Note that the name of Patriarch John of Antioch is missing, owing to this Church’s withdrawal from the Synaxis owing to the refusal of Jerusalem, which is establishing its own archbishopric in…
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by Paul Dakiki The release took place around midnight, hours after the news first broke. The Lebanese and Qatari security chiefs Abbas Ibrahim and Ghanim al- Kubaisi were key mediators. The nuns…
A wonderworking Athonite icon of the Theotokos, with the epithet “Joy and Consolation”, which was considered lost, was found in a monastery in the region of Ryazan and will be returned to…
The delegation of the Antiochian Patriarchate has participated in the Synaxis of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches and its preparatory meetings held at the Headquarters of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople…
Analysis/comment via Reuters and the Chicago Tribune. The other view is that Patriarch Kirill is not an arm of the Russian state, still less Putin’s regime, but a pre-eminent influential body in national…
By Phil Lawler (bio – articles ) | March 06, 2014 5:47 PM Pay close attention to the latest news about the effort to convene a meeting of all the patriarchs of…
His All Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew and the other First Hierarchs of the Autocephalous Orthodox Churches at the Pre-Synodal Assembly at the Phanar this week Eastern Orthodox Church- Ecumenical Patriarchate From Prakash Varghese…
On March 6, 2014, Primates and representatives of Local Orthodox Churches met for their first day at the Cathedral of St. George at Fanar, the residence of the Patriarch of Constantinople in…
(Phanar, March 6, 2014) Your Beatitudes and most venerable Brothers in Christ, First-Hierarchs of the Most Holy Orthodox Churches, and honorable members of your entourages, Welcome to the courtyard of our Church,…
March 7, 2014 By Tim Kelleher “What a difference a day makes.” That was certainly the case when, in roughly twenty-four hours, Kiev went from flashpoint for civil war to a field…