With all due solemnity and a large turnout of parishioners and friends of the Diplokionion Community in Constantinople, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated on Saturday, 8 March 2025, and a festive event followed, during the annual festival of the Sanctified Spring of the Holy Forty Martyrs. During the Holy Service on Saturday, His Eminence Metropolitan…

The former Metropolitan Anthimos of Thessaloniki has passed away at the age of 91, according to recent information. Former Metropolitan Anthimos (Dionysios Roussas) was born in Salmoni, Pyrgos, Ilia, in 1934. He graduated from the School of Philosophy of Athens in 1957 and from the School of Theology of the same University in 1963. He…

His Majesty King Abdullah II on Tuesday received representatives of the Jerusalem awqaf, church leaders, Jerusalemites, as well as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at Al Husseiniya Palace. During the meeting, a number of attendees spoke about Jordan’s vital role, under the leadership of His Majesty, in supporting Palestinians, and the importance of the Hashemite Custodianship…

With deep spiritual reverence, the Second Lenten Vespers took place on Sunday, 9 March 2025, at the Archdiocesan Church of Our Lady “Axion Esti”, in the Holy Diocese of Chora. His Grace Bishop Evmenios of Chora, presided over the Vespers, and conveyed the wishes and blessings of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, to the…

Undoubtedly, every missionary work in the African continent is both an invitation and a challenge at the same time. It is an invitation because one is called to explore new places and new cultures and to transmit the joyful message of the Resurrection of Christ to the most distant point on the world. At the…

The Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate convened, under the presidency of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, for its regular monthly sessions, on Monday and Tuesday, 10 and 11 March 2025. As noted in the relevant press release by the Chief Secretariat of the Holy and Sacred Synod: “At the beginning, the customary…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the Hierarchs-members of the Holy and Sacred Synod, on the occasion of the latest tragic events of violence in Syria and the joint appeal addressed by His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and two Primates from the other Christian Churches in Syria, express, in their letter to His…

The First Sunday of the Holy and Great Lent, 24th February / 9th March 2025, was celebrated as the Sunday of Orthodoxy by the Orthodox Church, particularly by the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. On this Sunday, the Church celebrates the triumph of the restoration of the holy icons under…

On Sunday, following the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel was honored on the occasion of his 35th anniversary of episcopal ministry. Before delivering the congratulatory message, Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam of Ploiești presented the volume “The Church’s Work in Society in 2024,” authored by Patriarch Daniel. A Life of Episcopal…