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Monday, May 31, 2010

His Holiness met the Archbishop of Damascus and Delegates

by OCP May 31, 2010 News

Syrian Orthodox Church MA`ARAT SAYYIDNAYA, DAMASCUS: Patriarch H.H Ignatius Zakka Iwas Ist met the delegates from the Archdiocese of Damascus. The delegation includes Bishop Luke Khoury, Bishop Ghattas Hazim and Bishop Joseph Absi in the presence of Mor Malki Murad (Bishop of Jerusalem), Mor Mathias Nayis (Patriarchal Assistant), Mor Daniel …

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POPE IN CYPRUS: ARCHBISHOP OPPONENTS TO VISIT OUT OF SYNOD

by OCP May 31, 2010 News

(ANSAmed) – NICOSIA – Archbishop Chrisostomos II, Primate of the powerful Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus, has had enough of those expressing their displeasure at the Pope’s visit to the island and in the manner to which he is accustomed has laid down the law. If they do not change their tune, he will expel [...]

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Session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church

by OCP May 31, 2010 News

31/5/2010 Translated Using Google Translate Service In St. Petersburg, under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Cyril opened the session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church On May 31, 2010 in a historic building of the Holy Synod in St. Petersburg under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All [...]

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His Beatitude Volodymyr met with head of the Pontifical Council for Culture Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi

by OCP May 31, 2010 News

Ukrainian Orthodox Church On May 27 His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Ukraine received at his metropolitan’s residence at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra the chair of the Pontifical Council for Culture Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, who was staying in Ukraine on those days. Taking part in the meeting also were Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine …

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His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr met with newly-appointed heads of State Department for Execution of Sentences

by OCP May 31, 2010 News

Ukrainian Orthodox Church On May 26, at the residence of the UOC Primate His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr met with the newly appointed administration of the State Department for execution of Penalties led by its chairman Alexander Lisitskov. Attending the meeting also was Secretary for the UOC Primate, His Grace Alexander, Bishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy, …

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Metropolitan Volodymyr Greeted Kyivites on the Day of Kyiv

by OCP May 31, 2010 News

Ukrainian Orthodox Church Honorable Kyivites! Dear brothers and sisters! Residents of our State’s capital and parishioners of the cathedral city of our Church! Every day we see these Kyivan hills upon which the grace of God has shone. And the great city has rosen. And the Lord has built many churches. That’s what the Holy [...]

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Armenia Marks Republic Day

by OCP May 31, 2010 News

28.05.2010 Ruzanna Stepanian Armenians marked on Friday the 92nd anniversary of the establishment of their first short-lived independent republic that emerged from the ashes of the Russian Empire at the end of World War I. The main ceremonies marking the public holiday in Armenia again took place in Sardarapat, a village 40 kilometers west of [...]

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Keshgegian Named Mother of the Year

by OCP May 31, 2010 News

By: Florence Avakian NEW YORK—The annual Mother’s Day luncheon sponsored by the Prelacy Ladies Guild is always an event not to be missed. On Mon., May 10, close to 170 attended this much-awaited and festive event at the elegant Palace Hotel, located in midtown Manhattan. His Eminence Archbishop Oshagan Choloyan, Prelate of the Eastern Prelacy [...]

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Patriarch Bartholomew is willing to advance convening of the All-Orthodox Council

by OCP May 31, 2010 News

Strelna, May 31, Interfax – Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople thinks it necessary to advance convening of the All-Orthodox Council with the participation of all local Orthodox Churches. “We decided to facilitate the process of convening the holy and great Council of all Orthodox Churches,” Patriarch Bartholomew said in an interview to Vesti 24 TV which [...]

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Egypt rules Copts can Remarry, Church Objects

by OCP May 31, 2010 News

30/5/2010 CAIRO – An Egyptian court has ruled that two Coptic men have the right to remarry, contradicting the church’s position and undermining its efforts to maintain its authority over the Christian community in Muslim-majority Egypt. Saturday’s administrative court decision was prompted by a rare intervention by Pope Shenouda, leader of Egypt’s Copts, who launched [...]

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Serbian Church finds a home in the Triad

by OCP May 31, 2010 News

By Laura Graff | Journal Reporter 05/31/2010 Radovan Banovic, a Serbian Orthodox Christian, fled Bosnia in 1998, traveling first to Austria, where he sought help at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna. There, a consul asked where he would like to go. “I said, ‘Anywhere,’” Banovic said yesterday. “‘Anywhere there’s no war.’ And they said, ‘How [...]

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Patriarch Bartholomew urged Ukrainian dissenters to join the Orthodox Church

by OCP May 31, 2010 News

Strelna, May 31, Interfax – Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople urged Ukrainian dissenters to repent and join the canonic Orthodox Church. “Let them (dissenters – IF) not hesitate, but join the canonic Orthodox Church which is a ship of salvation,” Patriarch Bartholomew said in an interview to Vesti 24 TV which was recorded Sunday in the [...]

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Episcopal Assembly issues message, ends with the celebration of the Divine Liturgy

by OCP May 31, 2010 News

05/28/2010 NEW YORK, NY [OCA] — The Episcopal Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Hierarchs of North and Central America closed with the celebration of the Divine Liturgy at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral here on Friday morning, May 28, 2010. His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, and the diocesan and auxiliary bishops of the Orthodox Church in [...]

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His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel Awarded The “Patriarchal Cross” For Lay To Protopsalt Theodoros Vassilikos

by OCP May 31, 2010 News

Romanian Orthodox Church On 27 May, a concert of Byzantine music was performed in “Patriarch Teoctist Aula Magna” of the Patriarchal Palace, by the great Greek protopsalt (first religious soloist) Theodoros Vassilikos, in the presence of over nine hundred spectators. The Tronos group of psalts (religious singers) of the Romanian Patriarchate conducted by protopsalt deacon [...]

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His Beatitude Chaired The Spring Semester Pastoral Missionary Conference

by OCP May 31, 2010 News

His Beatitude Chaired The Spring Semester Pastoral Missionary Conference Of The Priests Of The Archdiocese Of Bucharest Romanian Orthodox Church On 26 May 2010, the spring semester conference with the theme “2010 – Homage Year of the Orthodox Creed and of the Romanian Autocephaly” was held in the “Patriarch Teoctist Aula Magna” of the Patriarchal [...]

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His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew Concludes the Visit to Russia

by OCP May 31, 2010 News

Translated Using Google Translate Service On May 31, 2010 ended the stay Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople , within the Russian Orthodox Church. During the ten-day visit, Primate of the Church of Constantinople, visited Moscow, St. Petersburg, visited Valaam and in Kronstadt. In the feast of Pentecost Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew and Patriarch of Moscow and All [...]

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Ecumenical Patriarch Visit Valaam Monastery

by OCP May 31, 2010 News

On 27th May 2010 the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew made a pilgrimage to Valaam Monastery and was received by the abbot of the monastery, Bishop Pankraty Zherdev. He first visited the Skete of St. Nicholas then moved on to the Skete of the Prophet Elias. At Prophet Elias the Patriarch requested that all sing the …

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