Eastern Catholicism

The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece on Tuesday issued a statement saying that individuals dressed as clerics who have been appearing on Greek television channels and speaking in support of the nationalist political grouping Convention of Greeks, founded by self-proclaimed billionaire Artemis Sorras, are not priests in the eyes of the Church.

His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia presided over the Divine Liturgy today at the St. Nicholas Hermitage in the northern Swedish city of Rättvik, followed by a memorial service for the hermitage’s founder, the ever-memorable Hieromonk Eusebios Vittis. Joining in the serves were the local Metropolis clergy and members of the local Church. The Very Rev. Fr.

Greek-American TV personality Maria Menounos has been at the side of her mother Litsa, since she was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Maria recently attended the liturgy at Saint Nektarios Greek Orthodox Church in Los Angeles and prayed for the recovery of her mother.

Fans of sports teams are so dedicated to their club we often resort to using religious terms to describe their dedication and love. They are the ‘faithful’, or the ‘followers’. It seems this particular AEK Athens baseball fan took it to a completely other level, or might have mixed up where he was at church of the basketball stadium. Whatever the case.

Pope Francis is under fire in Ukraine after his historic meeting with RussianOrthodox Patriarch Kirill, with the head of the country's Greek Catholic Church saying believers felt "betrayed".

Our Lady of Tinos church, considered the capital of religious tourism in Greece, draws flocks of the faithful to the Aegean island. They come come to pray for a miracle to their woes bringing tamata (votive offerings), usually trinkets made of precious metals.

A burglary of one of the most renowned Orthodox Churches in the Cyclades, the famed Panaghia Ekatontapiliani cathedral on the eponymous island of Paros, netted the suspect offerings worth… tens of thousands of euros, police said.

People in a village near the Crimean city of Sevastapol are flocking to see two orthodox icons that are reportedly bleeding. The two icons were handed to the local church by the mother of a young man who participated in the Donbas conflict. Drops of blood reportedly started appearing on the icons when the young man was killed in combat.

The annual Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church on Wednesday said it was relieving from duty its Canadian Bishop, Georgije Djokic, following complaints of misconduct and corruption.

Serbia's daily Blic newspaper reported that the Bishop has denied the charges, claiming that he turned round one of the Church's most neglected dioceses.

Head of the Serbian Orthodox Church's Dioecese of Canda Georgije (Djokic) has been relieved of his duties by the Holy Synod of the SPC.