At midday on Thursday, 18 June, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew received the Director of the Patriarchal Great School of the Nation, Mr Dimitrios Zotos, together with this year’s graduating high school students, to whom he presented pectoral crosses as a blessing and encouragement for the successful course of their future lives. His All-Holiness welcomed…

After 55 years, the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s request for the reopening of the Theological School of Halki is moving toward a successful conclusion and, as Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon stated exclusively to parapolitika.gr, “the ball is finally rolling.” Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel is the second-ranking hierarch of the Ecumenical Throne and the closest and most trusted…

The Ecumenical Patriarchate issued an official communiqué announcing the repose in the Lord of the late Metropolitan Theoleptos of Iconium: “The Ecumenical Patriarch and the Hierarchs residing in the City announce with deepest sorrow the falling asleep in the Lord of the ever-memorable METROPOLITAN OF ICONIUM THE LATE THEOLEPTOS At the Patriarchate, 18 June 2026…

In hospitable Finland, and particularly in its capital, Helsinki, the attention of Orthodox parliamentarians from around the world was focused on the 33rd General Assembly of the Interparliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy (IAO), which is being held from 17 to 21 June 2026. The main theme of the Assembly is: “The Position and Protection of Christian…

With profound gratitude to God and deep humility before the sacred calling entrusted to him, His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa this year commemorates the 36th anniversary of his episcopal consecration. On 17 June 1990, the late Patriarch Parthenios III ordained the then-Archimandrite Theodore as Bishop of Cyrene, beginning…

The Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem expressed grave concern over the Israeli raid and land grab targeting its Church property in Silwan on June 15, 2026. During the operation, the Patriarchate’s representative was forcibly removed, his equipment was confiscated, trees were uprooted, and the property was enclosed with fencing and gates. The Patriarchate said the incident…

By the initiative, prayers, efforts, and moral and material support of His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, the process of printing the Holy Bible—the Old and New Testaments—in the Arabic language has been successfully completed, in cooperation with the Bible Society of the Holy Land, for the free distribution thereof to…

The feast of Saint Tychon, Bishop of Amathus, was celebrated with ecclesiastical splendour at the church dedicated to him in the community of Saint Tychon, Limassol. At the festal Great Vespers, His Eminence Metropolitan Ioustinos of Nea Krini and Kalamaria presided, with the concelebration of His Grace Bishop Nikolaos of Amathus. A large number of…

His Eminence Elder Metropolitan Dimitrios of the Princes’ Islands presided over the Divine Liturgy on Sunday, 14 June, at the Community Church of Saint John the Forerunner on the Island of Antigoni, in the Province of the Princes’ Islands, on the feast of Saint Methodios the Confessor, the glorious Patriarch of Constantinople, whose prison cell,…