During an extraordinary coordination meeting held March 11, the Orthodox Episcopal Assembly of Benelux (CEOB-OBB) announced that the inter-Orthodox concelebration on the Sunday of Orthodoxy will not take place this year due to the coronavirus…
‘Some of you may wonder why the Church, in the midst of the current pandemic, would add to the already existing health restrictions yet another “quarantine,” namely Great Lent.’ “Indeed, Great Lent is also a…
“For Orthodox Christians in our complex, difficult times, full of spiritual disappointments, temptations and limitations of all kinds, Lent is of great spiritual importance,” His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Poland begins his Lenten epistle. Lent is…
Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili expressed his admiration for the Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II and disapproved of the slanders brought in the public space against the Georgian Orthodox Church. The Prime Minister of Georgia met on…
Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem published an open letter in which he referred to the dialogue that was held last year in Jordan for the sake of the unity of the Local Orthodox Churches. On February…
Serbian Patriarch Porfirije celebrated his first official Patriarchal Liturgy this Sunday at Saint Sava Cathedral in Belgrade. In his homily, he said that man’s natural state is illustrated by the publican’s humility. Only by following…
Metropolitan Porfirije Perić officially became the 46th Patriarch on the Throne of St. Sava, after his enthronement as the new Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovac and Patriarch of Serbia Hundreds gathered on Friday at…
His Grace Bishop Daniil of Dacia Felix conveyed congratulations to the newly elected Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church after his enthronement at St Michael Cathedral in Belgrade on Friday. “The election and enthronement of…
Immediately after his election, the new Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church urged everyone to pray to God for him. “Today, I call God’s blessing upon all our brothers and sisters—the children of our Church…
Serbian Orthodox Church elected its new Patriarch, Metropolitan Porfirije of Zagreb-Ljubljana, on Thursday, February 18th, 2021. After the Liturgy, the Electoral Assembly choose three names which were put it in Gospel. Archimandrite Matej picked the…