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25.08.2020 18:33
Bishop Veniamin of Borisov and Maryina Horka appointed Patriarchal Exarch for All Belarus
During its meeting on August 25, 2020 chaired by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church complied with a petition of Metropolitan Pavel of Minsk and Zaslavsk to relieve him of this duty as Patriarchal Exarch for All Belarus.
25.08.2020 18:00
Message of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to the episcopate, clergy, monastics and laity on the invasion of a harmful infection this year
Praising Merciful God Who causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous (Mt. 5:45), the Church is ardently praying for the final deliverance of people from the harmful infection that has invaded us this year.
25.08.2020 12:27
Patriarch Kirill chairs a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church
On August 25, 2020, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has met for its regular session at St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow. It is chaired by His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
24.08.2020 18:37
Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem receives in audience Mother Superior Yekaterina of Gorny Convent
During the meeting, which took place at the Lesser Throne Hall, the head of the mission asked Patriarch Theophilos to take the new mother superior of the Russian convent in the Holy Land under his patronage with love and paternal care.
24.08.2020 14:56
Chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church meets with a delegation of the Patriarchate of Antioch
On August 20, 2020, the chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Anthony of Borispol and Brovary met with Metropolitan Basil of Accra, Orthodox Church of Antioch, who was accompanied by Archimandrite Alexis (Fadi). According to the Union of Orthodox Journalists, the archpastor notified of this in his page on…
23.08.2020 12:21
Metropolitan Hilarion: We cannot remain indifferent to such sad facts
Metropolitan Hilarion gave a comment to RIA Novosti news agency about the decision taken by the Turkish authorities on 20th August 2020 to return the mosque status to one more former Orthodox church – the Church of the Saviour in Chora (Kariye Mosque).
17.08.2020 21:00
Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church meets for its regular session
On August 17, 2020, after the solemn Divine Liturgy celebrated at the Kiev Laura of the Dormition on the occasion of the 6th anniversary of the enthronement of His Beatitude Onufriy, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine, the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church met under the chairmanship of…
16.08.2020 20:40
Deputy Head of Russian Emergencies Ministry visits Beirut Representation of the Russian Orthodox Church
On August 15, 2020, the first deputy head of the Russian Federation Ministry for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief, Col-Gen. A. Chupriyan and an Emercom delegation, during their stay in the Lebanese capital city affected by a destructive explosion, visited the church of St. John the Baptist – the…
16.08.2020 18:39
Metropolitan Hilarion: God is willing to give everyone a wonderful gift of faith, but people must be willing to accept it
On 16th August 2020, 10th Sunday after Pentecost, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of the “Joy of All Who Sorrow” Icon of the Mother of God in Bolshaya Ordynka Street, Moscow.
12.08.2020 17:27
On the feast of the Nativity of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Russian-speaking faithful living in Turkey prayed at the Liturgy in Demre
On August 11, 2020, the feast of the Nativity of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, in the city of Demre (Myra of Lycia, Antalya Province, Turkey) the Divine Liturgy was celebrated by Father George Sergeyev in charge of the pastoral care of the Russian-speaking faithful in the Republic of Turkey.