Metropolitanate Day in Australia and New Zealand

Metropolitan Hilarion in Metropolitanate Zagreb-Ljubljana

On 27 August 2013, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and at the invitation of Metropolitan Ioann of Zagreb and Ljubljana, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, arrived in Croatia for a two-day visit.

Stamatis Skliris: The Dynamic Earth

Descent of The Dormition of Theotokos Icon to Gethsemane

On Monday the 12^th/25^th of August 2013, a procession took place intended for the descent of the icon of Theotokos from the Dependency of Gethsemane opposite the All-holy Church of the Resurrection, to the Church of the Dormition of Theotokos in Gethsemane, wherein lies the Tomb of the Virgin Mary.

Audiences at the Serbian Patriarchate - 27 August 2013

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, received Mayor of Vranje Mr. Zoran Antic and Director of regional Radio-Television of Vranje Mr. Zoran Velickovic at the Serbian Patriarchate on 27 August. 

Jubilee Celebration of the Western American Diocese: Freedom to Pursue the Faith

On August 30 through September 1, 2013, the Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America will hold its annual Diocesan Days gathering. This year Diocesan Days will mark several momentous anniversaries: 50 years of the founding of the Diocese, 150 years of the birth of Archimandrite Sebastian Dabovich, Holy Apostle to the Americas, and 1700 years of the Edict of Milan.