The online platform Pemptousia will host the first online Archontariki with the Metropolitan of Nea Krini and Kalamaria, His Eminence Ioustinos, on Saturday between 7 and 9 p.m. Athens time. Archontariki in Greek is the guest house of a monastery. https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMocuCrrD0qEtOK1tiguGZRvhC-NFmCFZ9C

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, this week referred to the installation of the marble sidings at the under-construction Church of St. Nicholas in Manhattan’s Ground Zero. The marble was imported  from Greece, and is of the same deposit used for the construction of the Parthenon some 2,500 years ago, namely, the Pentelic variety,…

An age-old tradition of the Great Metropolis of Constantinople was again revived this year, after several decades, in the Neochori district, in veneration of the memory of St. Tryphon, and held on the saint’s feast day on Monday. The service was celebrated at the Metochion, or glebe, of the Holy Sepulcher in Neochori, where an…

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, on Monday received Russian President Vladimir Putin for a personal visit. Putin congratulated the Russian patriarch on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of his enthronement. Putin gifted the Russian Patriarch a bouquet of white roses and wished him good health, something reciprocated by His…

The annual Synodal Divine Liturgy on the feast day of Photios I, Patriarch of Constantinople and patron saint of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s Holy Synod, will not, unfortunately,  be conducted this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Divine Liturgy on the feast day of St. Photios is usually celebrated at the Dormition…

A press release issued on Tuesday by the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Demetrius in the northern city of Thessaloniki categorically denies any link between last October’s celebration of the great feast day of St. Demetrius, the patron saint of the ancient metropolis, and a subsequent spreading of the Covid-19 virus in the region. The development…

The Church today commemorates the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. The story of the Presentation is told in the Gospel of Luke, by which Mary and Joseph were faithful Jews and observed their religious customs. An important custom was for the couple to take their first-born son to the Temple  40 days after his…

As is customary, the school community of St George College, Thebarton SA, had their annual “agiasmos” service to mark the start of the new school year at the end of their first week, on the morning of Friday, 28th of January. In recent years, this service has been celebrated with the whole school together in…

Dear friends, We would like to announce that the Web Magazine Pemptousia organizes the “1st e-Synaxis from Mount Athos with Elder Ephraim and Romanian Psychologists and Psychiatrists” which will take place on Friday, February 5 at 19:30 (Greek Time). Elder Ephraim will speak for 30-40 minutes and then a dialogue with the participants will follow….