His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent greetings with the Nativity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria, His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch, His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch Ilya II of Georgia,…

Tarpon Springs, Fla. – Jan 6, 2019 – The Feast of Epiphany is the most important day for this city of the Tampa Bay area, known around the country and the world, as “Epiphany City.” His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America, once again presided at the annual 113th celebration of Theophany (Epiphany), the Hierarchal Divine…

The Hierarchy of the Church of Greece, comprised of 82 bishops, will decide in late February whether or not to recognize the autocephaly of the Church of Ukraine, which was formally granted independence from Moscow last Sunday by Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios. The decision was ceded to the hierarchy after a session on Tuesday, January…

On Christmas Day, January 7, a liturgy started in St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv where a tomos of autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine as one of the 15 local Orthodox churches is being shown to the public. Leader of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epifaniy (Epiphanius) of Kyiv and All Ukraine and…

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, celebrated the All Night Vigil with blessing of the Yule log in the Saint Sava Cathedral in the Vracar district on 6 January 2019, on Christmas Eve. Beside many believers, the prayerful service was attended by Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Ivica Dacic and Minister of Defence Aleksandar Vulin.

His Holiness Irinej, Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, officiated on Christmas, January 7, 2019, the triumphant hierarchal Liturgy in the church of the Holy Prince Lazar, i.e. the crypt of the Memorial Church of St. Sava in Belgrade. In the prayerful presence of Patriarch’s Vicar Bishop Stefan of Remesiana, Princpal of the Memorial Church…

President Petro Poroshenko has awarded Ecumenical Patriarch, Archbishop of Constantinople – New Rome His All-Holiness Bartholomew with the Order of Merit of the First Degree, the presidential press service has reported. Poroshenko presented the award for the exceptional personal contribution of His All-Holiness to the development of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the rise…

Responding to Patriarch Bartholomew’s request to recognize the results of December 15’s “unification council” and the nationalist Ukrainian church created there, His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch urged Pat. Bartholomew to stop the process of granting autocephaly until a pan-Orthodox solution could be found to the Ukrainian crisis. As orthochristian.com reported, Pat. Bartholomew did…

The process of creating a new autocephalous Ukrainian church concluded on Sunday, January 6, 2019, as Patriarch Bartholomew handed the tomos of autocephaly to the primate of the new nationalist church “Metropolitan” Epiphany Dumenko in the Church of St. George in Istanbul. Constantinople now faces the task of convincing the entire Orthodox world to recognize…