In Athens, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew arrived on Monday, 4 May 2026. After visiting, according to custom, the Holy Archdiocese of Athens and meeting with His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and All Greece, His All-Holiness proceeded to the Ceremonial Hall of the City Hall of the Municipality of Athens. There, the ceremony…

In a particularly warm atmosphere, the meeting between His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece took place on Monday afternoon at the headquarters of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens. His All-Holiness was warmly received by the Protosyncellus of the Archdiocese, His Grace Bishop Barnabas of Christoupolis, His…

With particular splendor and spiritual reverence, the two-day anniversary events of the Holy Metropolis of Sweden and All Scandinavia were held, on the occasion of the completion of fifty years since the transfer/donation of the Saint George Cathedral of Stockholm from the “Catholic Apostolic Church” to the Holy Metropolis of Sweden of the Ecumenical Patriarchate;…

With due honour and religious reverence, the Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament, Mr. Nikitas Kaklamanis, welcomed His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Monday at Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos, who is undertaking an official visit to Greece. Upon the arrival of His All-Holiness, the Speaker expressed the deep respect of the State and of the…

Address by the Very Reverend Archimandrite Fr. Bartholomew, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Esphigmenou, Mount Athos Saint George Cathedral of Stockholm First of all, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden for his gracious invitation and for the blessing of being with you today, here in…

Egypt’s Minister of Health and Population, Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, received His Beatitude Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria, together with Metropolitan Damaskinos, Patriarchal Vicar in Alexandria, to discuss prospects for cooperation in establishing a new hospital affiliated with the Patriarchate in Alexandria. During the meeting, the Minister warmly welcomed His Beatitude and his accompanying delegation,…

With due splendour and in accordance with ecclesiastical order, the feast of the Translation of the Holy Relics of Saint Athanasios was honoured in the parish of St Athanasios of the town of Thouria, within the Municipality of Kalamata. The festal Divine Liturgy was presided over by His Eminence Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Messinia, who was…

With ecclesiastical reverence and liturgical splendour, the memory of the glorious Hieromartyr Platon of Chios, Metropolitan of Chios, and those who suffered with him, was honoured over the two days of 2nd and 3rd May. On Saturday afternoon, a supplicatory service was held in front of the dark prison where the Chian clergy and notables…

On Sunday, the 20th of April / 3rd of May, the Patriarchate celebrated the Sunday of the Paralytic, in accordance with the book of the Pentecostarion, in the Arabic-speaking Greek Orthodox Community of the town of Reineh, which is under the jurisdiction of the Holy Metropolis of Nazareth. The miracle of the healing of the…