On March 14 the Russian Orthodox Church honors the memory (the repose) of Nun Martyr Eudokia (Eudoxia) of Heliopolis, head of a community of women ascetics.1 St. Eudokia of Heliopolis St. Eudokia was born in the Phoenician city of Heliopolis (now Baalbek in Lebanon). She was a Samaritan by birth and was famous for…
Greece, March 14, 2025 Photo: Romfea Two retired hierarchs of the Greek Orthodox Church reposed in the Lord yesterday, March 13. Metropolitan Anthimos, who led the Metropolis of Thessaloniki for nearly two decades until his resignation in Long-time bishop of Thessaloniki resignsMetropolitan Anthimos (Roussas), who has led the Metropolis of Thessaloniki for nearly two…
Tirana, March 14, 2025 Photo: orthodoxalbania.org The next primate of the Albanian Orthodox Church is set to be elected this coming Sunday, March 16. The Chief Secretariat of the Holy Synod announced yesterday: The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania announces that the election of the new Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and…
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko)Indifference to faith and spiritual life has always been linked to the decline of life itself—both for an individual and an entire nation. Source: Orthodox Christianity
Craiova, Romania, March 14, 2025 Photo: basilica.ro An Orthodox parish in southeast Romania organized a fundraiser for children with cancer this year. The church in Brândușa, Craiova, together with the Vasiliada Assocaition of the Archdiocese of Craiova, as well as local schools and other institutions, managed to raise $3,255 (3,000 euros), which was used…
Pervouralsk, Sverdlovsk Province, Russia, March 14, 2025 Photo: diaconia.ru The Russian Orthodox Church opened and consecrated a new center for rehabilitating troubled teenagers yesterday. The opening ceremony for the St. Moses the Ethiopian Center for Social Adaption of Adolescents in Pervouralsk, Sverdlovsk Province, was led by His Eminence Metropolitan Evgeny of Ekaterinburg, reports the…
Cherkasy, Cherkasy Province, Ukraine, March 14, 2025 Photo: Cherkasy Diocese Less than 10% of clerics of the persecuted Cherkasy Diocese of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church have left for the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine.” That is, only 15 out of 200 clerics have left, while 30 priests have been ordained recently, His Eminence…
Aorachuodo, Kenya, March 7, 2025 Photo: exarchate-africa.ru A great spiritual event took place at a Kenyan village church late last month. Locals have been turning to holy Orthodoxy all across Africa for years now, and mass Baptisms have become a common occurrence. One of the latest occurred at the Church of the Holy Apostle…
This present homily focuses on the Sacrament of Confession. St. Philaret of ChernigovPhilaret of Chernigov, St. “>St. Philaret of Chernigov was a Holy Hierarch of the nineteenth century, at a time when the laity typically didn’t commune at the Presanctified Liturgies in the The First Week of Great Lent“>first week of Lent, but rather spent…
On February 23/March 8, the Russian Orthodox Church honors the memory of the holy Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna. Callista and little St. Polycarp. Fresco at the Church of St. Polycarp (Izmir, Turkey) St. Polycarp was born around the year 80 A.D. and lived in the city of Smyrna in Asia Minor (now the…
