Church of Albania: All services except of Sunday Divine Liturgies are suspended
13. March 2020 - 12:51
Additional measures against the spread of the coronavirus were announced today by the Holy Synod of the Church of Albania.
The Albanian Church suspends all daily services except Sunday Divine Liturgies until early April, while encouraging believers to pray at home or on their own in the churches that will remain open during the day for that reason.
Pastoral activities and training programs of Metropolis of Dimitrias are suspended
12. March 2020 - 14:31
All pastoral activities and training programs of Metropolis of Dimitrias, except operational ones, are suspended following the decision by Metropolitan Ignatios of Dimitrias for reasons of public health protection.
The rationale for the decision and the precise measures are described in an urgent encyclical, which was sent to the priests of the Metropolis of Dimitriados and Almyros.
Missionary visit of Metropolis of Zambia to the Zambezi River
12. March 2020 - 14:30
With the blessing of Metropolitan Ioannis of Zambia, the Holy Metropolis of Zambia paid a missionary visit to Chirundu (Vlachakis Family region).Catechesis was the purpose of the visit.
Homily for the Sunday of Orthodoxy - March 8, 2020
10. March 2020 - 14:28
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros
Homily for the Sunday of Orthodoxy
March 8, 2020
Holy Trinity Archdiocesan Cathedral
New York, New York
Your Eminences and Graces,
Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Sunday of Orthodoxy in the Metropolis of Belgium
10. March 2020 - 14:19
Sunday of Orthodoxy was celebrated with splendor at the Holy Metropolis of Belgium. Metropolitan Athenagoras of Belgium and Exarch of the Netherlands and Luxembourg presided over the inter-Orthodox concelebration, which took place at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Archangels Michael and Gabriel in Brussels, with concelebrants Metropolitan Athanasios of Achaia, Director of the Representative Office of the Church of Greece to the European Union, Bishop Job of Telmessos, Permanent Representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the World Council of Churches, Bishop Dositheus from the Patriarchate of Georgia in Belgium and Bishop Ioakim of Apollonias.
