• 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...

  • Celebrating the memory of St. Maximos the Greek (Vatopedinos) in Korea

    February 3, 2022

    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...

  • Services at St. Nicholas Cathedral for Christmas, New Years, and Theophany

    January 11, 2022

    The Metropolitan of Korea and Exarch of Japan Ambrosios officiated the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Seoul, accompanied by the priests Fr. Romanos Kavchak, Fr. Antonios Lim and Deacon Johan Park, Friday 24 December 2021                  Service of the...

  • A Joyous Afternoon at St Dionysios Orthodox Church in Ulsan

    January 7, 2022

    In this special season when we celebrate Christ the Light of the World becoming a human being and renewing all creation, it has been our great joy to welcome Jihye-Angeliki into the family of God! On Sunday afternoon January 2nd, 2022, Angeliki was baptized into Christ, becoming a new creation...

  • Metropolitan Ambrosios of Korea – 2022 New Year Message

    January 1, 2022

    Beloved Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, Immediately after the timely and redeeming Feast of the Holy Nativity, the wondrous Entry of our Lord Jesus Christ into human history, we now celebrate the beginning of the New Year. Every New Year’s Day is primarily a time to offer praise and thanksgiving to...

  • Dec2021

    Metropolitan Ambrosios of Korea – CHRISTMAS MESSAGE 2021

    December 25, 2021

      “We have found the Truth” My dear Brothers and Sisters in the Lord,   Before the Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, people all over the world were seekers of Truth. Humanity’s driving question, whether consciously or unconsciously, had always been about the Truth. And, of course, pre-Christian civilizations...

  • 2021 Christmas Message – + B A R T H O L O M E W BY GOD’S MERCY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE-NEW ROME

    December 24, 2021

    Prot. No. 773 PATRIARCHAL ENCYCLICAL FOR CHRISTMAS + B A R T H O L O M E W BY GOD’S MERCY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE-NEW ROME AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH TO ALL THE PLENITUDE OF THE CHURCH GRACE, MERCY AND PEACE FROM THE SAVIOR CHRIST BORN IN BETHLEHEM * * *...

  • The Celebration of the Feast of St. Dionysios in Ulsan

    December 24, 2021

    This year again, through the intercessions of St. Dionysios, Archbishop of Aegina, the celebration of his Feast day was held at our church of St. Dionysios in Ulsan with the participation of several Faithful and Catechumen. All sanitary measures against the pandemic were carefully observed. The celebration was presided over...