Patriarchal Encyclical for Christmas (2025)
December 25, 2025+ B A R T H O L O M E W By God’s Mercy Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch
Congratulations to Vicar Archimandrite Alexander on the Day of His Patron Saint
December 25, 2025Dear beloved in the Lord, Archimandrite Alexander!
FLORIDA. In Jacksonville prayerfully celebrated the 15th anniversary of St. John’s Church.
November 23, 2025Jacksonville is the first city in Florida that welcomes travelers arriving from the northern states. In 2010 a mission was founded here that eventually grew into a church consecrated in honor of St. John (Maximovich), Archbishop of Shanghai and San... Read more...
The Miami Cathedral celebrated the 10th anniversary of its consecration on the feast day of its heavenly patroness
November 22, 2025November 22, the day of commemoration of the Holy Righteous Matrona of Moscow, is the patronal feast of the cathedral. This year the parish marked two joyful milestones: 14 years since the opening of the new church building and 10... Read more...
Congratulations to Father Ivan Kovach on his 40th birthday
November 21, 2025To the Reverend Priest Ivan Kovach Rector of the Parish of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in Dallas, Texas Your Reverence, dear Father Ivan, On this bright and joyous day, when by God’s mercy you have reached the... Read more...
The Vicar congratulated Archbishop Elpidophoros on His Name Day
November 2, 2025On November 2, according to the New Julian Calendar, the Church commemorates the memory of the Holy Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus, and Anempodistus of Persia, along with the 7,000 saints who suffered with them in the 4th century.
Clergy of the Slavic Vicariate participated in Patriarch Bartholomew’s meeting with clergy of the American Archdiocese
September 23, 2025On September 23, a Patriarchal audience and meeting with hierarchs, clergy, and monastics of the American Archdiocese took place at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in New York.
A meeting of the clergy of the Slavic Orthodox Vicariate of America was held in Brooklyn
September 23, 2025On September 23, after a meeting with His All-Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew, a meeting of the clergy of the Slavic Vicariate was held at St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Brooklyn.
The Slavic Vicariate congratulates Fr. Alexander Karlutsos on his elevation to the rank of Grand Protopresbyter
September 21, 2025On September 21, during the Divine Liturgy at the Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God in Hampton, before a crowd of nearly 500, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew announced conferring the title Megas Protoprebyteros of the Holy... Read more...
The Vicar took part in the meeting between Patriarch Bartholomew and the Hierarchs of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the U.S.
September 21, 2025On September 20, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew continued his Apostolic Visit to the U.S. at Dormition of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church of the Hamptons in Southampton, New York.
Patriarch Bartholomew met privately with President Donald Trump
September 16, 2025On September 15, 2025, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew met privately with President of the United States Donald Trump in the Oval Office. The Ecumenical Patriarch and His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America arrived by motorcade at the North Lawn... Read more...
Congratulations to the spiritual father of the Vicariate, Protopresbyter Olexander Belya, on his name day
September 12, 2025Dear Father Olexander!