Author: OCP

Bulgarian Church Protests Legal Recognition of Old Calendar Group

OCP- January 1, 2025

OCP News Service – 01/01/2025 Sofia – Bulgaria: On December 30, 2024, the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church issued a statement categorically protesting ... Read More

Preparation for Epiphany Celebrations Disrupted: Over 70 Detained in South Ethiopia

OCP- December 31, 2024

ESG – OCP News Service – 31/12/2024 Addis Ababa- Ethiopia: In a troubling turn of events within Ethiopia before Theophany, more than 70 clergy and ... Read More

Archimandrite Job (Pokhivky) Consecrated as the Bishop of Kitsman

OCP- December 29, 2024

uoc-news.church OCP News Service – 29/12/2024 Kyiv – Ukraine: Archimandrite Job (Pokhivky) was consecrated as the Bishop of Bishop of Kitsman, Vicar of the Chernivtsi-Bukovyna ... Read More

More than 590 Orthodox Christians Killed in East Gojjam Diocese in Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia

OCP- December 29, 2024

43rd Annual Parish Council Meeting of East Gojjam Diocese Priest Kokeb Takele ESG – OCP News Service – 29/12/2024 Addis Ababa- Ethiopia:  During the 43rd ... Read More

Metropolitan Hilarion Relieved from the Budapest-Hungarian Diocese and Retired

OCP- December 29, 2024

OCP News Service – 29/12/2024 Moscow – Russia: The Synod decided to relieve His Grace Metropolitan Hilarion of his duties as head of the Budapest-Hungarian ... Read More

Pope Tawadros II Expresses Solidarity with Patriarch John X Amidst Syrian Crisis

OCP- December 28, 2024

OCP News Service – 28/12/2024 Damascus – Syria: On December 26,2024, Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, ... Read More

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Meets President Erdoğan in Ankara

OCP- December 27, 2024

ec-patr.org OCP News Service – 2/712/2024 Constantinople – Turkey: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Istanbul, met today with Turkish President Recep ... Read More

Pope Tawadros II Greets Patriarch Theodoros II on Christmas

OCP- December 26, 2024

OCP News Service – 26/12/2024 Cairo -Egypt: On Wednesday, December 25, 2024, His Holiness Pope Tawadros II extended his congratulations to His Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros ... Read More

Patriarch John X Receives Envoy of New Syrian Administration

OCP- December 25, 2024

OCP News Service – 25/12/2024 Damascus – Syria: Patriarch John X, head of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch, received a delegation from the new ... Read More

Archimandrite Bogoslov (Dimitrov) Consecrated as the Vicar Bishop of Stara Zagora

OCP- December 23, 2024

OCP News Service – 23/12/2024 Sofia – Bulgaria: On December 22,2024, in the cathedral church "St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of Myra" in Stara Zagora, the ... Read More