The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, issued a message on the occasion of the new academic year in the country. In the message, His Beatitude referred to the paramount position held by the family and the Church in the education of children and young people, as well as the new realities in the…

The Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, was the latest Orthodox hierarch this month to convey his congratulations to newly enthroned Metropolitan-Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Eminence Joanikije. His Beatitude also gifted the Metropolitan an Icon of the Resurrection of the Lord, which was crafted in Albania with the…

Iconic Greek composer and distinguished personality Mikis Theodorakis was laid to rest on Thursday in a small village cemetery in western Crete. The body of the great artist was transported by vessel from the mainland to the large island of Crete earlier in the day. An exodios funeral service was held at the St. Nicholas…

The first session of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece since the beginning of the new ecclesiastical year on Sept. 1, and with its new composition of hierarchs, took place today in Athens. The session marks the commencement of the Church of Greece’s 165th synodical period.

The Church today venerates the memory of the Holy & Righteous Ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna.

Vespers will be performed at the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas in New York, which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on September 10 for the first time in 20 years, the General Hierarchical Vicar of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, Fr. Alexandros Karloutsos, told Russia’s state-run Sputnik news…

On September 8, 2021, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America made a brief stop today at the home of the former Metropolitan of Belgium, and Exarch of the Netherlands and Luxembourg, His Eminence Penteleimon. He is retired and lives in Chios now.

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A Great Archieratical Orthros was held on Tuesday afternoon at the Metropolitan chapel of St. Paraskevi, in the west Athens district of Nea Ionia, on the occasion of the feast day of the Nativity of the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary. The chapel displays an exact replica of the Holy and Wonder-working Icon of the Panaghia…