Tag: Poland

Primate of the Russian Church answers questions from Polish journalists

OCP- August 16, 2012

On August 14, 2012, in anticipation of his visit to Poland on Thursday, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with Polish ... Read More

Patriarch Kirill’s visit to Poland: provocations as obstacles on the way to Russo-Polish reconciliation

OCP- August 12, 2012

12/8/2012 Dmitry Babich The unprecedented visit of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox church, reverend Kirill, to Poland is going to be a historic occasion. ... Read More

Russian patriarch Kirill to visit Poland in August

OCP- July 16, 2012

The Associated Press 16/7/2012 WARSAW, Poland -- Polish Catholic church is preparing to welcome the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to Poland in August, ... Read More

Cleric dubs obsessed fans ‘monkeys’

OCP- June 20, 2012

Reuters 19/6/2012 KIEV - Soccer fans are getting into a sinful frenzy and transforming themselves into "monkeys" by watching Euro 2012 matches, a senior Ukrainian ... Read More

Results of 31st Hajnówka Church Music Festival

OCP- June 2, 2012

The Polish Orthodox Church Maria Nalewajko 1/6/2012 The Jury of 31st International Festival Hajnówka Orthodox Church Music Days 2012 has given the following prizes: Category ... Read More

Celebrating the Feast of Ascension in Jerusalem

OCP- May 18, 2012

18/5/2012 Visit Travelujah-Holy Land Tours for attractive packages For Christians around the world, today marks the Feast of the Ascension, known as the Solemnity of ... Read More

Watch a documentary about archimandrite Gabriel online!

OCP- April 19, 2012

Michał Kalina Polish Orthodox Church 18.04.2012 Archimandrite Gabriel – an Orthodox monk from the Podlasie province in Poland – is the founder and sole inhabitant ... Read More

Roman Catholic, Orthodox leaders reach accord on reconciliation between Poland and Russia

OCP- March 19, 2012

16/3/2012 Representatives of the Roman Catholic Church and the Russian have reached agreement on a joint statement calling for reconciliation between the people of Russia ... Read More

15th-century frescoes identified in Polish church, money being raised to restore them

OCP- February 29, 2012

29/2/2012 WARSAW, Poland — Frescoes discovered on the walls of an Orthodox Church in Poland have been identified as 15th-century art works, and funds are ... Read More

Patriarch Cyril will visit Poland

OCP- November 29, 2011

Michał Kalina 23.11.2011 Metropolitan Sawa yesterday ended his visit in Russia. During the visit he invited Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus Cyril to visit ... Read More

Metropolitan Kallistos will visit Poland

OCP- November 10, 2011

Szymon Krzyszczuk 31.10.2011 Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) on 11-21 November will stay in Poland. He accepted the invitation made by the employees of the University of ... Read More

Archons deliver Religious Freedom Presentations for the Ecumenical Patriarchate to OSCE

OCP- November 9, 2011

Warsaw, Poland 11/8/2011 On behalf of the Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle, Archons Theofanis Economidis and Achilles Adamantiades, Ph.D., presented two papers at the ... Read More

Warsaw to have first Polish Orthodox church in 100 Years

OCP- September 28, 2011

27.09.2011 Poland's capital will soon have its first new Eastern Orthodox church in one hundred years. Archbishop Sawa of Warsaw, who is head of the ... Read More

Nineteenth anniversary of the transfer of the relics of St. Gabriel

OCP- September 26, 2011

The Polish Orthodox Church Wiaczesław Perek 24.09.2011 September 22 marks the anniversary of the transfer of the relics of St. Martyr Gabriel from Hrodna to ... Read More

Poland’s Holy Hill of Grabarka draws Orthodox Christian Pilgrims

OCP- August 21, 2011

By Gabriela Baczynska in Grabarka, Poland 20/8/2011 Some 15,000 Orthodox Christian pilgrims carried crosses, drank holy water and prayed on Friday at a hill in ... Read More

President joins Orthodox Pilgrimage

OCP- August 21, 2011

19.08.2011 The Polish Orthodox Church President Komorowski has joined several thousand Orthodox Church believers taking part in the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, ... Read More

Armenian Pontiff Receives President of Poland

OCP- August 1, 2011

Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin 29/7/2011 On July 29, in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of ... Read More

Poland Rescues Christian Refugees

OCP- June 21, 2011

20/6/2011 Christian Persecution in Africa WARSAW/BUDAPEST (Worthy News)-- Poland has granted asylum to 16 Christian refugees who accompanied Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski on a flight ... Read More

Metropolitan Hilarion visited Poland

OCP- June 8, 2011

Russian-Polish Orthodox Churches 1.06.2011 On 31 May 2011, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), was on ... Read More

Ecumenical all night vigil in Warsaw

OCP- January 27, 2011

Karina Michaluk 24.01.2011 "Only with mutual understanding and respect, by mutual enrichment, without forcing the partner to no longer represent their views (...) only the ... Read More

Meeting with the President

OCP- January 17, 2011

The Polish Orthodox Church Maria Nalewajko 12.01.2011 On 11th January Polish President Bronisław Komorowski has met with representatives of Polish Orthodox Church. Metropolitan Sawa was ... Read More