His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, received Mr. Vladan Vukosavljevic, Minister of Culture and Information at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade on December, 20th, 2018. The audience was attended by Bishop Stefan of Remesiana, Vicar of the Serbian Patriarch and the dean of the Saint Sava Cathedral in the district of Vracar; Mr. Goran Vesic, Mayor…

On the occasion of the Patron Saint-day of the church, His Holiness Irinej, the Serbian Patriarch, officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in Saint Nicholas church in Zemun on 19 December 2018. The Patriarch was concelebrated by protopresbyter-staurophors Dragomir Sando and Milorad Niskic, protonamesnik Drasko Tepavac, presbyter Vladimir Prasic, protodeacon Stevan Rapajic and deacons Dragan Tanasijevic…

His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, the primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, celebrated the Divine Liturgy yesterday on the feast of the holy hierarch St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of Myra in Lycia in the St. Nicholas house church in the residence of the primate of the UOC at the Kiev Caves…

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on Wednesday evening welcomed several groups of young people at his patriarchal residence in Bucharest to listen to their Christmas carol recitals. The first Christmas carols were sung by the female Byzantine choir of St Catherine University Chapel in Bucharest, led by Rev. Georgian Paunoiu. His Beatitude also welcomed the Romanian…

Patriarch Daniel attended the annual Christmas Carol Concert on Monday evening at the Palace of the Patriarchate in Bucharest in honour of His Beatitude’s patron Saint, the Holy Prophet Daniel. Romania’s Minister of National Education joined the event by the Romanian Patriarchate’s Nicolae Lungu mixed voice choir and the Tronos Byzantine choir of the Patriarchal…

“Make ready, O Bethlehem, let the manger be prepared, Let the Cave show its welcome. The truth is come the shadow is passed away; God hath appeared from a Virgin unto men, Formed as we are and deifying that which He hath assumed.” (Plagal of fourth Tone by Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem) During the joyful…

A deep wound has been inflicted on the canonical Orthodoxy in Ukraine and worldwide, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia wrote in the letters addressed to the Primates of the Local Orthodox Churches. The messages were sent to His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria, His Beatitude Patriarch John X…

More than half the priests of the Diocese of Vinnitsa of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church who followed their hierarch Simeon Shostasky, the former Metropolitan of Vinnitsa and Bar, into schism in the new Ukrainian nationalist church following Saturday’s “unification council” have already repented of their poor decision and returned to the canonical Ukrainian Church headed…

The creation of a new church in Ukraine by schismatics will lead the country to spiritual death, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia said during a church service in St. Nicholas Ugresha Monastery in the Moscow Region on Wednesday. “Today we are concerned about everything happening in Ukraine. That’s a vivid example of how…