On Wednesday, September 27, 2023, the professor of systematic theology at the Theological School of Saint Vladimir, USA, Dr. Peter Bouteneff, at the initiative of the Orthodox Metropolis of Korea, gave a three-hour lecture at Seoul National University on the topic: “Doctrine, Ethos, Art of the Orthodox Church”. The last...
Two American youths aged 25 and 26, Alexander Thomas Uman and Anna Josephine Gallegos came from America to have their wedding ceremony in the Orthodox Metropolis of Korea. The Sacrament of their Marriage was performed on Sunday, September 24, 2023, following the Divine Liturgy and the Sunday Agape Meal in...
The weekend of September 9 and 10 was very special for more than 20 Slavic-speaking parishioners of the church of St. Maximos the Greek in Seoul, who made a pilgrimage to the newly built church of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Jeonju. The trip began with a prayer at...
On Sunday, September 10, 2023, a Retreat was held at the Parish of the Apostle Paul in Incheon. The Retreat took place after the Divine Liturgy and mainly young people participated. The priest of the Parish, Rev. Father Daniel Na Chang-gyu introduced the topic “Cooperation of God and Man”. The...
The death of a fellow human being, and especially a sudden one, rarely can have as many missionary dimensions and impact as the death of a faithful Greek young man had in Korea. The group of iconographers from Greece with their Greek, Korean and Taiwanese assistants, forty in number, were...
On Sunday, September 3, 2023, the Metropolitan of Korea and Exarch of Japan Ambrosios performed the Divine Liturgy in Tokyo with Father Paul Koroluk. In his sermon, the Metropolitan said the following: Today’s apostolic reading marks the end of St. Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. At the beginning of...
The following video presents: First, the project of the iconography of the Holy Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Jeonju City, which took place from July 17 to August 8, 2023. Second, the ministry of the Orthodox Metropolis of Korea in the 25th World Scout Jamboree, which took...
Prot. No. 496 † 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 GRACE, PEACE AND MERCY FROM THE MAKER OF ALL CREATION OUR LORD GOD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST * *...
On Sunday, August 27, 2023, Father Romanos Kavchak performed the Βaptism of fifteen Slavic speakers in the baptistry of the holy church of Saint Maximos the Greek in Seoul. After the Sacraments of Baptism and Chrismation and while singing the hymn: “Those who have been baptized in Christ have put...
The great feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos was celebrated again this year with spiritual joy in all the Parishes of the Orthodox Metropolis of Korea. This year, however, it was celebrated with particular splendor at the Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos in the city of Jeonju....
