Orthodox Churches

PHOTO: Celebration of the jubilee in Zica Monastery

We recommed to visitors of the official Internet webpage of the Serbian Orthodox Church a photo gallery of deacon Dragan Tanasijevic:

The celebration of the jubilee in Zica Monastery through the lens of deacon Dragan Tanasijevic

55th anniversary of return of relics of St. Andrew celebrated in Patras

A glorious celebration was held in Patras, Greece on Sunday, honoring the 55th anniversary of the return of the relics of the first-called Apostle St. Andrew to the city after more than 500 years.

Archdiocese of Western Europe to elect two vicar bishops after being blocked by Constantinople for many years

The Archdiocese of Russian Churches in Western Europe, which largely voted to follow its hierarch, His Eminence Archbishop John of Dubna, into the Moscow Patriarchate recently, is already experiencing the fruits of this new life.

Yesterday, Abp. John, who was unceremoniously released from the Patriarchate of Constantinople without warning and soon thereafter received by the Russian Church, published an address to his flock, announcing the upcoming Archbishop’s Council and General Assembly of the Archdiocese and the election of two vicar bishops.

Metropolitan Onuphry leads celebration of 25th anniversary of canonization of St. Kuksha of Odessa

St. Kuksha of Odessa is a beloved 20th-century saint of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church who labored in asceticism on the Holy Mountain, in the Holy Land, in the Kiev Caves Lavra, the Pochaev Lavra, and elsewhere in Ukraine. He was canonized by the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Church in 1995.

Belarusian Exarchate celebrates 30th anniversary with open-air Liturgy

The 30th anniversary of the Belarusian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church was celebrated with a grand open-air Liturgy in Minsk on Sunday, September 29. The Exarchate was created at the 1989 session of the Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the Patriarchate in Russia.

Serbian Patriarch Irinej on social engagement of the Church

In his interview given to the leading Belgrade newspaper “Politika” of the 29^th September 2019 His Holiness expressed his opinion on the issue of social engagement of the Serbian Church:

Is the Serbian Church sufficiently engaged in social issues and efforts to give concrete solutions or responses to the issues of the modern world, starting from: emigration of young people, low birth rates, rise in domestic and family violence and any other type of violence,  up to the issues which are posed as global challenges: misuse of modern technologies and invasion of privacy, experiments with biotechnologies, environmental devastation.

There is the issue of wider social engagement of the Serbian Church, that is – the issue of establishing and maintaining balance between prayer and social activities.  The Church works very actively in solving some of the problems of modern society. For example, in my Diocese, in Belgrade as megalopolis, the Church provides daily foodfor thousands of the needy ones through the Faith Charity Stewardship organisation, its soup kitchen.