From the monthly archives:

June 2010

17th General Conference of the Interparliamentary Orthodox Assembly underway in Yerevan

by OCP June 29, 2010 News

29.06.2010 Liana Yeghiazaryan “Radiolur” The 17th annual General Conference of the Interparliamentary Orthodox Assembly is under way in the Armenian Parliament. It has brought together about 60 delegates from Latvia, Romania, Greece, Russia, Albania, Georgia and other countries. The Assembly is an inter-church and an inter-religious meeting, but it has a political pretext, as well. [...]

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Patriarch, defense minister mark Holiday

by OCP June 29, 2010 News

NIŠ — Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej and Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac attended Vidovdan (St. Vitus Day) ceremonies in Niš on Monday. Irinej was quoted as saying that the Serbian people can defend Kosovo through unity and readiness to save this holy Serbian territory in the best way possible. “I trust that those who [...]

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Archimandrite Deiniol visits Babingley

by OCP June 29, 2010 News

28/6/2010 The British Orthodox Church The congregation at St. Mary and St. Felix, Babingley, were delighted to welcome to their church Archimandrite Deiniol, Administrator of the Wales Orthodox Mission (Ecumenical Patriarchate), who was present for the Divine Liturgy and afterwards gave a talk on the “Holy Wells & Saints”of Wales” which was instructivive and showed [...]

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Bishop Irinej: No changes in the stand of the Serbian Orthodox Church on the issue of Independence

by OCP June 29, 2010 News

30/6/2010 The bishop of Backa, Irinej Bulović, said in Vienna that there had been no changes in the stand of the Serbian Orthodox Church on the issue of the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo. No one in Serbia will recognize that independence and neither will the Serbian Orthodox Church, he told a press conference. He [...]

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Patriarch Kirill consecrates St.Catherine Cathedral

by OCP June 28, 2010 News

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill has consecrated the restored St.Catherine Catherdral outside St.Petersburg, media reports said on Sunday. The Cathedral was built in 1840 only to be blown up in 1939, when a monument to iconic Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin was constructed at the site. The reconstruction works began in 2005 in a …

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17th Annual General Assembly of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy to Be Convened in Yerevan

by OCP June 28, 2010 News

25.06.2010 From June 28 to July 1 the 17th Annual General Assembly of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy will be convened in Yerevan. About 70 delegates from 16 countries will take part in the works of the Assembly. RA President Serzh Sargsyan, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II will receive the [...]

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Copts Battle Everyone’s Fight

by OCP June 28, 2010 News

25/6/2010 A new grassroots movement among the Coptic Diaspora was established in Washington this past weekend. Almost 100 Coptic Christian community organizers from around the globe gathered to discuss religious freedom in the Middle East and future lobbying efforts for the rights of Egypt’s Coptic people. Coptic Solidarity’s mission is to empower Copts in Egypt [...]

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A festal service in Beijing’s Orthodox temple on the day commemorating the Chinese Martyrs

by OCP June 28, 2010 News

Chinese Orthodox Church A Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos on June 24, 2010, the day of the memorial of the Chinese martyrs. The previous evening, at the memorial cross on the site of the All Saints Church, Fr. Sergey Voronin, the priest-in-charge, served a litiya for the [...]

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Oldest-Known Paintings of Apostles Andrew, John Uncovered

by OCP June 28, 2010 News

24/6/2010 By: Eric Young|Christian Post Reporter The oldest known images of the apostles Andrew and John have been found in a catacomb near St. Paul’s Basilica in Rome, Vatican officials announced Tuesday. The paintings, dating back to the 4th century AD, were part of a larger fresco that also included the head-and-shoulders depictions of the [...]

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Divine Liturgy in Cappadocia

by OCP June 28, 2010 News

Metropolitan Hilarion concelebrates Divine Liturgy in Cappadocia On 27 June 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, concelebrated the Divine Liturgy with His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria and All Africa, and His Beatitude Archbishop Hieronymos of Athens and [...]

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Patriarch spends St. Vitus Day in Kosovo

by OCP June 28, 2010 News

BELGRADE, GRAČANICA — Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Irinej is spending this Vidovdan (St. Vitus Day) with the people in Kosovo, said reports. On Sunday, he attended ceremonies at the Serbian Orthodox monastery of Gračanica, near the Serb enclave. According to the announcement from the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC), Irinej also will visit Gazimestan, the location of [...]

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Armenian Pontiff Receives Foreign Minister of Austria

by OCP June 26, 2010 News

Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin On June 25, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, received Michael Spindelegger, Foreign Minister of Austria, and his delegation, in the headquarters of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. Welcoming the delegation to the center of Armenian Spiritual life, His Holiness noted that the Minister’s [...]

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ORDINATION TO THE DIACONATE OF AN AFRICAN STUDENT OF THE PATRIARCHAL ACADEMY OF ALEXANDRIA

by OCP June 26, 2010 News

Alexandrian Patriarchate On 20th June 2010 His grace Bishop Gabriel of Mareotis, Patriarchal Vicar of Alexandria, by order of His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, conducted the service of ordination to the Diaconate of the African student Zacharia Mulingwa, a student at the Patriarchal Academy of “Agios Athanasios” at [...]

