The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, during a sermon on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, noted that “true faith is significant, because it opens to us the heavens.” His Beatitude added: “The Orthodox icon is an invitation for prayer; the icon is not placed in the church to simply admire its beauty, it is…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, over the weekend received Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Costas Vlasis, as part of the latter’s official visit to Constantinople. Vlasis holds the expatriate Greeks and religious affairs portfolio at the foreign ministry. The Greek official attended the Divine Liturgy on the occasion of the Sunday…

On the occasion of the Sunday of Orthodoxy, which based on the Lenten calendar for 2021 was commemorated today, March 21, the St. Maxim the Greek Institute and the online platform Pemptousia hosted an online theology synaxis with several Orthodox primates, hierarchs, elders and academics, including the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All-Holiness Bartholomew I….

  The Director of the Office for Cooperation with the Diapsora and Serbs in the Region Mr. Arnaud Guillon met with His Grace Bishop Dositej of Britain and Scandinavia. Director Guillon and Bishop Dositej talked about the needs of the Serbian diaspora in those countries, about the possibilities of cooperation, and the Bishop conveyed the…

  Kalitera mias oras eleftheri zoi, para saranta hronia sklavia kai filaki. That translates to “One hour of free life is worth more than 40 years of slavery and prison.” On 25 March this year Greek people celebrate the 200thanniversary of the declaration of their war for independence against the Ottomans, also known as the…

More than 80 wooden churches found in the Cluj region of Romania include ones designated as historical monuments in the country. Nevertheless, six of the wooden churches are now in danger of permanent damage, and need urgent restoration. According to an official with the Romanian center for preservation and promotion of traditional culture, every decade…

On the occasion of the Sunday of Orthodoxy, which based on the Lenten calendar for 2021 was commemorated today, March 21, the St. Maxim the Greek Institute and the online platform Pemptousia hosted an online theology synaxis with several Orthodox primates, hierarchs, elders and academics, including the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All-Holiness Bartholomew I….

The Sunday of Orthodoxy was celebrated in venerable Athonite tradition today, March 21, at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos. A litany of the Holy Icons and Holy Relics was conducted after the Divine Liturgy at the monastery’s Catholicos (main cathedral), officiated by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the…

The Church today commemorates the Sunday of Orthodoxy, celebrated with the Lenten calendar on the first Sunday of Great Lent. The dominant theme of this Sunday, since 843, has been that of the victory of the holy icons. In that year the iconoclastic controversy, which had raged intermittingly since 726, was finally concluded, and icons…