Category: Featured News

High-Level Meeting Fosters Closer Ties Between Russian Orthodox Church and Malankara Orthodox Church

OCP- June 30, 2024

DECR – OCP News Service – 30/06/2024 Moscow – Russia: On June 27, 2024, Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church ... Read More

Patriarch Kirill Welcomes Released Ukrainian Metropolitan Jonathan

OCP- June 26, 2024

foto.patriarchia.ru DECR – OCP News Service – 26/06/2024 Moscow – Russia: His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' received Metropolitan Jonathan of Tulchin and Bratslav ... Read More

Attacks in Dagestan Leave Trail of Grief: Priest Martyred, Civilians and Officers Killed

OCP- June 24, 2024

OCP News Service – 24/06/2024 Moscow- Russia: On June 23, 2024, plunged Dagestan into chaos as a series of seemingly coordinated terror attacks struck the ... Read More

Imprisoned Metropolitan Jonathan Released After Moscow Patriarchate Negotiations, Travels to Moscow for Treatment

OCP- June 23, 2024

DECR and OCP News Service – 23/06/2024 Kyiv – Ukraine: Metropolitan Jonathan of Tulchin and Bratslav, a high-ranking cleric in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow ... Read More

Ukrainian Court Upholds Prison Sentence for Metropolitan Jonathan of Tulchyn and Bratslav

OCP- June 19, 2024

Metropolitan Jonathan of Tulchyn and Bratslav DECR and OCP News Service – 19/06/2024 Kyiv – Ukraine: In a decision drawing criticism from religious leaders, the ... Read More

Metropolitan Tikhon of Orthodox Church in America Completes Visit to Ukraine

OCP- June 5, 2024

church.ua OCP News Service – 05/06/2024 Kyiv – Ukraine: His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada, the Primate of the Orthodox Church in ... Read More

Metropolitan Tikhon of All America Affirms Support for Ukrainian Orthodox Church

OCP- June 2, 2024

church.ua OCP News Service – 02/06/2024 Kyiv – Ukraine: In a show of solidarity, His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America ... Read More

Metropolitan Arseniy of Ukrainian Orthodox Church Arrested on Treason Charges

OCP- May 11, 2024

Metropolitan Arseniy OCP News Service – 10/05/2024 Kyiv – Ukraine: Metropolitan Arseniy, the abbot of the Holy Dormition Sviatohirsk Lavra, a prominent monastery in eastern ... Read More

Ukrainian Orthodox Church Denounces Draft Law, Cites Rights Violations and Seeks International Support

OCP- April 12, 2024

church.ua Information and Education Department of UOC – OCP News Service – 12/04/2024 Kyiv – Ukraine: The Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) issued a ... Read More

Former Metropolitan of Archdiocese of North America Joseph Zehlaoui Defrocked by Holy Synod

OCP- March 16, 2024

OCP News Service – 16/03/2024 Balamand- Lebanon: The Holy Synod of the Antiochian Orthodox Church has defrocked retired Metropolitan Joseph Zehlaoui, stripping him of his ... Read More