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UOC Primate celebrated Divine Liturgy at St. George’s Church in Kyiv

by OCP May 9, 2012 News

On May 6, Sunday 4th after Easter and commemoration of St George, Metropolitan Volodymyr celebrated the Divine Liturgy at St. George Church, situated in the square in front of the Southern terminal of Kyiv railway station. Concelebrating to His Beatitude were: Metropolitan Lazarus of Crimea and Simferopol, secretary for the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox [...]

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Saint Patron Celebration And Consecration At Cornu Monastery

by OCP May 9, 2012 News

Romanian Church On 8th May 2012, the Orthodox faithful celebrate Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist. He was one of the 12 Apostles of the Saviour and wrote the Gospel of his name, three canonical epistles and the book of the Revelation. Saint John the Evangelist is also one of the protectors of Cornu Monastery, [...]

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Holy Synod Spring Session opens at Dormition Monastery, Rives Junction, MI

by OCP May 8, 2012 News

7/5/2012 The Spring Session of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America opened at the Dormition of the Mother of God Monastery here on Monday morning, May 7, 2012. His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, celebrated the opening Service of Thanksgiving, after which he delivered his opening address. Reports on external and legal [...]

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NBC to broadcast Resurrection Service and Divine Liturgy of Pascha

by OCP April 5, 2012 Featured News

5/4/2012 Flushing, N.Y., April 4, 2012 — The National Council of Churches, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission invite Easter worshippers to witness the Orthodox Christian Resurrection Service and Divine Liturgy of Pascha. The service, recorded live on Pascha 2011 at St. Nicholas Church in Flushing, N.Y., will be broadcast [...]

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Clergy confession of the Episcopal Deanery of Vracar-Grocka

by OCP April 5, 2012 News

4/4/2012 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch served the Divine Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts in the church of Holy Trinity in Zaklopaca. On this occasion the confession of the clergy of the Episcopal Deanery of Vracar-Grocka. Source:

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Eastern Orthodox members trying to grow in Jacksonville

by OCP February 26, 2012 Featured News
Peyton Tosh reads aloud during a Vespers service for the Jacksonville Eastern Orthodox Church with her brother Gabriel and sister Lydia in the chapel at Grace United Methodist Church in Jacksonville. The Eastern Orthodox church is trying to build a larger community in Jacksonville.

By STEVEN SPEARIE The State Journal-Register 25/2/2012 JACKSONVILLE — For Karen Woods of Jacksonville, attending Divine Liturgy, the primary worship service in the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition, has meant making a 90-minute trek one way to Quincy’s St. Raphael of Brooklyn Mission Church each Sunday. Woods, a convert to Orthodoxy along with her husband, Martin, [...]

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Third anniversary of the enthronement of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia marked by Divine Liturgy at Church of Christ the Savior

by OCP February 3, 2012 Featured News

        2/2/2012 On February 1, 2012, the 3d anniversary of the enthronement of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Church of Christ the Saviour. The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church was assisted by Metropolitans Vladimir of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, Juvenaly [...]

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Metropolitan Volodymyr celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Protection Convent of Kyiv

by OCP January 13, 2012 News

Ukrainian Church On December 8, the Sunday after the Nativity and the feast of the Holy Virgin, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Volodymyr celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the cathedral church of the Holy Protection Convent of Kyiv. Concelebrating to His Beatitude was Archbishop Alexander of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy and Vyshneve and clergymen of [...]

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Divine Liturgy of Holy Nativity and Theophany of Our Lord Jesus Christ kicked off

by OCP January 6, 2012 News

06/01/2012 The Divine Liturgy of Holy Nativity and Theophany of Our Lord Jesus Christ kicked off at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. The officiating priest at mass is Catholicos of All Armenians is Karekin II. The president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan accompanied by his wife Rita Sargsyan was present at the Liturgy, as well [...]

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New Year Te Deum at the Patriarchate

by OCP January 5, 2012 News

On the first day of the New Year the Te Deum service is celebrated in the Orthodox Church after the Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great. The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church decided during the working session of 16 – 17 February 2011 that the Te Deum service should be celebrated after [...]

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BOC Southampton Mission Inaugurated

by OCP January 2, 2012 Featured News

The British Orthodox Church 20/12/2011 The opening service of the British Orthodox Mission of Saint Polycarp, Southampton, was celebrated on Saturday 17th December in the Anglican Church of the Holy Trinity, Weston. Father Simon Smyth led the celebration of the Divine Liturgy supported by Subdeacon John Morgan from Bournemouth and Readers James Kelly, Daniel Malyon [...]

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OCA, ROCOR Metropolitans, hierarchs concelebrate the Divine Liturgy at ROCOR’s NYC Cathedral

by OCP December 13, 2011 Featured News

SYOSSET, NY [OCA] 12/12/2011 His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, and His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, concelebrated the Divine Liturgy for the first time at the Synodal Cathedral of the Sign, New York, NY, on Saturday, December 10, 2011. The celebration [...]

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Archimandrite Chrysostomos Kykkotis elected as new Metropolitan of Kyrenia

by OCP November 29, 2011 News

25/11/2011 The Holy Synod of the Church of Cyprus, met on Thursday morning, on November 24, 2011, to elect a new Metropolitan of Kyrenia. Following the celebration of the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of St. John, the Synod elected Archimandrite Chrysostomos Kykkotis as the new Metropolitan of Kyrenia. The chirotony of the Metropolitan Chrysostomos [...]