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HIS BEATITUDE RECEIVED MR. CHRISTIAN COINTAT, MEMBER OF THE FRENCH SENATE

by OCP June 26, 2010 News

17/06/2010 Jerusalem Patriarchate On Monday, 25th of May / 7th of June 2010, His Beatitude Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III received at the Patriarchate of Jerusalem Mr. Christian Cointat, member of the French Senate, representing French citizens living abroad. In the context of this visit an interesting and constructive discussion took place regarding Jerusalem and [...]

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THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF BOSNIA – HERZEGOVINA VISITS THE PATRIARCHATE.

by OCP June 26, 2010 News

Jerusalem Patriarchate On Monday, 1st / 14th of June 2010, His Beatitude Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III received his Excellency Mr. Nicola Spiric, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia & Herzegovina. The Chairman of the Council expressed his gratitude to His Beatitude for the cordial welcome and conveyed regards from the citizens of [...]

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“The political will must be sustained by moral responsability”- His Holiness Aram I

by OCP June 25, 2010 News

This year, from June 25-27th 2010, leaders from the world’s most powerful countries, the G8/G20 nations, will meet in Canada for their annual summit. These leaders meet every year to agree to make decisions that will affect the worlds’ most vulnerable people and the planet itself. Since 2005, senior faith leaders from across the world [...]

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Patriarch wants apology from EU Office

by OCP June 25, 2010 News

25/6/2010 BELGRADE — Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Irinej expressed “deep concern” over the incorrect translation of the part of Pieter Feith’s recent address before the EP. The EU representative in Kosovo spoke about the stance of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) towards Kosovo. The patriarch now requested that the EU office in Belgrade apologizes for the [...]

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Bulgaria Snubs ECHR Ruling in Favor of Alternative Orthodox Church

by OCP June 25, 2010 News

25/6/2010 The Bulgarian government refuses to pay compensations to the Inokentii synod, which has sued the country last year in the European Court of Human Rights, on charges of violated rights to religious freedom. The problem following the schism of Bulgarian Church has established two Orthodox community centers, one headed by Patriarch Maxim and the [...]

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DECR chairman meets with Metropolitan Sava of Warsaw and All Poland

by OCP June 25, 2010 News

24.06.2010 Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met with His Beatitude Sava, Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland, during his visit to Warsaw on 23 June 2010. The Primate of the Polish Orthodox Church gave dinner in honour of his guest. Metropolitan Sava warmly welcomed the high-ranking [...]

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Svetlana Medvedeva visits main church of Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia

by OCP June 25, 2010 News

Svetlana Medvedeva visits main church of Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in West Coast of United States On June 23, the commemoration day of St. Ioann of Tobolsk, the Russian President’s wife Svetlana Medvedeva, who accompanies her husband on his first official visit to California, visited the Cathedral of Our Lady the Joy to All [...]

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Orthodox Women Union set up in Moscow

by OCP June 25, 2010 News

‘Women are to revive traditional values, oppose abortions, struggle against alcoholism and protect housewives’ Moscow, June 25, Interfax – The Moscow Patriarchate lays great hopes on the Orthodox Women Union as its organizational forum took place on Friday in Moscow. “I think this organization is much needed, there’s a social demand in it. It has [...]

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Patriarch Daniel hopes tourists to have access to Jordan Valley

by OCP June 25, 2010 News

22/6/2010 The Romanian Orthodox Church (BOR) Patriarch Daniel, on Tuesday June 22, voiced hope that the Israeli authorities will make every effort to allow tourists’ access to the Jordan Valley, so that the Romanian pilgrims may be given the opportunity to visit the Romanian Convent of St. John the Baptist, located along the Jordan River, [...]

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Copts protest Pop Shenouda’s rejection of remarriage Verdict

by OCP June 25, 2010 News

25/6/2010 CAIRO: Dozens of Copts protested Thursday outside the Ministry of Justice headquarters in downtown Cairo against Pope Shenouda III’s refusal to allow Copts to remarry. The protesters called for ending the controversy raised recently after Pope Shenouda, head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church, rejected a court ruling that obliged the Church to issue second [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church and Catholic Church of Poland seek to reconcile people of two Countries

by OCP June 25, 2010 News

Moscow, June 25, Interfax – The Moscow Patriarchate and the Catholic Church work on a joint document covering church contribution to Russia-Poland reconciliation. The first session of the working group of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church in Poland on the elaboration of a document on the contribution of Churches to reconciliation between [...]

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Inaugural Meeting of the Orthodox Assembly for the British Isles is Held

by OCP June 25, 2010 News

In a Communique dated June 22, 2010, posted on the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain website, it was announced: “The Inaugural Meeting of the Pan-Orthodox Assembly of Bishops with Churches in the British Isles was held on 21st June 2010 at Thyateira House, the centre of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira [...]

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