Submit a report for publication on the Diocesan web site

Clergy and authorised parish representatives may use this form to submit an article / report for publication on the Diocesan web site. Reports are sought for activities in parish life that are of spiritual and practical interest to others throughout the Diocese and more broadly, including such things as:

Reports of recent activities in parish life:

This is the most important category of publication on the Diocesan site, and reading about activities in your parish is encouraging and unifying to readers all across the Diocese. It is desired that every parish should seek to share news of some aspect of their life on a monthly basis; reports should be submitted no later than four days after an event has taken place, so as to ensure that news is timely when published.  Such reports may include, for example:

• Festal celebrations of Altar Feasts or significant parish anniversaries
• Activities involving parish youth or children
• Parish pilgrimages, especially those involving local saints and the regional Orthodox heritage
• Concerts, plays, or other social events taking place in the parish
• Conferences, talks or other events taking place in the parish, or in which parish clergy or faithful have taken part
• Building works, renovations, or notable updates to the iconography, decoration and beautification of the parish temple or grounds
• Holding of annual Parish Assemblies or other notable meetings
• Charitable activities undertaken by the parish (e.g. foodbanks, hospital or prison ministries)
• Publication of materials by the clergy or faithful of the parish (e.g. new books, articles, interviews)
• Notable visitations of guest clergy, as blessed by the Bishop
• Interaction with social events as blessed by the Bishop (e.g. the 'March for Life', gatherings for peace)

Announcements of future activities:

The Diocesan site can also be very helpful in announcing forthcoming events that will be of interest beyond the borders of just your own parish. While the Diocesan site is not used to announce purely local activities in each parish, it should certainly be used to announce the following kinds of future activities:

• Parish pilgrimages, on which faithful from other parishes or dioceses are welcome to join
• Significant forthcoming parish anniversaries (e.g. 100 years, 25 years), to which the parish seeks to invite participation by clergy and faithful from a wider region
• Conferences, talks, concerts or other activities that will be open to the broader public
• Summer camps, youth activities or suchlike events that are open for registration by faithful outside the parish

Appeals for support:

The Diocesan web site may also be used to convey announcements about appeals made by parishes, though these need to be discussed in advance with the Ruling Bishop. Such might include:

• Fundraising appeals for the purchase of a new temple, or its renovation
• Special appeals for charitable aid for causes dear to the parish

How to submit your report for publication on the site:

Use the form below to submit your report for publication on the Diocesan web site. Try to provide as much information as possible, in the correct style, so as to enable swift publication; but by all means, the following instructions must be followed:

• You may submit your materials in English, Russian and/or French. Submitting it already in multiple of these languages will accelerate the timeframe in which your text can be published, but this is not necessary: if you submit your material in one language only, the Chancellery will arrange for its translation into the others.
• All submissions must include a TITLE as well as the main article CONTENT. You should familiarise yourself with the 'house style' for announcements on the web site, and compose your text in a similar style — though the Chancellery will always engage in some editing to assist with this. But some general style rules include:
  • Refer to clergy by their titles (Archpriest, Priest, Hieromonk, etc.), not by styles of address (Father). Monks/Nuns, Bishops and Saints are not referred to with a surname, except in certain instances. When required, surnames are provided in brackets: e.g. 'Hieromonk John (Ivanov)'.

    • Names of laypersons whose names are Slavic must always be provided with name, PATRONYMIC and surname in the first instance, and then name+patronymic thereafter. It is never appropriate to provide Russian names without patronymic. English names should be provided with appropriate title (Mr, Mrs, Miss, etc.).

  • In English, use only standard spellings of ecclesial terms (e.g. 'icon' not 'ikon'; 'matins' not 'mattins').
  • Provide both Old- and New-Calendar forms for all dates, with the old first, then the new, separate by a slash: e.g. '1 / 14 JUNE 2026', '25 APRIL / 7 MAY 2026'.
• All submissions must include at least one photograph, which will be used as its header image and in circulation. Ideally, more images should be provided; multiple images will be turned into a gallery included with your article. General photograph rules are:
  • An image intended to be the header image is best in landscape (wide) rather than portrait (tall) orientation, based on how it will be formatted on the page; images for the gallery can be in both orientations.
  • All clergy included in the photograph must be in proper dress (e.g. ryassa at all parish events; correctly vested at services); and all faithful in the photograph must also be correctly dressed (e.g. no shorts, women's heads must be covered)
  • Photographs that focus on groups of people are always favoured over those that focus on individuals, even if the latter are clergy or Hierarchs: photographs that include faithful at prayer, at meals, at pilgrimage sites, etc., are always of most interest.

Submit your report: