It has been 8 months since the ‘2022 Peace Rose Garden’ was created in the yard of St. Nicholas Cathedral on Saturday, September 24, 2022, with the donation and cooperation of the Korea Rose Society, in the hope of World peace and Justice. Yellow roses and blue flowers planted symbolizing...
With the permission of the Orthodox Metropolis of Korea, the Ethiopian Orthodox Community in Seoul organized an event for the children and their parents at the main Hall of the Metropolis. The event was held on Sunday, May 21, 2023, from 2 to 6:30 p.m. and about a hundred members...
On Saturday, May 20, 2023, the Baptism of Luke Robert Sauerberg took place at St. Maxim’s Chapel in Seoul. His parents Robert Sauerberg and Susan Park Seo-jeong came from America where they live to baptize their first child because the child’s mother is Orthodox. She is a member of the...
Sunday, May 14, 2023, was a special day in all the Parishes of the Orthodox Metropolis of Korea. Following the Divine Liturgy, a prayer of thanksgiving was held in each Parish for the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. The long duration of the pandemic, which began in China in December...
On Good Friday 2023, after the Service of the Great Hours, those who participated in the decoration of the Epitaphios had the unique opportunity to see the unveiling of the mosaic in the courtyard fountain of St. Nicholas Cathedral in Seoul. The mosaic is a copy of the magnificent mosaic...
With feelings of unceasing praise to God, and spiritual uplift, all the parishes of the Orthodox Metropolis of Korea celebrated the Lord’s Passion and glorious Resurrection. After the many obstacles during the three previous years due to the pandemic, for the first time during this year’s Holy Week...
On April 15th, (Holy Saturday) four Catechumens became Orthodox Christians at St. Paul’s Church in Incheon through the Sacraments of Baptism and Chrismation. Their names are: Stella Willis, Victor Tom, Tatianna Tom, and Gabriel Michaelovich We express our heartfelt congratulations to all of them and pray that the four newly illumined...
PROT. NO. 221 + B A R T H O L O M E W By God’s Mercy Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch To the Plenitude of the Church: May the Grace, Peace and Mercy of Christ Risen in Glory be with you All Most honorable brother Hierarchs,...
The joyous feast of Palm Sunday was celebrated on April 9, 2023, at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Seoul, as well as in all the parishes of the Metropolis of Korea, with a large participation of Orthodox believers of different national backgrounds. After the end of the Divine Liturgy,...
On Lazarus Saturday, April 8, 2023, during the baptismal Divine Liturgy, the following Catechumen received the Sacraments of Holy Baptism and Chrismation at Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Seoul: Nicholas Hush, Katerina Shin, Dionysii Kim, Nadezhda Shegai, Nikitas Shin and Bogdan Samarin. After the end of the Divine Liturgy, the Metropolitan...
