His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople has arrived in Bucharest to lead the historic consecration ceremony of Romania’s National Cathedral, a memorial church built in honor of all the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country’s independence. Born Demetrios Archondonis in 1940 on the island of Imvros (today, Gökçeada, Turkey), His All-Holiness Bartholomew…

On Wednesday, November 21, 2018, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the Synaxis of Archangels Michael and Gabriel and of all the heavenly hosts in Joppa, at the Holy Monastery of the Patriarchate dedicated to Archangel Michael. The Church of the monastery had been completely destroyed by a fire and it was then rebuilt from…

In the year when the 140th anniversary of the existence and work of the Military Hospital in Nis and 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War is marked, and in the glory of the ancestors, founders of the Serbian medicine and all those who gave their lives for the liberty of the…

His Holiness Irinej Serbian Patriarch Iinej officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Cathedral church in Belgrade on 21 November 2018, on the feast-day of the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the Other Bodiless Powers. At the magnificent Liturgy the Patriarch was concelebrated by protopresbyter-stavrophors: Savo B. Jovic, Vladimir Vukasinovic, Vitaly Tarasyev, MilojkoTopalovic, Radic…

The Church-School Community of Innsbruck was founded in 1992 and since then it has used a rented church in that town. After many years of searching for the permanent solution, the Church-School Community of Innsbruck received a magnificent invaluable church in the center of the city as a gift from the Roman Catholic Order of…

The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts marked on 19th November 2018 its Day by introducing new correspondent members, by opening Audiovisual Archive and the Center for digitalization as well as a permanent exhibition of the collection of the Medal Cabinet of the SASA Archive. The marking of the Day of SASA was attended by…

On 21 November 2018, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with members of the Council of Church Leaders of Iraq. Taking part in the meeting, which was held at the Patriarchal and Synodal residence in St. Daniel’s Monastery, were Archbishop Avak Asadourian of the Iraqi diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church…

On 22 November 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR) arrived in Seoul with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. Metropolitan Hilarion leads a delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Round Table “Russian Orthodox Church and Compatriots. Experience…

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, greeted His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, with the anniversary of his enthronement. The text is given below. Your Beatitude: Please accept my heartfelt greeting with the anniversary of Your enthronement as Patriarch…