British Orthodox Church

Prayer for Egypt held at British Orthodox London Mission

April 14, 2013 Featured News

  The British Orthodox Church – 14/4/13 London: On 13 April 2013 at the British Orthodox London Mission, a Service of Prayer was held for the Church in Egypt following the attacks at Khusous and at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo. Metropolitan Abba Serapihm lead the prayer and Divine Liturgy. Source:  

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First Liturgy at Windsor Mission

March 21, 2013 Featured News

The British Orthodox Church -20/3/13 The first Orthodox Liturgy for the British Orthodox Windsor Mission was held at St. Andrew’s Church, Clewer, on 16 March, through the kind hospitality afforded by the Rev’d Louise Brown and St. Andrew’s  PCC. Despite the torrential rain it was well supported and by the end of the Divine Liturgy [...]

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Glastonbury Abbey – Influence and Legacy

January 16, 2013 Featured News

16/1/2013 The British Orthodox Church Glastonbury Abbey – Influence and Legacy A seminar at Abbey House, Chilkwell Street, Glastonbury Saturday 2 February 2013, 10 am – 4.30 pm. The last few years have been and exciting time for Glastonbury archaeology and history, with the rediscovery and reinterpretation of material from historic excavations, new surveys of [...]

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Metropolitan Abba Seraphim’s Christmas Message

December 31, 2012 Featured News

31/12/12 - The British Orthodox Church This year Abba Seraphim celebrated the Nativity Feast on Christmas Eve (24 December) at the Chatham Church. In his address Abba Seraphim spoke of the angelic proclamation of Peace on Earth, which he noted has always been elusive, “It seems almost alien to the natural condition of man and since [...]

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Abba Seraphim commends Mediaeval Mystery Plays

December 9, 2012 Featured News

The British Orthodox Church-9/12/2012 On 5 December, Abba Seraphim and Subdeacon Daniel Malyon attended a performance of scenes from the York cycle of the mediaeval mystery plays, which was being performed at St. George-in-the-East Church at Shadwell. This was the first year that the Players of St. Peter, a long established group of amateur and [...]

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British Orthodox Synod meets

December 9, 2012 News

November 2012 The Synod of the British Orthodox Church, which usually meets twice yearly, convened at the Church Secretariat in Charlton,  London, on 24 November under the chairmanship of Abba Seraphim. Apart from receiving  reports on the progress and development of parishes and missions, the election and enthronement of Pope Tawadros II was noted with [...]

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Abba Seraphim on Human Rights

November 15, 2012 Featured News

British Orthodox Church On 10 November at the Copthorne Tara Hotel in Kensington, Abba Seraphim gave an address at the Annual Dinner of the Coptic Medical Society. His subject was “Campaigning for the Human Rights of the Copts” in which he spoke of his part in supporting both Copts and converts to Christianity, especially in [...]

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Abba Seraphim gives address at Westminster Abbey – Video

November 9, 2012 News

The British Orthodox Church 6/11/2012 On 5 November Abba Seraphim addressed the boys and staff of Westminster School assembled in Westminster Abbey on the topical matter of the 1605 Gunpowder Treason Plot. He noted that although Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators had just grievances concerning the treatment of Catholics, it was clearly an act of [...]

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Orthodox Mission begins in Windsor

October 13, 2012 Featured News

The British Orthodox Church 13/10/2012 The first service of Orthodox prayer at the Orthodox Mission of St Andrew, Windsor, went very well indeed, far exceeding what had been hoped for. Father Peter had prepared to pray with one person he had been visiting for some months, but as the prayers from the Agpeya, or Coptic [...]

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Abba Seraphim’s letter to the Foreign Secretary

October 13, 2012 News

The British Orthodox Church 13/10/2012 The Right Hon. William Hague, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA Dear Mr. Hague, I am writing on behalf of the Law & Parliamentary Committee of the British Orthodox Church to express concern about aspects of the United Kingdom’s current policy towards the civil war in Syria. Whilst we share [...]

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Glastonbury Review No. 122 now available

August 16, 2012 Featured News

The British Orthodox Church 16/8/2012 Read Online Issue here: Issue No. 122 (July 2012) of The Glastonbury Review is now online. Hard copies will be available shortly via local church outlets or you can order directly via our website. A normal issue comprises 128 pages but issue No. 122 is an extended one (comprising 134 [...]

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H.M. The Queen responds to loyal greeting from British Orthodox Church

July 13, 2012 Featured News

The British Orthodox Church 12/7/2012 In response to a congratulatory message sent to H.M. The Queen on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee, Her Majesty sent the following reply to Abba Seraphim: Buckingham Palace I send my grateful thanks to the Metropolitan, Priests and Officers of the British Orthodox Church, for their kind message of [...]

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British Museum Colloquium on Egypt in the First Millennium

July 13, 2012 News

12/7/2012 The British Orthodox Church Abba Seraphim and Subdeacon Daniel Malyon attended the British Museum Colloquium, “Pagans, Christians and Muslims: Egypt in the First Millennium AD”, held on Monday & Tuesday, 9 & 10 July. On Monday evening Dr. Gawdat Gabra, former director of Cairo’s Coptic Museum, delivered the Raymond & Beverly Sackler Foundation Distinguished [...]

