ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE
Orthodox Metropolitanate
of Hong Kong and South East Asia
The Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong was founded with the decision of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 1996 after being detached from the Orthodox Metropolitanate of New Zealand. In the same year it was recognized by the Government of Hong Kong.
According to the amended Cap. 599G, starting from May 19, 2022, the restriction of the number of persons allowed in premises such as cinemas, performance venues, museums, event premises and religious premises etc. will be relaxed to 85 per cent of their capacity.
We ask for your cooperation to keep everyone safe:
The Divine Liturgy will be streamed live online via Saint Luke Orthodox Cathedral Hong Kong Facebook page on Sunday at 10.00 am.
The Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia carries out missionary work offering the testimony of the Orthodox faith, supporting the Orthodox Christians, foreigners and locals, who live in South East Asia, and presents dynamic activation on the fields of the social welfare, health and education.
Initially, the most ancient Fathers made this a Feast solely of the Martyrs who suffered throughout the world, as attested by the encomium of Saint John Chrysostom, in which he praises only the Martyrs. The later Fathers, however, made this Feast more general, calling it the “Sunday of All Saints”, including in it Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, Hierarchs, Ascetics, and all the Righteous together, of every age and race.
In the year of our Lord 1900, when the Empress Dowager reigned over the vast country of China and supported the Boxer Rebellion against all foreigners, two-hundred twenty Orthodox Christians in Peking died as martyrs, although a few others lost courage and renounced the truth of the Gospel. Leader of the martyrs was the Priest Metrophanes Tsi-Chung.
Metropolitan Sotirios of Pisidia fell asleep in the Lord.
On this day, the seventh Sunday of Pascha, we celebrate the First Ecumenical Synod, of the three hundred and eighteen God-bearing Fathers, which took place in Nicæa.
On this day, the sixth Sunday of Pascha, we commemorate the miracle wrought by our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ upon the man who was blind from his birth.
On this day, the fifth Sunday of Pascha, we commemorate the conversation of the Lord with the Samaritan woman.
On this day, the fourth Sunday of Pascha, we commemorate the Paralytic and, as is meet, we celebrate the miracle wrought for him.
Synaxarion for the Third Sunday of Pascha.
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Bartholomew
Message of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Regarding Covid-19
All you need to know if you live in Hong Kong or you plan to travel to the city.
TOWARD A SOCIAL ETHOS OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
A NEW DOCUMENT OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE
Official Announcement and Agreed Texts of the Synaxis of Primates of the Orthodox Churches
Regarding the Holy and Great Synod 2016.
Regarding the branding of Autocephaly to the Church of Ukraine
Discovering Orthodox Christianity is a series of talks, shows, and presentations designed to introduce and explain the basic teaching of Orthodox Christianity.
Non-Metropolis Clergy Requesting to Enter the Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and South East Asia
