accept my cordial greetings…
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent a letter to His Beatitude Patriarch John X of the Great Antioch and All the East, greeting him with the anniversary of enthronement. Your Beatitude, I cordially congratulate you upon the day of your Patriarchal enthronement. Throughout the years of…
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia greeted His Beatitude Patriarch John X of the Great Antioch and All the East with the anniversary of his enthronement. His Beatitude JOHN X Patriarch of Great Antioch and All the East Your Beatitude, Beloved in the Lord Brother and Concelebrant at God’s Altar: I cordially…