Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met on Thursday with the European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner at the Maximos Mansion. “We are satisfied with the progress that has been made at the European level in terms of shaping a new balance in our overall European migration policy, in the direction of protecting the…

With due religious reverence and splendour, the transfer of the Holy Icon of the Saint from the Sacred House to the Icon stand at the Central Gate of the Fortress was celebrated in Ioannina, as well as the Great Vespers on the feast of the Protector and Patron Saint of the city, Saint George the…

On Thursday afternoon, 16 January 2025, His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia, accompanied by the Archimandrite Bartholomew Iatridis, Parish Priest of St. George’s Cathedral in Stockholm, visited the Greek Embassy in Sweden at the gracious invitation of Her Excellency Ambassador Aikaterini Fountoulaki. The visit began with the Metropolitan performing the service of…

The Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord and the memory of Saint Basil the Great was celebrated, according to the Julian Calendar, at the Vatopedi Metochion of Galata, Constantinople. On Tuesday, 14 January 2025, the Divine Liturgy took place at the Church of Saint Andrew the Apostle, in Galata, where the Russian speaking community…

On Thursday, 16 January 2025, His Eminence Metropolitan Iakovos of Ireland visited the headquarters of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia in Sydney. The Hierarch of the Ecumenical Throne was warmly welcomed by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, who was joined by clergy of the Archdiocese. After his tour of the recently renovated Cathedral of…

On Tuesday, 1st / 14th January 2025, the memory of Saint Basil the Great, the Heavenly Manifestor, was celebrated at his Holy Monastery, located near the New Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem, under the care, preparation, and hospitality of the Hegumen and Elder Kamarasis, Archimandrite Nektarios. The celebration included Vespers in the evening…

At midnight on the 1st/14th of January 2025, a festive Divine Liturgy – “Parrhesia” – took place at the Most Holy and Life-Giving Tomb on the feast of the Circumcision of the Lord and the commemoration of Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, the Great Hierarch and Ecumenical Teacher. The Divine Liturgy…

On Sunday, 12 January 2025, at the Orthodox Church of Estonia, in the city of Pärnu and at the Metropolitan Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, the ordination of His Grace Bishop Damaskinos of Haapsalu, who is Finnish by origin, and who belonged to the brotherhood of the Holy Xenophontos Monastery of Mount Athos,…

With the Blessings of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, His Grace Bishop Bartholomew of Brisbane blessed and cut the traditional vasilopita for the Diocese of Brisbane on the occasion of the commencement of the new year. From the outset, on behalf of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, His Grace thanked the clergy and…