The Clergy, Presbyteres and children from the Archdiocesean District gathered virtually with His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America to receive his blessing before the beginning of Holy Week. The gathering was hosted by Clergy Brotherhood President Father Elias Villis and Presvyteres President Dianna Doukas Kazakis.   goarch.org

Beloved Sisters and Brothers in Christ, We are fast approaching Great and Holy Week and the Glorious Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our annual commemoration of this last week in His earthly life is filled with pain, with suffering, with remorse, and with unspeakable love and sacrifice. And when this Week of weeks is…

Episcopal Encyclical for Palm Sunday 2021 Reverend Fathers, Honorable Ambassadors, Consuls, Community Leaders, and Archons, Chosen people of God, Friends, benefactors, and supporters of the Holy Metropolis of Sweden, My dear brethren, centuries have gone by since the Lord of glory triumphantly entered Jerusalem “on a donkey’s colt,” where He was greeted by the people…

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The radio station of the Metropolis of Piraeus every Saturday and Sunday broadcasts, in Greek, the program “Sermons from Athos,” with spiritual lectures and homilies by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi. 

The Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, on Monday met with Russia’s minister of Science and Higher Education, Valery Falkov at the ministry’s headquarters in Moscow. Hilarion, who is the chairman of the Department of External Church Relations and a permanent member of the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Moscow, was accompanied by members…

The Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, referred to a duty by citizens to cast their vote in elections, speaking during a sermon on the fifth Sunday of Great Lent in Tirana, and ahead of general elections in that country on Sunday, April 25. Moreover, His Beatitude underlined that Orthodox faithful in…

Today is the sixth Tuesday of Great Lent. On this day, the Church venerates the memory of Gregory & Anastasios, Patriarchs of Antioch, as well as St. Theodore the Trichinas, and Zacchaeus the Apostle of Caesaria.  

The hierarchs of the permanent Holy Synod of the Church of Greece on Tuesday announced a decision whereby Holy Services during upcoming Great Easter Week will conclude earlier in the evening than in previous years, per traditional. Moreover, the Resurrection Service on Holy Saturday will be conducted no later than 9 p.m., rather than at…