Thursday, November 24, 2011

13th cent Armenian miniatures returned to Jerusalem Patriarchate

November 24, 2011 Featured News
Repatriated miniatures depicting St. Mark and Holy Ascension of Christ were missing for over a century. Courtesy images

Vrej Nersessian 23/11/2011 LONDON – The era of the Armenian Cilician Kingdom, between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries, marks the golden age of Armenian manuscript illumination. In the first half of the thirteenth century the most beautiful and sumptuous manuscripts were copied and illuminated under royal patronage by the most famous Armenian artist Toros [...]

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On the birthday of His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr the episcopate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church prayed for health and recovery of their Primate

November 24, 2011 Featured News

23/11/2011 On November 23, the day of the 76th birthday anniversary of His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Refectory Church of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. With the blessing of the primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the worship was led by the permanent members of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian [...]

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Secretary for the Primate of the UOC Archbishop Alexander commented on health condition of His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr

November 24, 2011 News

23/11/2011 On November 23, having returned from the hospital, where Metropolitan Volodymyr stays, Archbishop Alexander of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy and Vyshneve held a press conference for journalists, who gathered at the Refectory Church of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. Answering the reporters’ questions, His Eminence Alexander said in particular: “Today, Metropolitan Volodymyr is in the intensive care unit. His [...]

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Ethiopian riders race in Rwanda with Holy Protection

November 24, 2011 News

Photo: © Riccardo Scanferla By: Pierre Carrey 24/11/2011 Climbers from East Africa say Saint Mary watches over them The tag on Weldemikael Weyo’s yellow and green bike is not common at all. A religious icon is placed at the base of the stem, a sticker with the Madonna appearing at the top of the frame, [...]

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Holy Synod of Bishops issues statement regarding Archbishop Seraphim

November 24, 2011 News

SYOSSET, NY [OCA] 21/11/2011 On Monday, November 21, 2011, the following statement regarding His Eminence, Archbishop Seraphim [Storheim] was released by the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America. “The Lesser Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America, meeting at the OCA Chancery in Oyster Bay Cove, NY, September 21 [...]

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Belarusian Christians Sue Minsk Police

November 24, 2011 News

24/11/2011 MINSK — Christian organizations in Minsk filed a lawsuit today against police in connection with the violent dispersal on November 22 of Christians gathered in the Belarusian capital’s October Square, RFE/RL’s Belarus Service reports. Activists from Minsk’s Orthodox Christian, Roman Catholic, and Protestant churches have been gathering on the square daily since the beginning [...]

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ANNUAL ORIENTAL ORTHODOX CHURCHES’ CONCELEBRATION OF THE HOLY LITURGY

November 24, 2011 Featured News

Oriental Orthodox Churches in USA 24/11/2011 On Saturday November 19, 2011, the Annual Oriental Orthodox Churches’ Concelebration of the Holy Liturgy took place in the sister Coptic Church of St. Michael and St. Mina in Staten Island, New York. His Eminence Mor Archbishop Cyril Aphrem Karim together with local clergy and some parishioners represented our [...]

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New Metropolitan Elected for Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul & Environs

November 24, 2011 News

24/11/2011 Syria: Very Rev Rabban Daoud Matti Sharaf will be consecrated as Metropolitan by Holy Father on Sunday. Name : Very Rev Daoud Matti Sharaf Rabban Born On : 1976, Mosul Education : Bachelor of Theology (Mosul Clergy Monastery) Monk : 2000 by His Holiness Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I Iwas Rabban (Priest) : 2001 by [...]

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