Sessions of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece continued for a fifth straight day on Friday, with hierarchs of the Church of Greece convening at the Inter-Orthodox Center at the Holy Monastery of Penteli, due north of Athens, and under the chairmanship of the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His…

Bishop Gregorios Khoury elected as Patriarchal Vicar and Secretary of the Holy Synod  Archimandrite Arsanios Dahdal and Archimandrite Mousa al-Khasi, elected as Assistant Bishops to the Patriarch. The Holy Antiochian Synod, held in Balamand this evening, elected Archbishop Niphon Saykali of Shehba, a Metropolitan and a member of the Holy Synod. The Holy Synod also…

His Holiness Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch, presented the Order of St. Sava to Mr. Milorad Vucelic, editor-in-chief of Vecernje Novosti, in the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade, on October 7, 2021. The solemn award ceremony was attended by Their Graces Bishops Irinej of Backa, Fotije of Zvornik and Tuzla and David of Krusevac, family, friends and…

The church where many Pereslavl princes, including the great St. Alexander Nevsky, were baptized could soon be included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Holy Transfiguration Cathedral in the Pereslavl Kremlin, as well as the Rostov Kremlin Ensemble were included in the preliminary UNESCO Heritage list, Yaroslavl Province Governor Dmitry Mironov announced this…

On Thursday afternoon, October 7, the General Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece Mr. Themestoklis Dimiris, visited the Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Where he was accompanied by personal staff members from the ministry, the Ambassador of Greece in Israel Mr. Kyriakos Loukakis and the Consul General of Greece in Jerusalem Mr. Evangelos Vlioras.

The Romanian Orthodox Church’s St. Alexandra the Empress Counseling Center for Parents and Children opened on October 1, 2017. Since then, the center has supported more than 750 pregnant women and mothers with several children, reports the Basilica News Agency. The center offers free psychological counseling, therapy, support groups, breastfeeding classes, emergency material help, items…

A fire that broke out on Tuesday left a beautiful Orthodox church in southern Kazakhstan without a central dome, central altar area, an iconostasis, or interior decoration. Thankfully, the altar table of the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross in Alma-Ata survived, reports the Russian Church’s Metropolitan District in Kazakhstan. Services will now be…

18th-century Christ the Pantocrator and Panaghia Portaitissa (Iveron) icons were delivered to the Greek Consul General in Düsseldorf on Tuesday. The icons are among nearly 40 that were stolen from Holy Dormition Monastery in Makrion, Zagori, Greece, in 2007. Last year, the icons were discovered in the catalogue of a private art gallery in Europe,…

Memorial Service in Cardiff (South Wales) at the tomb of the late Archim. Gennadios Themelis, from Kalymnos With the inspirational guidance of His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain, as well as the coordinated efforts of Bishop Iakovos of Claudiopolis, who is the Bishop in charge of the historic Greek Orthodox Community of…