I am Fr. Roman Kavchak, a Ukrainian Orthodox priest and I live with my family in Korea for the last ten years. Ukraine is a beautiful and prosperous land located in the heart of Europe. Since time immemorial, this land has been inhabited by people who are hardworking, kind, and...
- Mar2022
Sunday of Orthodoxy in Korea
March 16, 2022
This year Sunday of Orthodox was celebrated in all the Parishes of the Orthodox Metropolis of Korea with two major problems: the coronavirus pandemic and the anxiety about the outcome of the fratricidal war in Ukraine. In the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Seoul, a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy was celebrated...
2022.3.14. Press conference for Ukrainian War Refugees
March 15, 2022
Whoever shoots the image of God, shoots Christ himself. On Monday, March 14, 2022, at a Press Conference held at the NCCK headquarters on the war in Ukraine, Metropolitan Ambrose of Korea made the following statement before more than fifty journalists from various Korean media: We have been...
On Sunday, March 6, 2022, at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Seoul, the Service of Orthros of the Cheese-Fare Sunday followed by the Divine Liturgy were presided over by the Metropolitan of Korea Ambrosios, assisted by Fr. Antonios Lim and Deacon Johan Park. After the Biblical Readings, the Catechitical...
2022.3.4. NCCK Prayer Ceremony for Peace in Ukraine
March 5, 2022
On Friday, March 4, 2022, Metropolitan Ambrosios of Korea, along with Fr. Roman Kavchak and his family, Fr. Antonios Lim and Deacon Johan Park, participated in the NCCK event at the Seoul Anglican Church for Peace in Ukraine. At the event, the Metropolitan of Korea was the keynote speaker, during...
Catechetical Homily at the opening of Holy and Great Lent (2022) + BARTHOLOMEW ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH
March 4, 2022
+ BARTHOLOMEW BY GOD’S MERCY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE-NEW ROME AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH TO THE PLENITUDE OF THE CHURCH, MAY THE GRACE AND PEACE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, TOGETHER WITH OUR PRAYER, BLESSING AND FORGIVENESS BE WITH YOU ALL * * * Most honorable brothers and blessed children...
- Feb2022
2022.2.1. Lunar New Year Divine Liturgy & Memorial Service
February 25, 2022
On February 1, 2022, the first day of the Lunar New Year, His Eminence, Metropolitan Ambrosios of Korea, presided over the Divine Liturgy at St Nicholas Cathedral in Seoul, which was followed by a memorial service for which each family prepared Koliva. Concelebrating with His Eminence were priests Roman Kavchak and...
On Thursday, January 21, 2022, the memory of Saint Maximos the Greek (Vatopaidinos) was commemorated at his homonymous church in Seoul. This church is the first church that was built after the canonization of St. Maximos under the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 1988. The foundation stone of the church was laid...
- Jan2022
Unbearable pain!
January 29, 2022
Never did I expect to experience such great pain in my declining years, as I felt with the announcement of the decisions of the Moscow Patriarchate to infiltrate—in a completely shameless way—the African continent, too! The plans of Panslavism and the idea of the Third Rome have been well known...
Christmas for the Slavophones in Korea
January 13, 2022
As every year, this year too, the great Feast of Christmas was celebrated on January 7 with brilliance and spiritual joy for the Slav-speakers living in Korea. The Metropolitan of Korea and Exarch of Japan Ambrosios officiated the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Seoul, accompanied by...