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Feast of St. Baselios Shakrallah concluded at Kandanad Cathedral

by OCP October 29, 2011 News

Syrian Orthodox Church in India 24/10/2011 His Beatitude Catholicos of India Baselios Thomas I led Holy Penta Divine Liturgy. INDIA/KERALA/KANDANAD: Dukhrono (feast) of St. Baselios Shakrallah concluded at Morth Mariyam JSO Cathedral here with Holy Penta Divine Liturgy led by His Beatitude Catholicos of India Baselios Thomas I. Metropolitans Their Graces Senior Metropolitan Dr. Mor [...]

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KYIV. On the day of invention of the honorable relics of St. Philaret (Amfiteatrov) Metropolitan Volodymyr celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the St Panteleimon’s Monastery of Kyiv

by OCP October 25, 2011 News

On October 23, the Church prayerfully commemorates the invention of the honorable relics of the Holy Hierarch Philaret (Amfiteatrov), Metropolitan of Kyiv and Galicia (1994). On this day, His Beatitude Volodymyr, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the cathedral church of St. Panteleimon’s monastery in Kyiv (Feofaniya). Concelebrating to him [...]

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Serbian Patriarch Irinej at the celebration of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God in Patriarchate of Pec

by OCP October 21, 2011 News

15/10/2011 In an ancient seat of the Serbian archbishops and patriarchs also this year one of monastery slavas was celebrated – the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God. This year’s celebration of the holiday was especially marked thanks to His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch who on the eve of the holiday participated in [...]

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Feast of Saint Pious Parascheva at Calarasi Park church of Bucharest

by OCP October 15, 2011 News

Romanian Church On 14 October 2011, the feast of Saint Pious Parascheva, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church was amid the faithful of the parish of Saints Emperors Constantine and Helen and Saint Parascheva – Calarasi Park of Bucharest. After re-consecrating the place of worship, the Patriarch of Romania celebrated the Divine [...]

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Bishop Mitrophan: To all Clergy of the Eastern American Dicoese

by OCP October 15, 2011 News

13/10/2011 We are planning another clergy seminar again this year to be held at Shadeland on November 9-10, 2011. The featured speaker is Archimandrite Demetrios Carellas, Chaplain for the Nativity of the Theotokos Monastery in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania. Archimandrite Demetrios will speak on contemporary issues in today’s society. Vespers will be held on Wednesday evening, November [...]

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THE FEAST OF ST. THEKLA AT THE PATRIARCHATE OF JERUSALEM

by OCP October 14, 2011 News

09/10/2011 On Friday, September 24th / October 7th 2011, the feast of St. Thekla the Protomartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles was solemnly celebrated at the Patriarchate. The feast was held at the chapel named after the Saint to Her honor inside the Central Monastery of the Fathers of the Holy Sepulcher to the west of the Monastic [...]

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Thousands mourn victims of Maspero violence; church blames ‘infiltrators’

by OCP October 11, 2011 News

ByOmnia Al Desoukie Daily News Egypt 10/10/2011 CAIRO: Egypt’s Orthodox Church called on Christians around the world to pray and fast for three days to mourn the martyrs of Sunday’s violence. The church’s Holy Synod condemned in a statement what it described as “an attack on Copts.” Deadly clashes between army forces and protesters resulted [...]

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The First Divine Liturgy In The Romanian Church In Most – Czech Republic

by OCP October 11, 2011 News

At present, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, is in Most locality, Czech Republic, where on, 9 october 2011, he consecrated the Romanian Orthodox church over there, together with His Beatitude Metropolitan Krystoph of Czech Republic and Slovakia, assisted by a group of hierarchs, priests and deacons from Romania, Czech Republic and [...]

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The First Century of the Vozdovac Church

by OCP October 5, 2011 News

3/10/2011 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch served yesterday the Hierarchal Divine Liturgy in the Vozdovac church of Sts. Emperor Constantine and Helen which most solemnly its centenary was celebrated (1911-2011). The Divine Liturgy he served with hierarchal deputy protopresbyter-staurophor Branko Topalovic, the head of the church in Vozdovac, protopresbyter-staurophor Nedeljko Marjanovic, and protopresbyters Sima Klickovic, [...]

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Patriarchal Liturgy in Grevena

by OCP September 28, 2011 News

On Sunday, September 25, 2011, His All-Holiness presided over the concelebration of the Divine Liturgy with Metropolitans Joel of Edessa, Basil of Elasson, Seraphim of Kastoria and Theokletos of Florina at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Evaggelistria in Grevena. The service was followed by a memorial for the late Metropolitan Aimilianos of Grevena. Source:

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His All-Holiness officially opens restored church in Tsegkelkioi

by OCP September 24, 2011 News

Ecumenical Patriarchate On Sunday, September 18, 2011, in response to a formal invitation from Metropolitan Geron Athanasios of Chalcedon and the Ecclesiastical Committee of the Community of Tsegkelkioi, His All-Holiness presided over the Divine Liturgy at the beautifully restored Church of St. George the Trophybearer. Source:

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Two centuries of the Karageorge’s Church

by OCP September 22, 2011 News

22/9/2011 On the day of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God, on September 21, 2011, His Grace Bishop Jovan of Sumadija, on the occasion of the church slava of the Karageorge’s church in Topola and the jubilee of the 200 years since the construction of this sanctity, served the Divine Liturgy in [...]

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