The Cherkasy Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and its ruling hierarch, His Eminence Metropolitan Theodosy, have received a number of statements of condolences and support after Cherkasy’s Archangel Michael Cathedral was violently seized by anti-Orthodox bandits of the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine.”
The Romanian Orthodox Church held its annual Way of the Saints procession in honor of St. Demetrius the New, the patron saint of Bucharest and one of the most beloved Romanian saints, yesterday.
On October 23, 2024, Optina Pustyn celebrated a significant milestone with the consecration of a restored church dedicated to St. Leo of Catania and St. John of Rila.
The church’s story began in 1960, when His Beatitude Metropolitan Ireney blessed the establishment of the region’s first English-speaking Orthodox parish, initially serving a congregation largely composed of IBM employees who had relocated to the area.
The consecration marks the culmination of a journey that began in 2005 when a small group of families first established the mission to serve the Piedmont Triad area with English-language Orthodox services.