New Bishop of Lungro for Italo-Albanians

Archimandrite Donato Oliverio (56) as the new Eparchial Bishop of Lungro for Italo-Albanians in Continental Italy. Bishop-elect Donato was educated at Cosenza, Grottaferrata, and Rome. He is an alumnus of the Pontifical…

Society of St Maximus, Baltimore – a new Chapter of SSJC

In the Baltimore area, there started in 1995 an ecumenical group, The Society of Saint Maximus the Confessor. The name was suggested by a co-founding then Orthodox priest, Father Chrysostom Frank, since…

Canadian Parliament honours the memory of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky

In the presence (left to right at the ovation) of Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyivan Patriarchate), Major-Archbishop of Kyiv and all Ukraine, Patriarch Sviatoslav of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church,…

Christos anesti! Alethos anesti!

CHRIST IS RISEN! – INDEED HE IS RISEN! A Happy and Blessed Easter! Arabic: Alamsih qam! Haqqan qam! Syriac: Mshiho qom men beth mithe! Greek: Christos anesti! Alethos anesti! XPICTOC ANECTH! Hebrew:…

100 thousand dollars for the Syrian people, from Pope Benedict

From Patriarch Gregorios III Laham, of Antioch and all the East, Damascus, 31 March 2012: Patriarch Gregorios III, as President of the Assembly of the Catholic Hierarchy in Syria, together with Syrian…