On the evening of the Holy Fathers’ Sunday (1.6.2025), an event was held at St. Nicholas Cathedral in Seoul to commemorate the historic 1700th anniversary of the convening of the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea (325). The event was attended by members of the NCCK, during which Metropolitan Ambrose...
Prot. No. 335 + B A R T H O L O M E W By God’s Mercy, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Romeand Ecumenical Patriarch To the Plenitude of the Church: May God’s Grace and Peace be with you! We offer a hymn...
On Wednesday, May 21, 2025, at St. Nicholas Cathedral in Seoul, Metropolitan Ambrosios of Korea and Exarch of Japan presided at the Baptismal Divine Liturgy on the feast of Sts. Constantine and Helen, Equal-to-the-Apostles, with co-celebrants Rev. Fr. Roman Kavchak, protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Throne, and Rev. Fr. Antonios Lim....
With God’s help, the Spring International Food Festival was held again this year with great success in the courtyard of St. Nicholas Cathedral in Seoul. The participation of a large number of people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, a wide variety of foods, dips, desserts and cookies from ten...
The Rev. Fr. Vasyl Pokhylets, a delegate from the Orthodox Metropolis of Korea and Exarchate of Japan, celebrated the Resurrection Service and the Divine Liturgy in the city of Nagoya, Japan. On Easter Sunday, he also visited Tokyo and, with Fr. Paul Koroluk, blessed the Easter eggs and Cake...
On Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 11:15 a.m., the Metropolitan of Korea and Exarch of Japan Ambrosios, accompanied by the Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Fr. Roman Kavchak and Fr. Anthonios Lim, the Dean of St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral visited the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Seoul to express condolences on...
Beginning on the evening of Palm Sunday, in every parish church of the Orthodox Metropolis of Korea, the Service of the Bridegroom was celebrated, marking the start of this year’s Holy Week—the journey to the Passion of Christ and His glorious Resurrection. Every day, morning and afternoon, the customary...
Holding laurels in our hands and celebrating the Holy Eucharist, the Lord granted us the blessing to welcome Him once again as He enters “voluntarily into His Passion.” Amid the joy of this Sunday, we welcomed the Lord into the Holy Jerusalem—His Church—and began the journey of Holy Week, the journey toward the Passion...
On Lazarus Saturday, during a baptismal Divine Liturgy, eleven of our brothers and sisters were received into the Orthodox Church through the holy Sacraments of Baptism and Chrismation. Following the Divine Liturgy, a reception was held, during which all attendees had the opportunity to congratulate and welcome the newly-illumined, and to offer them their best wishes for a life pleasing to...
