International

The new Metropolitan of Kananga, Theodosius, has been enthroned

On Sunday, February 24, the new Metropolitan Theodosius of Kananga was enthroned by Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria and All Africa, Romfea informs. The enthronement took place at St Andrews Cathedral in Kananga. The Patriarch of Alexandria spoke warmly about the enthroned Metropolitan of Kananga and gave him advice, promptings and instructions for the pastoral care…

Feb 26, 2019Gheorghe Anghel

Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria visited the city of Dolisie in Congo

On the morning of February 18, Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa, accompanied by Metropolitan Panteleimon of Brazzaville and Gabon and Bishop Theodoros of Babylonia, arrived in Dolisie, the third most populous city of the Republic of Congo-Brazzaville. After the ceremonial visit to Governorate, the Patriarch of Alexandria went to the Parish Community…

Feb 21, 2019Gheorghe Anghel

Metropolitan Nektarios: If we say today that we are Orthodox, we will have the finger pointed at us

Unfortunately, we are running everyday the risk of mutation of the Greek society in order to conform to the standards of the so-called post-modern world, said the Metropolitan Nektarios of Corfu, Paxos and the Diapontia Islands. Speaking at an event for the poet Giorgos Sarandaris, Metropolitan Nektarios said that in order to mutate the Greek…

Feb 20, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

Dobre Dobrev 1st death anniversary: Bulgarian priest remembers Sofia’s saintly beggar

Marking Dobre Dobrev’s 1st death anniversary, Fr Kiril Sinev, a Bulgarian priest who serves in Ruse, told the Basilica News Agency how people remember the saintly grandfather who devoted himself to raising money for Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church. Father Kiril Sinev said that even the Elder’s name Dobre (which derives from the Bulgarian word dobar, good)…

Feb 19, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Ecumenical Patriarchate establishes Synaxis of All Military Saints

During its working session on February 14, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate established a new feast dedicated to all the Orthodox Saints who were soldiers and who died as martyrs for Christ. The Synaxis of All Military Saints will be celebrated every year on July 8 by the Church of Constantinople. The proposal…

Feb 18, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Bulgarian Orthodox Church deletes opinion on National Strategy for the Child from website

A controversial opinion purported to be from the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod urging a ban on terminations of pregnancy, for religion to be a compulsory subject in schools, no sex education, and opposing the full ban on corporal punishment in schools, has been deleted from the church’s official website, Sofia Globe reports. The opinion, posted…

Feb 14, 2019Iulian Dumitraşcu

Church of Greece declares 2020 the Commemorative Year of St Nectarios of Aegina

During its working session on Feb. 7, the Permanent Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church declared 2020 as Commemorative Year of Saint Nectarios of Aegina, marking the 100th anniversary of his blessed repose in the Lord. The hierarchs announced that the annual Diptycha volume of the Church of Greece for 2020, containing details regarding…

Feb 12, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Bulgarian Orthodox Church calls for abortion ban, compulsory religion in schools, no sex education

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, has called for a complete rewrite of the government’s National Strategy for the Child 2019-2030, urging a ban on terminations of pregnancy, for religion to be a compulsory subject in schools, no sex education, The Sofia Globe reports. The strategy, which succeeds the 2008/2018 version, was…

Feb 10, 2019Iulian Dumitraşcu

Patriarch Bartholomew, Greek PM in joint call for reopening of Halki seminary

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday expressed their shared hope that the Halki Orthodox seminary, which was shut down by Turkish authorities in 1971, will soon reopen. Tsipras thanked Ecumenical Vartholomeos for the tour of the school (high school and seminary) where he went from the island of Imvros at…

Feb 10, 2019Iulian Dumitraşcu

Cyprus: Holy Synod discusses ecclesiastical issue of Ukraine

The ecclesiastical issue of Ukraine was on the agenda of the Holy Synod of the Church of Cyprus, Romfea News reports. At today’s meeting of the Holy Synod, under the supervision of the Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus, there was an exchange of views on the ecclesiastical issue of Ukraine. It was decided to continue the…

Feb 7, 2019Gheorghe Anghel

Metropolitan Nifon attends festivities dedicated to Patriarch Kirill’s 10th enthronement anniversary

His Eminence Hon Metropolitan Nifon, Archbishop of Targoviste and patriarchal exarch, attended the festivities held in Moscow to mark Patriarch Kirill’s 10th enthronement anniversary, on Jan. 30 – Feb. 2, 2019. Taking part in the event were delegations of the local Orthodox Churches of Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Poland and the Czech…

Feb 5, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu