Luanda, Angola, January 14, 2025 – Another non-canonical community in Africa has joined the Russian Orthodox Church’s African Exarchate. On January 5, in the Angolan capital of Luanda, Fr. Rafael Da Conceiaco celebrated the Baptism of 27 local residents. Then he celebrated “the rite of joining the Orthodox Church for more than 200 believers who…
Souroti, Thessaloniki, Greece, January 14, 2025 – Yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of the glorification of one of the greatest elders of the 20th century and one of the most revered saints of the Orthodox Church today. On Elder Paisios of Mount Athos CanonizedAfter careful study of the reported facts, the Synod unanimously included Schemamonk…
Vilnius, January 14, 2025 – His Eminence Metropolitan Chrysostom (Martishkin), who led the Moscow Patriarchate’s Diocese of Vilnius and Lithuania from 1990 to 2010, reposed in the Lord on Christmas Eve, January 6. The Metropolitan was 90 years old when he reposed, the diocese reports. The current Metropolitan, His Eminence Innokenty, spoke of his predecessor…
Uganda, January 15, 2025 – More than 50 were baptized in the Diocese of Gulu. A series of mass Baptisms were celebrated in Uganda during the Nativity season. On Saturday, January 4, a new parish of the Patriarchate of Alexandria was formally established in Bugiri, with the Baptism of 17 catechumens, including both children and…
Belgrade, January 14, 2025 – The primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church feasted with the less fortunate in Belgrade on January 7, in honor of the great feast of the Nativity of Christ. His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije visited the Religious Charitable Care Facility, where he ate with the homeless and beneficiaries of the Church’s soup…
