Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Ecumenical Patriarch to Visit Refugees in Poland

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has been invited by Polish President His Excellency Andrzej Duda to visit Poland in order to bless,console and strengthen the Ukrainian refugees who have fled there from the Russian invasion of their country,according to a Communique issued by the Ecumenical Patriarchate.Patriarch Bartholomew was,at the same time,also invited to Poland by His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland,primate of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church (informally called the Orthodox Church of Poland).Accompanying Patriarch Bartholomew will be His Eminence Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon and the Very Reverend Grand Syncellus Iakovos Krochak.He will visit refugees staying in temporary shelters.* The Holy Synod of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church on 22 March 2022 called for the Russian Federation authorities,headed by President Vladimir Putin,to cease hostilities against Ukraine,which it considers wicked and incomprehensible,according to the statement it issued.* The Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church was granted autocephaly by the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 1924.It has 278 parishes,including a diocese in Brazil,and had 504,400 members as of 2016.*

Sunday, March 13, 2022

Panorthodox Synod : EU BISHOPS’ PRESIDENT APPEALS ON MOSCOW PATRIARCH ...

Panorthodox Synod : EU BISHOPS’ PRESIDENT APPEALS ON MOSCOW PATRIARCH ...:                                        The President of the EU Bishops, Cardinal Hollerich, addressed a letter to Moscow Patriarch Kirill ...