Archimandrite Athenagoras (Christos) Ziliaskopoulos was born in 1970 in Reutlingen, Germany, and grew up in Greece and Germany. He spent his young adulthood on Mount Athos as a monastic and learned to live a life devoted to Christ and the Church. He was ordained to the Holy Diaconate in 1997 and the Holy Priesthood in…

Not content simply to restore and rebuild village churches, the Common Cause project of the Russian Orthodox Church is also working to restore prayer in them. Common Cause was founded in 2006 as a project dedicated to restoring and rebuilding wooden churches of the Russian north that were neglected, repurposed, and destroyed during the long…

~ March 31 deadline for $5,000 communications grants ~ BOSTON – The Peter Agris Memorial Journalism/Communications Scholarships recently kicked off its 29th year of providing critical financial aid to aspiring Greek American journalists and communications specialists. The grants are provided through a collaboration between the Alpha Omega Council of New England and the Agris family….

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The feast day of Stamatios, John, & Nicholas, the New Martyrs of Spetses, was commemorated on the eponymous Saronic Gulf island on Wednesday at the renovated Cathedral dedicated to the trio of Spetses New Martyrs. The Metropolitan of Hydra, Spetses and Aegina, His Eminence Ephraim officiated at an archieratical Vespers service on Tuesday evening, the…

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia this week announced that it was planning to restore the Cathedral of the Annunciation of Our Lady and build a new seminary and museum. The Cathedral has been located in the suburb of Redfern since 1848. It was an Anglican church for its first century, before being re-consecrated to…

Well-known Greek shipping owner and philanthropist Iakovos Tsounis, a 97-year-old veteran of WWII, this week announced that he will donate his fortune to Greece’s armed forces, saying he wants to leave his earthly existence in the manner in which he began, namely, “barefoot”. As such, he declared that he will donate 23 million euros for…

The president of Turkey’s national assembly, Mustafa Sentop, begins an official visit to Albania this week at the head of a large Turkish delegation, with meetings planned with the country’s leadership. The visit by Turkey’s top lawmaker, nevertheless, is rife with religious overtones and overt symbolism, as the delegation will travel to the northern Albanian…

Members of the permanent Holy Synod of the Church of Greece convened via the teleconference format on Wednesday, in the first of a two-day session this week, with various items on the agenda, including state measures imposed on public assembly due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The Holy Synod later issued an encyclical clarifying the…