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From Wednesday, April 29, through Tuesday, May 5, the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia met in the Convent of the Venerable New-Martyr Grand Duchess […]
The Diocese of Germany of ROCOR marked the centenary of its establishment with a solemn Divine Liturgy. On Friday, May 1, the divine service in Holy New Martyrs & Confessors […]
On April 26, the 3rd Sunday of Pascha, dedicated to the Holy Myrrh-bearing Women, the parish of the same name in Brooklyn, NY prayerfully celebrated its patronal feast day. Celebrating […]
On Wednesday, April 29, the eminent members of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Church Abroad, led by Metropolitan Nicholas of Eastern America & New York, First Hierarch of […]
On April 26, the 3rd Sunday of Pascha, dedicated to the Holy Myrrh-bearing Women, with the blessing of Metropolitan Nicholas of Eastern America & New York, His Eminence, Metropolitan Jonah […]
On April 26, the 3rd Sunday of Pascha, that of the Myrrh-bearing Women, His Grace, Bishop Jerome (Shaw), paid an archpastoral visit to Holy Virgin Protection Church in Nyack, NY, […]
On Tuesday, April 21 – the day of commemoration of the departed, called Radonitsa, or the ‘Day of Rejoicing’ – His Eminence Nicholas, Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York, […]
The condition of the Primate of the Russian Church is satisfactory. The post His Holiness Patriarch Kirill Contracted the Coronavirus appeared first on A Russian Orthodox Church Website. […]
The 4th Plenary Session of the Commission for Dialogue between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Coptic Church took place from September 19 to 24, in Moscow. The Moscow Patriarchate membership […]
To the clergy, monastics, and faithful of the Orthodox Church in America, As Hurricane Ian approaches Florida and as we see the extensive damage to the Atlantic Provinces from Hurricane […]
The Patriarch noted that fraternal peoples should not be separated by an "impenetrable wall of hatred." The post Patriarch Kirill: The Church Prays for the Fraternal Strife to End as […]
At the beginning of the new academic year, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel sent a message to all students, urging them to combine study with prayer. The patriarchal message focuses on […]
On Tuesday, 13 September, 2022, the members of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, led by His Eminence Metropolitan Mark of Berlin and Germany, […]
His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije once again donated blood for the needs of hospitals. The post Voluntary Blood Donation Takes Place in Churches in Serbia appeared first on A Russian Orthodox […]

Ukrainian authorities continue to wage war on Ukrainian citizens who belong to the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. […]

“This is both a great honor and a heavy cross to bear,” His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Shio III of Georgia said yesterday after being elected to the primatial throne, receiving 22 […]

Tensions began when a Greek Metropolitan insisted on conducting the Liturgy in Greek. Bulgarian worshippers objected, arguing that services in a Bulgarian church should be held in Bulgarian. […]

Notes from a Serbian enclaveDejan BaljosevicH.K. saw me: our eyes met. I saw sinister hatred in his glare and realized that I could expect nothing good. […]

The Serbian Orthodox Church and the Serbian government signed an agreement last week to jointly build an Orthodox university in Belgrade. […]







