Positive tendencies in church-state relations in Moldova are noted in the report of His Holiness the Patriarch at the Bishops’ Council
30. November 2017 - 16:49
It is gratifying to see positive tendencies in cooperation between the church and the state in the Republic of Moldova,” His Holiness Patriarch Kirill said in his report at the Bishops’ Council-2017. For instance, President Igor Dodon’s attention to the ministry of the primate, bishops and clerics of the Orthodox Church of Moldova.
His Holiness specifies pressing problems of the Orthodox Church in Tajikistan
30. November 2017 - 16:48
“Relations between the Church and the state in Tajikistan are characterized by stability, mutual respect and a smooth-running cooperation in solving many important problems,” His Holiness Patriarch Kirill noted in his report at the Bishops’ Council-2017. “The state authorities on the territory of the Diocese of Dushanbe many time helped with the construction of church buildings, with charity actions, with the implementation of cultural and educational programmes, and other important initiatives,” the Primate of the Russian Church noted.
Russian Council of Bishops opens with moleben before relics of St. Tikhon, transferred to Christ the Savior for the event
30. November 2017 - 16:47
The Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church began their work today in the Hall of Church Councils in Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral. The council’s program includes centenary celebrations of the restoration of the patriarchate to the Russian Church and the enthronement of St. Tikhon as the first new patriarch, which occurred on December 4, 1917 in the Kremlin’s Dormition Cathedral.
In this vein, the hierarchs’ work began with prayer before the relics of the great St. Tikhon of Moscow which were transferred from Donskoy Monastery to Christ the Savior Cathedral specifically for the council, reports patriarchia.ru.
Before the start of the morning’s Divine Liturgy, a new reliquary for the honorable relics of the Holy Hierarch Tikhon, made especially for the centenary celebrations, was placed in the center of Christ the Savior Cathedral. The reliquary had previously been blessed by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill at Donsky Monastery on November 18, the centenary of St. Tikhon’s election as patriarch.
Following the Divine Liturgy, the meeting of the honorable relics of St. Tikhon, transferred from Moscow’s Donskoy Monastery, was celebrated, his coffin being borne by several bishops and placed into the new reliquary.
Ecumenical Patriarch celebrates the Divine Liturgy in Istanbul
29. November 2017 - 15:48
On Tuesday, November 21, 2017, His All-Holiness concelebrated the Divine Liturgy on the feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple. In addition to the faithful flock of pilgrims in attendance at the Community of Stavrodromion’s Cathedral, were numerous Hierarchs of the Ecumenical Throne, His Excellency Evangelos Sekeris, Consul General of the Hellenic Republic to Istanbul, as well as teachers and students from the Zappeion and Zografeion High Schools in the City.
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk leads celebrations on patronal feast of the Moscow Representation of the Church of Jerusalem
29. November 2017 - 15:46
On 27 November 2017, commemoration day of the Holy Apostle Philip, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Representation of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem in Moscow – the Church of the Holy Resurrection in Filippovsky side-street. Since one of the church’s side-altars was consecrated in the name of the Holy Apostle Philip, its patronal feast is celebrated on this day.
