Chicago, February 14, 2025 Photo: newgracanica.org The feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs—Sts. Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom—was a double celebration this year for His Eminence Metropolitan Longin and the faithful of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of New Gračanica and Midwestern America. This year’s feast on Wednesday, February 12, marked…
North Macedonia, February 14, 2025 Met. Mark celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the St. Clement of Ohrid Cathedral in Skopje. Photo: mpc-spe.mk His Eminence Metropolitan Mark of Berlin and Germany, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia’s eldest hierarch, is currently leading a pilgrimage to the holy sites of the Macedonian Orthodox Church-Ohrid Archbishopric….
Tartu County, Estonia, February 14, 2025 St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Tallinn. Photo: visitestonia.com The Estonian Orthodox Church has changed its name twice in the last several months in response to pressure from the government, which is trying to force it to separate itself from the Moscow Patriarchate. The Estonian Church is an autonomous…
Cherkasy, Cherkasy Province, Ukraine, February 14, 2025 Photo: cherkasy.church.ua A well-known hierarch of the Greek Orthodox Church made a strong show of support this week for the persecuted canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, sending a precious relic for the consolation of the faithful. On February 12, the feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs, the shoe…
Monasticism is blessedness a man can ever afford on earth,you can’t have anything more blessed than this…Ultimate bliss is in heaven,but its lower stage is on earth. St. Barsonophius of Optina A well-known ascetic Schema-Abbess Sophia (born Sophia Evgenievna Grineva) was the founder of the convent dedicated to the “Joy and Consolation” Icon of the…
Mtskheta, Georgia, February 14, 2025 Photo: agenda.ge One of the crown jewels of the Georgian Orthodox Church was vandalized this week. The incident occurred at the 6th-century Jvari Monastery, located near the ancient capital of Mtskheta. Its Church of the Holy Cross is a rare case of an early medieval Georgian church that has…
Hieromartyr Nikolai was born on September 8, 1863, in the village of Krasnaya Slobodka, Trubchevsky County, Orel Province, into the family of a psalmist, Dmitry Mezentsev. Nikolai lost his parents at an early age—his mother died when he was five years old, and his father when he was twelve. As a total orphan born into…
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, February 13, 2025 Photo: orthodoxianewsagency.gr The local Greek Orthodox faithful participated in the annual Walk for Life in Adelaide, South Australia, again this year. The 6th annual Walk was held on Saturday, February 8, to raise awareness for the protection of unborn children. This year’s theme was “Real Men Protect…
Archpriest Peter GuryanovGuryanov, Peter, Archpriest “>Archpriest Peter Guryanov is the rector of the Church of the Queen of All Icon of the Mother of God in Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk Province, Russia. He also serves as head of the Information and Publishing Department of the Melekess Diocese, Chairman of the Diocesan Commission on Family, Protection of Motherhood…
Nairobi, Kenya, February 13, 2025 The future Met. Makarios of Nairobi (left) and the future Pat. Kirill of Moscow (right). Photo: Romfea “It is time to … restore the spirit of brotherhood that once united us,” says Metropolitan Makarios of Nairobi of the Patriarchate of Alexandria in a new statement concerning his personal history…
