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Announcement of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church on the occasion of the latest imprisonment of Archbishop John

by OCP May 15, 2012 Featured News
His Eminence Archbishop Jovan VI Archbishop Of Ohrid And Metropolitan Of Skopje (Serbian Orthodox Church)

Serbian Orthodox Church 14/5/2012 After years of persecution, harassment, arrests and imprisonments, His Beatitude the Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje kyr Dr. John, pan-Orthodoxly renowned and recognized canonical Prelate of the ancient Ohrid Archbishopric, was sentenced yesterday, May 11th, to two and a half years in prison under false charges of alleged fraud [...]

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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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Archbishop of Athens Ieronymos to Visit Orthodox Church of Russia

by OCP May 5, 2012 News

By Areti Kotseli 4/5/2012 Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos will pay a visit to the Church of Russia May 23-30 at the invitation of Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow and All Russia. Ieronymos, who will be accompanied by members of the Holy Synod and hierarchs, will visit Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where he will [...]

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Archimandrite Alexander [Golitzin] to be consecrated to the episcopacy in Toledo May 4-6

by OCP May 3, 2012 News

OCA 3/5/2012 His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, and the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America will consecrate Archimandrite Alexander [Golitzin] to the episcopacy at Saint George Cathedral here Saturday, May 5, 2012. On October 4, 2011, the members of the Holy Synod canonically elected Archimandrite Alexander to the vacant [...]

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H.B Baseliose Thomas 1st laid the foundation stone for St.Gregoriose Cancer Research Centre

by OCP April 29, 2012 News

Syrian Orthodox Church in India India/Kerala/Chelad: H.B Baseliose Thomas 1st, Catholicose laid the stone for St.Gregoriose Cancer Research Centre,Chelad on 17th April 2012 in the eminent presence of H.G Mor Joseph Gregoriose Metropolitan(Holy Synod Secretary), H.G Mor Severiose Abraham Metropolitan, H.G Mor Ivaniose Mathews Metropolitan and in the Honarable presence of Sri.Anoop Jacob(Minister for …

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Moldovan parliament speaker meets Orthodox Church representatives

by OCP April 10, 2012 News

10/4/2012 Chisinau, April 10. /MOLDPRES/. Moldovan Parliament Speaker Marian Lupu today met the members of the Holy Synod of the Moldovan Orthodox Church, headed by Metropolitan of Chisinau and All Moldova Vladimir, the parliament’s media relations department has said. The participants in the meeting discussed the draft law on prevention and combating of discrimination, which [...]

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Archbishop Anba Pachomius the acting Patriarch of Coptic Church

by OCP March 23, 2012 Featured News

22/3/2012 Coptic Church committee to discuss papal candidates. The Holy Synod, the Coptic Church’s highest authority, will hold a meeting on Thursday to discuss papal nominees; Church to send acting-Pope’s name to Egypt’s de facto leader Tantawi for approval. The highest authority of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church, the Holy Synod, which is comprised of [...]

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Ancient traditions to guide selection of new Coptic pope

by OCP March 18, 2012 Featured News

18/3/2012 As all of Egypt mourns the passing of the Coptic patriarch, the wheels of tradition will soon start moving to elected a new pope to carry the ancient Egyptian church forward. “Don’t say the pope died … The pope is in heaven!” chanted thousands of Coptic Christians who had gathered at Cairo’s Abbassiya Cathedral [...]

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Glasul Bisericii is Heard by the People with Big Soul

by OCP March 3, 2012 News

22nd february 2012 The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: We give the following explanations on the articles entitled The Press Trust of the Romanian Orthodox Church and Why does the Romanian Orthodox Church is Dumb?: The press articles published by HOT NEWS make a presentation obviously tendentious and lacunal of the Basilica [...]

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Order of Saint Despot Stephen to Milovan Vitezovic and Miodrag Vujovic

by OCP February 29, 2012 News

24/2/2012 Serbian Church His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch awarded on February 22, 2012 in the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade Messrs Milovan Vitezovic and Miodrag Vujovic with the Order of Saint Despot Stephen Lazarevic in the presence of the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church Their Graces Bishops: Vasilije of [...]

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We are no tax cheats, says Church of Greece

by OCP February 23, 2012 News

AFP 23/2/2012 ATHENS – The Church of Greece denied media reports accusing it of tax evasion on Wednesday, saying the total amount of taxes paid in 2011 was over 12.5 million euros (S$20.8 million). “The Church of Greece … has never requested unequal tax treatment in relation to other Greek non-profit organisations,” the top church [...]

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New Decisions of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church

by OCP February 22, 2012 Featured News

21/2/2012 The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate, informs us: On 16 and 17 February 2012, the working session of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church was held in the Synodal Hall of the Patriarchal Residence, under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel. 1. The Holy Synod appreciated the results of the [...]

