Edessa, Greece, April 1, 2025 Photo: orthodoxianewsagency.gr St. Kallinikos of Edessa, a 20th-century Holy Hierarch of the Church of Greece who was canonized by the Patriarchate of Constantinople in New saint: Metropolitan Kallinikos of Edessa (1918-1984) canonized by ConstantinopleThe bells of the Holy Metropolis of Edessa and Pella of the Greek Orthodox Church rung…
Doha, Qatar, April 2, 2025 Photo: Antiochian Patriarchate An historic event took place on Friday, March 28, as the primate of the Antiochian Patriarchate concelebrated with hierarchs of the Jerusalem Patriarchate for the first time since communion was restored between the ancient Churches after nearly a decade in the Antiochian Patriarchate restores communion with…
“The Standing of St. Mary of Egypt” (Thursday of the Great Canon “>Thursday of the Great Canon in the Typikon) is the name of Thursday’s Matins service of the Fifth Week of Great Lent (typically served, however, on Wednesday evening). During this Matins service, the The Great Canon of Repentance by St. Andrew, Bishop…
Mt. Athos, April 1, 2025 Photo: gohalkidiki.com The holy monasteries of Mt. Athos have joined the chorus of those condemning the blasphemous display at the Greek National Gallery in Athens. An exhibition entitled The Allure of the Bizarre, which features several blasphemous works opened on January 22 and is set to run through September…
New York, April 1, 2025 Though defrocked by ROCOR, Belya still acts as a priest within GOARCH’s Slavic Vicariate. Photo: Slavonic.org U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian has dismissed a lawsuit brought by defrocked archimandrite Alexander Belya against senior clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. The case, which dates back to 2019,…
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (April 1, 1809–February 21, 1852). Artist V. Savenkov. Oil on canvas. Reproduction/RIA “Novosti” Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was published on December 31, 1846. The author of this truly Christian book was a deeply religious man, a religious thinker and a publicist who authored several prayers….
Jerusalem, April 1, 2025 Photo: spc.rs His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia arrived in the Holy Land yesterday morning for a pilgrimage to the many holy sites there. The Serbian primate and his entourage were hosted at the Jerusalem Patriarch by His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos and other local hierarchs, reports the Serbian Orthodox Church….
April 1 is the feast-day of the holy Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria (†283) and with them Martyrs Claudius the Tribune, his wife Hilaria, their sons Jason and Maurus, Diodorus the Presbyter and Marianus the Deacon. The Martyrdom of Sts. Chrysanthus and Daria. Miniature from the Menologion of Basil II, Late tenth—early eleventh centuries St….
Kiev, March 28, 2025 pravlife.org A state commission to “inspect” the incorrupt relics of the Kiev Caves Lavra arrived at the monastery this morning. The group, consisting of employees of the Ministry of Culture, the state-operated Kiev Caves Museum-Preserve, and various specialists, took an angle grinder to the locks on the buildings leading to…
Tirana, March 31, 2025 Photo: Radio Ngjalla The Albanian Orthodox Church celebrated the enthronement of its new primate on Saturday, March 29, at the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Tirana. His Eminence John of Korçë was Albanian Synod elects new primate to succeed Archbishop AnastasiosBy unanimous vote, the lot fell to Met. John,…
