During the fifth plenary session of the Sacred Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, held Wednesday, 03 February 2016, in the Synodal Hall of Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, the canonization proposal of…
Forty days after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, on February 2nd, the Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast of the Meeting of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in the Temple.…
The area of the Cherith brook and the Monastery of St George the Chosebite within it, the place where we hold today this Joint Patriarchal Liturgy, have proven to be sites of revelation of God’s…
On the feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs: St. Basil the Great, St Gregory the Theologian and John Hrisostom, on 30 January 2016, the Metropolitan Cathedral from Timişoara celebrated its historical patron feast. On this…
Sunday, 31 January 2016, the Patriarchate of Jerusalem proclaimed Ioan Iacob from Neamt as a saint. The proclamation festivities of canonisation were led by His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem, who celebrated the Divine…
On the feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs: St Basil the Great, St Gregory the Theologian and St John Chrysostom, on 30 January 2016, the Patriarch Justinian Faculty of Orthodox Theologyin Bucharest celebrated its spiritual…
Saturday, 30 January 2016, a group of priests celebrated, with the blessing of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, the memorial service for commemorating three months since the fire which broke out on 30 October 2015, at…
Saturday, 30 January 2016, the Orthodox Church celebrated the Three Saints Hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom. His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania delivered a sermon in the chapel of the…
Thursday evening, 28 January 2016, while participating in the Pan-Orthodox Synaxis held in Chambésy, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania met the priests of the deanery of Switzerland. His Eminence Iosif, Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of…
The address of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, delivered at the Bossey Institute reception offered for the Primates of the Orthodox Churches, 26 January 2016: His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew asked us to talk…
The Primates of the Orthodox Churches visited Tuesday, 26 January 2016, the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey. Tuesday evening, the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Rev. dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, offered a…
COMMUNIQUÉ(below you can also find the Greek, French and Russian translation of the text) At the invitation of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the Synaxis of Primates of the Orthodox Autocephalous Churches took place at…
The Patriarchate of Jerusalem will formally recognize Sunday, 31 January 2016, the sainthood of the Romanian Venerable Father John Jacob of Neamţ, or the Hozevite, as the Representative of the Romanian Patriarchate to the Holy…
His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew received Monday, 25 January 2016, the visit of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, at his patriarchal residence in Chambésy. During the visit, the Patriarch Daniel granted St John Chrysostom…
The Primates of the Autocephalous Orthodox Churches, who currently participate at the Synaxis held in Chambésy – Geneva, concelebrated Sunday, 24 January 2016, the Divine Liturgy at St Paul Church of the Orthodox Centre of…
The Synaxis of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches from all around the world is taking place these days at the Orthodox Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Chambesy, near Geneva, Switzerland. His Beatitude Daniel,…
Address of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, delivered in the opening of the Synaxis of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches, 22 January 2016, Chambésy, Switzerland: Your Holiness, Your Beatitudes, Your Eminences, Your Graces,…
From 22 to 27 January 2016, at the Orthodox Centre of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Chambésy, the works of the Synaxis of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches are being carried out. At the opening…