To the attention of pilgrims from the Russian Orthodox Church traveling to Greece, Cyprus and other countries

In 2018, as a result of the recognition by the Patriarchate of Constantinople of schismatic communities in Ukraine and the establishment of communion with them, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church stated the impossibility of "continuing Eucharistic communion with its hierarchs, clergy and laity. For all clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church, it is impossible to co-serve with the clerics of the Church of Constantinople, and for the laity - to participate in the sacraments performed in its churches"

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On the day of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Dormition Cathedral in London

On September 11, 2023, on the day of the Beheading of the Prophet John, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Dormition Cathedral in London.

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On the eve of the day of remembrance of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated an all-night vigil at the Dormition Cathedral in London

On the evening of September 10, 2023, on the eve of the day of сommemoration of the Beheading of the Holy and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated an all-night vigil at the Dormition Cathedral in London.

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Sunday school students of the Oxford Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker made a trip to London and visited an exhibition dedicated to the Shroud of Turin

On Sunday, September 10, 2023, Sunday school students of the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Oxford made a trip to the capital of Great Britain, where they visited an exhibition dedicated to the Shroud of Turin in the Anglican Church of All Saints, located in London's Notting Hill.

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On the 14th Sunday after Pentecost, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Liturgy at the Dormition Cathedral in London

On September 10, 2023, on the 14th Sunday after Pentecost, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Dormition Cathedral in London.

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On the eve of the 14th Sunday after Pentecost, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the all-night vigil at the Dormition Cathedral in London

On the evening of 9th September, 2023, on the eve of the 14th Sunday after Pentecost, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated an all-night vigil at the Dormition Cathedral in London.

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On the 45th anniversary of the repose of Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) of Leningrad and Novgorod, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh served a panikhida at the Dormition Cathedral in London

On September 5, 2023, on the 45th anniversary of the repose of Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov), His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, temporary Administrator of the Patriarchal parishes in the USA and Canada, served a panikhida for the ever-memorable hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, at the Dormition Cathedral in London.

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A pilgrimage took place to Holywell, to the spring of the holy martyr Winifred of Trefynnon (+630)

On September 3, 2023, with the blessing of His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, the annual pilgrimage of the clergy and parishioners of the diocesan district of Northern England and Wales of the Diocese of Sourozh to Holywell, to the spring of the holy martyr Winifred of Trefynnon (+630), took place.

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On the 13th Sunday after Pentecost, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Liturgy at the Dormition Cathedral in London

On September 3, 2023, on the 13th Sunday after Pentecost, the Synaxis of All Saints of Moscow, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Dormition Cathedral in London.

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On the feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh led the patronal celebrations of the Dormition Cathedral in London

On August 28, 2023, feast of the Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady, Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh led the patronal celebrations at the Dormition Cathedral in London.

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On the eve of the feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh officiated an all-night vigil at the Dormition Cathedral in London

On the evening of August 27, 2023, on the eve of the feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated an all-night vigil at the Dormition Cathedral in London.

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On the 12th Sunday after Pentecost, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Liturgy at the Dormition Cathedral in London

On August 27, 2023, on the 12th Sunday after Pentecost, the forefeast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Dormition Cathedral in London.

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On the eve of the 12th Sunday after Pentecost, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the all-night vigil at the Dormition Cathedral in London

On the evening of 26th August, 2023, on the eve of the 12th Sunday after Pentecost, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated an all-night vigil at the Dormition Cathedral in London.

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Moscow Theological Academy will offer online studies in English to future clergy and staff of parishes abroad

The Moscow Theological Academy announced the start of registration for an English-language online learning program.  The nine-month course will consist of seven fundamental disciplines of the Orthodox Theology academic program, including the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, dogmatic theology, patrology, basics of Orthodox liturgy, history of the Church and history of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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On the 11th Sunday after Pentecost, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Liturgy at the Dormition Cathedral in London

On August 20, 2023, on the 11th Sunday after Pentecost, the after-feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, the acquisition of the relics of St.  Mitrofan, Bishop of Voronezh (1832), His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Dormition Cathedral in London.

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On the eve of the 11th Sunday after Pentecost, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the all-night vigil at the Dormition Cathedral in London

On the evening of 19th August, 2023, on the eve of the 11th Sunday after Pentecost, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated an all-night vigil at the Dormition Cathedral in London.

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On the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Liturgy at the Dormition Cathedral in London

On August 19, 2023, on the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Dormition Cathedral in London.

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Bishop Matthew of Sourozh performed the funeral service for Archpriest Raphael Armor

On August 18, 2023, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Divine Liturgy and performed the funeral service for Archpriest Raphael Armour in the parish of St. Ephraim the Syrian in Cambridge.

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On the feast of the Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord, divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Dormition Cathedral in London

On the feast of the Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord, the feast of the All-Merciful Savior and the Most Holy Mother of God, the day of remembrance of the seven martyrs of Maccabees, their mother Solomonia and their teacher Eleazar, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Dormition Cathedral in London.

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On August 18, the funeral of Archpriest Raphael Armour, cleric of the Sourozh diocese, will take place

On August 18, 2023 in the parish of St. Ephraim the Syrian in Cambridge, the funeral for the newly departed cleric of the Sourozh diocese, Archpriest Raphael Armour, who died suddenly at the age of 77, will be held on July 25, 2023.

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