The Russian Orthodox Church held its central event in this year of the 800th anniversary of the birth of the Right-Believing Prince Alexander Nevsky this weekend in St. Petersburg. Events have been held throughout Russia throughout the year in honor of the great 13th-century saint. Hundreds of thousands venerated relics of St. Alexander Nevsky that…

My Beloved Christians, I rejoice to be with you today, fresh from a spiritually enriching visit to our Holy Mother Church in Constantinople, and from the observances of 9/11 at our Saint Nicholas Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center. I cannot help but note that in the aftermath of every September Eleventh…

The Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine has been illuminated for the first time and has officially commenced the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 remembrance. “For they gave their lives for the common weal, and won for themselves the praise which grows not old and the most distinguished of all sepulchers – not…

The Holy Archdiocese of Australia welcomes with satisfaction the retraction of the ABC news agency and its expression of an apology to Archbishop Makarios for all the distorting and ultimately slanderous lies it had published in April of this year at the expense of His Eminence, the Greek Orthodox Church, and the Greek faithful of…

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The Abbot of the Holy Monastery of the Life-Giving Spring on the Cyclades Island of Paros, the Elder Archimandrite Chrysostomos, reposed in the Lord on Thursday evening at an intensive care unit in Athens. An exodios funeral service will be held on Saturday at the Panagia Ekatontapiliani Metropolitan Cathedral on the island.  

The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, this week spoke to a television program aired on the island of Cyprus. Among others, the Elder Ephraim referred to his recent hospitalization with a Covid-19 infection, his faith in God and the issue of vaccinations. In a related report from…

A memorial service for the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks is scheduled for today at the nearly completed Greek Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas at “Ground Zero”. The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, will lead the memorial service. The small Orthodox church in Manhattan was completely destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001. After 20…

Members of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece convened for a second straight day on Friday. The permanent Holy Synod accepted the resignation of the Metropolitan of Thira, Amorgos and the Isles, His Eminence Epiphanios. As such, the upcoming session of the permanent Holy Synod on Oct. 8 will convene at…