St Ignatius Antiochian Orthodox Church
Belfast, United Kingdom
Dear brothers and sisters, On Wednesday, 24 September, the Feast of St Silouan the Athonite, our Father and Chief Shepherd, His Eminence Metropolitan Silouan, celebrates his Name Day. The traditional form of addressing a bishop in the Orthodox Church is “Master”, translated into Arabic Read More
Dear brothers and sisters, We held our regular monthly services at the parish on the first weekend of August. Glory to God for a beautiful weekend of services and fellowship at our parish of St Ignatius of Antioch in Belfast! Read More
On Sunday, 8th June, we celebrated the Great Feast of Holy Pentecost at our parish. This time, we had a special blessing: the Divine Liturgy was served using prosphora — the bread of offering that is concecrated to become the Read More
Christ is Risen, dear brothers and sisters! We had a beautiful weekend of services for the 5th Sunday after Pascha, Sunday of the Samaritan Woman. On Saturday, we celebrated Great Vespers, followed by a lovely time of fellowship over tea Read More
Dear brothers and sisters, I wish you all a blessed Feast of St Patrick, the Enlightener of Ireland! You can read about his life here: https://orthodoxwiki.org/Patrick_of_Ireland We are truly blessed to have such a great saint as our patron and Read More
On the weekend of the 1st and 2nd of March, our community gathered for the regular monthly divine services. Sunday was the Sunday of Forgiveness, marking the beginning of the Great Lent. At the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy, with the blessing Read More
Dear friends in Christ, Blessed Feast of the Presentation of our Lord in the Temple! It was a joy to see many people in attendance at the church over the weekend 1st and 2nd of February for our regular monthly Read More
Dear friends in Christ, Wishing you a blessed new week. This is the third weekly Newsletter of St Ignatius Parish in Belfast. Content of this newsletter: Unity in Christ ⁃ Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I Read More
On the weekend of January 11th and 12th, regular monthly divine services resumed at our parish. Glory to God! On Saturday, January 11th, with the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Silouan, Fr Dmitry celebrated the Great Sanctification of the Water, Read More