A report by Metropolitan Luka of Zaporozhye and Melitopol at the conference "The Influence of the Patriarchate of Constantinople on the Fate of Orthodoxy in Ukraine," organized by the Center for Russian Studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade.

23.10.2024

The struggle of the Moscow Patriarchate for Russian monastic presence on Mount Athos in the 1960s – early 1970s

03.10.2024

The Extreme Inconsistency of the Behaviour of Patriarch Bartholomew

Protopresbyter Ioannis K. Diotis. Theologian, social commentator, writer and publisher. Recipient of awards from the Academy of Sciences of Athens for his activities.

25.12.2023 • Reviews

Pyrrhic victory of the Ukrainian authorities: the fight against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Article by Vakhtang V. Kipshidze, vice-chairman of the Synodal Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media

16.11.2023 • Reviews

Establishing Autocephaly: The Canonical Aspect

18.10.2023 • Reviews

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'

The Church’s communication with the world external to her is a special but integral part of Orthodox mission. This ministry is not always the direct proclamation of the Word of God. However, it helps millions of people to see Orthodoxy from various viewpoints and also to come to feel the beauty and power of Orthodoxy.

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Patriarchal exarch celebrates services for the feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God in the Indonesian city of Bekasi.

22.09.2025

Will the Orthodox have their own "Pope"?

How one Ukrainian bishop had gone into a schism

Liturgy at sub-zero temperatures: the body is cold, but the heart is hot

Metropolitan Hilarion: The Lord entrusted us with the Church that has existed for a thousand years

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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill meets with representatives of Macedonian Orthodox Church in Holy Trinity and St. Sergius Lavra

Metropolitan Anthony meets with Russia’s Consul General in Erbil

Metropolitan Anthony takes part in the Assyrian Church of the East Conference dedicated to the First Ecumenical Council

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Ukrainian authorities seize Dormition Cathedral of UOC Volodymyr-Volynskyi Diocese

Schismatics seize a church building of the canonical Church in the village of Kerstentsy, Chernivtsi Region

Prayer service for the Russian Orthodox community was held in Abu Dhabi on the Feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos

DECR representative attends Interfaith Media Forum on The Role of Russia’s Traditional Religions in Preserving and Strengthening Spiritual and Moral Values

A monastic delegation of the Coptic Church arrives in Russia

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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'

Ukrainian authorities seize Dormition Cathedral of UOC Volodymyr-Volynskyi Diocese

UOC church in Brody, Lviv region, was seized

Schismatics seize a church building of the canonical Church in the village of Kerstentsy, Chernivtsi Region

Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the burial site of St. John the Theologian in Turkey on his commemoration day

Patriarchal exarch celebrates services for the feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God in the Indonesian city of Bekasi.

Visit of Deans of the Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa to Russia concludes

Orthodox hierarchs in Latin America make a statement on the terrorist attack at Mar Elias church in Damascus

Victims of the terrorist attack on the Orthodox church in Damascus are commemorated in Vienna

St. Elijah’s сhurch of Ukrainian Orthodox Church seized with police assistance in Bukovina Village of Zabolotye

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