The OCA’s Diocese of Chicago and the Midwest is holding a series of events throughout 2024 to mark the 20th anniversary of the icon’s return.
In another move against Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Kiev City Council voted yesterday to give the land plots on which the Holy Dormition-Kiev Caves Lavra to the state-run National Preserve for use.
Upon completion of the archaeological work, architectural-historical, anthropological, isotopic and medical-forensic studies were carried out, by which it was established that the remains reliably belong to St. Jonah (†1534).
The Monastery of the She Who Ripens the Grain Icon of the Mother of God in Sredneuralsk has reopened, three years after it was closed amidst a controversy surrounding its founder and spiritual father, the former Schema-Igumen Sergei Romanov.
Priest Kirill Zholtkevich
My spiritual training began with my grandfather, a priest. He took me into the altar when I was four. Since then I have been in church and have always been surrounded by clergy.