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Ordination of another Subdeacon
Abba Seraphim, Metropolitan of Glastonbury, accompanied by his Coadjutor, Abba James, travelled to the Church of Christ the Saviour in Bournemouth to celebrate the Liturgy for the second Sunday in...
View ArticleUkrainian pastoral support
When His Beatitude Abba Seraphim, supported by Abba James, officiated at the British Orthodox Church of SS. Alban & Athanasius at Chatham, on Sunday, 10th April, he was delighted to administer the...
View ArticleOrthodox Palm Sunday celebrated in Portsmouth
On 9:00 am on Sunday, 17th April (the Western Easter) His Beatitude Abba Seraphim, again assisted by Abba James, celebrated the Morning Raising of Incense, followed by the Divine Liturgy for the...
View ArticleAbba Seraphim attended Greenwich Churches Thanksgiving Service for the...
At Noon on Thursday, 2 June, His Beatitude Abba Seraphim, Metropolitan of Glastonbury attended a Thanksgiving Service for H.M. the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee which was held at St. Alfege Church,...
View ArticlePastoral concern and ministry
Abba Seraphim has frequently visited his second cousin, Keith Francis Watson, now aged eighty, who lives in the Earlham Road Care House for mental health needs, in Wood Green, London, N22, which is...
View ArticleDivine Liturgy celebrated at Portsmouth
As Archdeacon Antony Holland for health reasons has given up driving to our Bournemouth Church, Abba Seraphim, accompanied by Abba James, has now celebrated a Sunday Divine Liturgy for him in the...
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Death of Metropolitan Kallistos Ware
Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/15280854015 On 24 August 2022 the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Kallistos Ware died, aged 87 years. He had been born in Bath, Somerset, as Timothy Richard...
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Romanian Orthodox Ordained as a Reader
Father John Ives, Cristian Craciun and Abba Seraphim Whilst officiating on Sunday, 18th September at our Bournemouth Church, Abba Seraphim was assisted by his Coadjutor, Abba James, and Father John...
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Ordination of a Reader at Chatham Church
On Sunday, 9 October Abba Seraphim performed the ordination of David Bolatiwa of Gillingham, Kent, as a Reader at St. Alban & Sr. Athanasius Orthodox Church in Chatham. Although he was born at...
View ArticleHoly Pascha
The Orthodox Feast of Holy Pascha in 2023 is Sunday, 16th April, a week after the Roman Catholic & Anglican Easter. Palm Sunday is on 9th April, which is the Seventh Sunday in Lent and the Orthodox...
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