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The First Working Session Of The Holy Synod In 2012

by OCP February 17, 2012 News

Romanian Church On 16 February 2012, the Holy Synod met for the first time in 2012. The meeting of the Holy Synod takes place in the Synodal Hall of the Patriarchal Residence under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel. To start with the working session the Patriarch of Romania thanked God for the blessings [...]

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Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church convenes in Kiev

by OCP January 29, 2012 Featured News

27.01.2012 On 26 January 2012, the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church held its session in the Laura of the Caves in Kiev under the chairmanship of Metropolitan Agafangel of Odessa and Izmail. His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine could not chair the session because of his illness. Members of the [...]

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Nevrokop Bishop Nathaniel: We have not been informers and will not become now

by OCP January 28, 2012 News

25/1/2012 FOCUS News Agency Dissenting opinion of Bishop of Nevrokop Nathaniel stated at a meeting of the Holy Synod of the full composition, report № 1 on January 23, 2012, the decision in paragraph 7: “To be prepared and sent a letter to all bishops, by which to be forwarded the letter by Evtim Kostadinov [...]

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Holy Synod of Bishops issues statement regarding Archbishop Seraphim

by OCP January 25, 2012 News

SYOSSET, NY [OCA] On Saturday, January 21, 2012, the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America released the following statement concerning His Eminence, Archbishop Seraphim [Storheim]. “The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America has been made aware that His Eminence, Archbishop Seraphim, the suspended Archbishop of Ottawa and [...]

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Bulgaria’s Holy Synod: God Is Testing Us

by OCP January 23, 2012 News

23/1/20122 These days God is testing us, but our Holy Church will overcome this ordeal, Bulgaria’s Holy Synod says in a statement. It was included in the greetings of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church for the Saturday celebration of Patriarch Maxim’s name day, read by the Plovdiv Bishop Nicholay. The Holy Mass [...]

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The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece demands Elder Efraim’s release

by OCP January 19, 2012 News

13/1/2012 Lake Vistonida Issue At the decision of the Holy Synod Archbishop Jeronymos will visit the Abbot of the Vatopedi monastery, Archimandrite Efrem, in the Korydallos detention centre. In a statement, the Holy Synod condemns the elder’s detention on Christmas Eve and indirectly demanded his release. It says that the Synod ‘along with the congregation [...]

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Bulgarian Orthodox Church is not against in vitro fertilisation, Metropolitan says

by OCP January 5, 2012 Featured News

4/1/2012 The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, does not oppose in vitro fertilisation – in contrast to a December 2011 statement that it did; the misconception was a result of a clerical error in the initial statement. This is according to Lovech Metropolitan Gavril who, however, underlined that the statement was correct [...]

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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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Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church completes its final session of 2011

by OCP January 4, 2012 News

28/12/2011 The final of 2011 session of the Holy Synod was held at the Patriarch’s residence in St. Daniel’s Monastery on December 28. Members of the Holy Synod resolved to appoint Bishop Alexander of Dmitrov, a vicar of the Moscow diocese, Bishop of Bryansk and Sevsk. The Synod nominated His Eminence Feofilakt (Moiseev) Bishop of [...]

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Bulgarian Orthodox Church Slams In Vitro Fertilization, Surrogacy

by OCP January 2, 2012 Featured News

31/12/2011 The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church has declared “reservations” against in vitro fertilization and surrogacy, viewing them as a “human interference that is counter to God’s will in the existential foundations of life.” This has been made clear in a statement of the Bulgarian Patriarchate on the website of the Bulgarian Orthodox [...]

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2012 – Homage Year Of The Extreme Unction And Looking After The Sick In The Romanian Patriarchate

by OCP December 31, 2011 Featured News

29/12/2011 The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: Following the initiative of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel taken during the working session of 17 February 2011, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church approved to declare the year 2012 as Homage Year of the Extreme Unction and looking after the sick in the [...]

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Holy Synod of Bishops expresses solidarity with Coptic Church in Egypt

by OCP December 23, 2011 Featured News

SYOSSET, NY [OCA] 21/12/2011 The witness and mission of the Coptic Church in Egypt have their origin in apostolic times. Today, the Coptic Church of Egypt is the largest Christian Church in the Middle East. Under the leadership of His Holiness, Pope Shenouda, the Coptic Church is a dynamic and active Church, with significant and [...]

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Controversy over Bulgarian Orthodox Church agreement to be checked by Dossier Commission

by OCP December 16, 2011 Featured News
Patriarch Maxim, head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church from July 1971 to the present, is among those who will be checked by the Dossier Commission, along with metropolitans, bishops and heads of seminaries and monasteries. Photo: Georgi Kozhouharov

16/12/2011 Controversy is continuing about a decision by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod to agree to have senior clergy checked by the Dossier Commission as to whether any were involved with communist-era State Security and Bulgarian People’s Army intelligence. The decision was announced by the church a few weeks after Varna Metropolitan Kiril made [...]

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