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2012 Glastonbury Pilgrimage

June 17, 2012 Featured News

17/6/2012 The British Orthodox Church After a pause last year, the Glastonbury Pilgrimage resumed its annual commemoration at Glastonbury Abbey this year on 16 June. Abba Seraphim was the Orthodox celebrant in the morning in the abbey’s undercroft, assisted by Father Simon Smyth, Deacon John Stuart, Subdeacons Paul Ashdown and Daniel Malyon and Readers Anthony-Paul [...]

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Celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of H.M. The Queen

June 8, 2012 News

The British Orthodox Church 2nd June 2012 The British Orthodox Church has marked the Diamond Jubilee of H.M. The Queen with a special thanksgiving prayer used in all its churches and missions, “Almighty God, who rulest over all the kingdoms of the world, and dost order them according to thy good pleasure: We yield Thee [...]

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British Orthodox Synod issues Statement regarding the Papal Election

June 2, 2012 Featured News
His Eminence Abba Seraphim - Metropolitan Seraphim of Glastonbury

1/6/2012 A Statement from the Clergy Synod of the Diocese of the British Orthodox Church within the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate on the selection of the Patriarch of Alexandria. At the Clergy Synod of the British Orthodox Church held on Wednesday 30th May 2012, at the Church Secretariat in London, under the presidency of His Eminence [...]

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Annual Protest Vigil at the Eritrean Embassy in London

May 19, 2012 Featured News

19/5/2012 The British Orthodox Church Read OCP Article on Persecution of Christians in Eritrea: The Detained Patriarch, Persecuted Christians and a Dying Church On 17 May, what has sadly become the annual Protest Vigil at the Eritrean Embassy in Islington, London , appropriately took as its motto, “Ten Years is too long.” As on previous [...]

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Ordination at London Mission

May 5, 2012 News

The British Orthodox Church 5/5/2012 On 5 May, during the regular monthly celebration of the Divine Liturgy for the British Orthodox London Mission of SS. George & Paul the Hermit at St. George-in-the-East, Shadwell, Abba Seraphim ordained Daniel Malyon as a Subdeacon. Daniel is a member of the BOC Portsmouth Parish but whilst teaching near [...]

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IOC-DER Secretary visits British Orthodox Church Secretariat

May 3, 2012 News
Fr Thomas P John, Metropolitan Abba Seraphim and Fr Abraham Thomas

Indian – British Orthodox Churches On 2 May, during a brief visit to the United Kingdom, Father Abraham Thomas, Secretary of the Department of Ecumenical Relations of the Indian (Malankara) Orthodox Church, accompanied by Father Thomas P. John, Parish Priest of St. Gregorios Indian Orthodox Church at Brockley, paid a fraternal call on Abba Seraphim [...]

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Update: News from Cairo

March 18, 2012 Featured News

British Orthodox Church – Under the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate 18/3/2012 Abba Seraphim and His Grace Bishop Angaelos arrived on the same flight at Cairo airport at 5.15 a.m. local time. Abba Seraphim was met at the airport by Shenouda Mamdouh. His secretary in Egypt. The Holy Synod will meet at noon at the Patriarchate. after [...]

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London Mission to be launched by the British Orthodox Church

March 4, 2012 Featured News

London Mission – St. George’s-in-the-East – Father Peter Farrington The British Orthodox Church (Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate) 4/3/2012 The first Monthly Meeting will be held on Thursday, 15 March with Evening Prayer at 7.30 p.m. followed by an address by Father Peter “Lord, teach us to pray” (Luke XI: 1-4) with a discussion and concluding with [...]

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New veil for the iconostasis at St Alban’s

August 24, 2011 News

British Orthodox Church 15/8/2011 The congregation of St Alban’s Orthodox Church in Chatham are very pleased to have the beautiful veil for the iconostasis now hanging in place. This veil was a gift from Abba Seraphim and was manufactured in Egypt. It was brought back to the UK by one of our members after a [...]

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Bournemouth Church’s Diamond Jubilee

July 4, 2011 News

The British Orthodox Church 4/7/2011 The British Orthodox Parish of Christ the Saviour at Winton, Bournemouth, celebrated the church’s Diamond Jubilee with a visit from Abba Seraphim combining services and events over the weekend of 2-3 July. Although the parish was founded 75 years ago, the church – formerly a stable and carpenter’s workshop – [...]

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New lych-gate dedicated at Cusworth Church

June 27, 2011 News

The British Orthodox Church On 18 June Abba Seraphim, assisted by Fathers David Seeds and Gregory Tillett with Archdeacon Alexander Astill, dedicated a new lych gate at St. Mark & St. Hubert’s Church, Cusworth, Doncaster, South Yorkshire. The previous lych gate, had fallen into disrepair after some forty-five years and the entrance to the …

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Abba Seraphim speaks to priests in Exeter

June 19, 2011 News

The British Orthodox Church On 6 June Abba Seraphim addressed the St. Boniface Society,at the Catholic Chaplaincy of Exeter University, on the subject of “The Two Families of Orthodoxy. An Ecumenical Perspective.” After discussing the historical background to the division, tracing from the Council of Ephesus in 431 and the Second Council of Ephesus in [...]

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