Grateful to the brilliant scientists and health care workers who, through hard work and by the Grace of God, produce and deliver life-saving vaccines. We have a moral obligation to make vaccines available to everyone in the world,” said His Eminence. goarch.org  

On April 1, 2021, from the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros received a Proclamation from Mayor John Cooper celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Greek Revolution of 1821. Joining Archbishop Elpidophoros and Mayor Cooper were His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas of Detroit, Ambassador Alexandra Papadopoulou of the Hellenic Republic, and George Horiates, the…

The Patriarchate of Jerusalem, a day earlier, the Third Sunday of the Holy and Great Lent, celebrated the Feast of the Veneration of the Precious Cross of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The Feast was first celebrated at the Patriarchate with a Great Vespers service on Saturday afternoon, according to the status quo order…

Archimandrite Fr. Sarantis Sarantos, the parish Arch-priest of the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Theotokos, in the northern Athens district of Maroussi, reposed in the Lord on Sunday evening. The reposed cleric ministered to the faithful at the specific cathedral for 51 years, and was the spiritual father of numerous generations of Marousi residents….

The chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for the Church’s relations with Society and Mass Media, Vladimir Legoida, this month emphasized that the Russian Church does not oppose new technologies — when asked to address concerns by some faithful regarding accelerated digital reforms underway in the vast country. Legoida stressed that the Russian Orthodox Church…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Beatitude Porfirije, on Monday received the visiting foreign minister of Greece, Nikos Dendias. The latter is on an official visit to Belgrade, where he will hold talks with his Serbian counterpart, Nikola Selakovic, before participating in a trilateral meeting with the foreign ministers of Serbia, Greece and Cyprus.

Members of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece will remotely convene on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, with Hierarchs to discuss ongoing pandemic-related restrictions amid Holy and Great Lent and ahead of Holy Pascha, Easter Sunday, which falls on May 2. The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, is also…

A draft bill amendment was ratified in Greece’s Parliament on Monday to extend a one-off economic subsidy to Church-affiliated institutions active in charitable works and social support, as the latter have been particularly affected during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Specific conditions are stipulated for receiving the financial aid, with beneficiaries being the Autocephalous Orthodox Church…

The Church today venerates the memory of the Monk-Martyrs Claudius, Diodore, Victor, Victorinus – and those with them. Today is also the feast day of the New Martyr Georgios of Ephesus, who while intoxicated renounced his faith and declared himself a Muslim – only to subsequently realize his folly and temporarily flee to the island…