Greatmartyr and Healer Panteleimon

The Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon was born in the city of Nicomedia into the family of the illustrious pagan Eustorgius, and he was named Pantoleon.

His mother Saint Euboula (March 30) was a Christian. She wanted to raise her son in the Christian Faith, but she died when the future martyr was just a young child. His father sent Pantoleon to a pagan school, after which the young man studied medicine at Nicomedia under the renowned physician Euphrosynus. Pantoleon came to the attention of the emperor Maximian (284-305), who wished to appoint him as royal physician when he finished his schooling.

His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy heads celebrations commemorating the Pochayiv Icon of the Holy Theotokos

Thousands of pilgrims from different regions of Ukraine as well as from other countries prayed at the festal service.

On August 5, 2019, on the feast day commemorating the Pochayiv Icon of the Holy Theotokos , His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy of Kyiv and All Ukraine celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Holy Dormition Pochayiv Lavra. Reports  the UOC Department of Information and Education.

50th Anniversary of the Consecration, 1969-2019, St. George Church in San Diego, California

A jubilant celebration took place at St. George Serbian Orthodox Church, San Diego, CA, on Saturday and Sunday, August 3rd and 4th

A festive gathering of parishioners, supporters and friends with their Hierarch, visiting and local clergy in honor of the 50^th anniversary of the consecration of St. George Serbian Orthodox Church in San Diego, CA, took place on August 3^rd and 4^th of this year.

Sarov cathedral, blown up 1951 in closed soviet nuclear city, rebuilt, re-consecrated during feast of St. Seraphim

St. Seraphim of Sarov is one of the most beloved saints of not only the Russian Church, but the entire Orthodox Church.

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia traveled to the Sarov and Diveyevo Monasteries for the celebration of the feast of the uncovering of the great saint’s relics (August 1) this year, which was augmented by the spiritual joy of the consecration of a new place of worship.

Celebration of the Martyrs of Perebilovci and the Lower Herzegovina

Festal liturgical gathering in the church of the Resurrection of Christ at Perebilovci

The celebration of the Holy Martyrs of Prebilovci began on the eve of the feast-day with an evening worship service celebrated by Archimandrite Lazar from the Zitomislic monastery together with Revd. Branimir Borovcanin, parish priest of Blagaj, in the Prebilovci church.

The Serbian Patriarch received the Apostolic Nuncio

His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej received His Excellency Lucan Suriani, Apostolic Nuncio in the Republic of Serbia, at the Serbian Patriarchate Palace in Belgrade on 7 August 2019.