Orthodox Churches

Feast of the Holy Spirit

On Monday, June 4, 2012, His All-Holiness presided over the Divine Liturgy for the Feast of Holy Spirit at the Holy Trinity Church of Stavrodromion. Among those in attendance were the Consul General of Greece, the Hon. Nicholas Matthioudakis and his wife, the Hon. Katerina Varvarigos, Consul of Greece in Adrianople, and pilgrims from Greece.

Archpriest Georges Florovsky’s book “Christianity and Culture” is published in the Chinese Language

Archpriest Georges Florovsky’s book “Christianity and Culture” has been published for the first time in the Chinese language. This was reported by Archpriest Dionisy Pozdnyaev, the priest-in-charge of the community of the Chief Apostles, Saints Peter and Paul, in Hong Kong.

The publication was realized by the Hong Kong Institute of Sino-Christian Studies, with support of the Orthodox Brotherhood of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Hong Kong and the Orthodox Fellowship of All Saints of China (United States).

Grodno Orthodox Eparchy wins church music festival in Hajnowka

The choir of the Grodno Orthodox Eparchy got the top prize of the 31st International Festival of Orthodox Church Music in Hajnowka (Poland), BelTA learnt from Consul General of Belarus in Bialystok Alexander Berebenya.

In his words, apart from this award, the male choir of the State Song and Dance Ensemble of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus received a special prize.

Conference of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society takes place in Moscow

On 4 June 2012, the second conference of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (IOPS) timed to its 130th anniversary took place at the conference hall of the Russian Camber of Accounts.

Patriarch Kirill begins his visit to Kazakhstan

On May 29, 2012, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia began his visit to Kazakhstan.

The delegation accompanying the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church includes Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, Bishop Sergiy of Solnechnogorsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s administrative secretariat, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, head of the synodal department for church-society relations, and Mr. V. Legoida, head of the synodal information department.

Slava of Belgrade's church of St. Jovan Vladimir

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch served today, on the occasion of church slava , Divine Liturgy in the church of St. Jovan Vladimir in Belgrade's suburb of Medakovic.