His Beatitude Hieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece celebrates on 7 February 2018 a decade since his election as head of the Greek Orthodox Church. His Beatitude Hieronymos II born Ioannis Liapis in…
By a vote of 11 to two on February 4, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, elected Bishop Daniil as the new Metropolitan of Vidin, informs sofiaglobe.com. Daniil, who since 2010 has…
A recently-discovered chapel that doubled as a watchtower at the Sümela Monastery in Turkey’s northeast Trabzon province has opened to visitors, providing new insight into the 1,600-year history of the ancient site. The structure, termed the…
During the visit of Georgian DefMin Levan Izoria at St Anthimos Monastery in Bucharest on Wednesday, Bishop Varlaam of Ploiesti stressed the importance of the monastic settlement founded by Saint Anthimos the Iberian who ‘with…
Since 1994, the Finnish Orthodox Church under the Ecumenical Patriarchate has celebrated the achievements of the mothers among its flock. Mothers who have served the work of the Church in various ways, by educating, guiding,…
His Beatitude Patriarch Kirill celebrates on 1 February 2018 his 9th enthronement anniversary as Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church. His Beatitude Kirill (secular name Vladimir M. Gundyaev) was born on 20 November 1946, in Leningrad.…
It is announced that the historic Holy Monastery of St. John the Baptist in the Bethabara area, east of Jericho, on the west bank of the river Jordan will be reopened as an Orthodox Shrine…
During a ceremony led by His Beatitude Archbishop Hieronymos of Athens Wednesday, Jan. 17, Saint George of Ioannina also known as St George of Fustanella was proclaimed Protector Saint of the ceremonial infantry unit that…
His Eminence Andrei, Metropolitan of Cluj, Maramures and Salaj, celebrated the Sunday Divine Liturgy at the katholikon of the Athonite Vatopedi Monastery, during which he spoke about our earthly existence stressing that ‘our whole life…
His Beatitude Rastislav, the Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and Slovakia, celebrates on 25 January 2018 his 40th Birthday. Rastislav or Rostislav, also known as St. Rastislav, was the second known…