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WATCH HERE the 2nd e-meeting with Elder Efrem of Vatopedi and Romanian priest’s wives (English interpretation is available)

The church of St. Demetrius, which is one of the most important medieval cultural monuments, lies in the village of Patalenitsa, located at the foot of the Rhodope Mountains. The temple remained buried in the ground for five centuries and avoided desecration by the Ottoman invaders. This is why some frescoes typical of the Renaissance…

Efforts to complete the mosaic works at the imposing national cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, continue unabated. The metropolitan Cathedral’s mosaic is the biggest and most complicated such project ever undertaken in Romania, employing 50 people, and with every square meter requiring roughly 16 kilos of materials.                

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Thursday was vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus. The inoculation was conducted at a public university clinic in the Bosporus metropolis. On the occasion, the Ecumenical Patriarch thanked the medical and nursing staff of the clinic, as well as all of their colleagues around the…

Turkish state-run news agency, Anadolu, this week posted a featured entitled” Turkish monastery welcomes over 123,000 tourists in 99 days”, referring to the ancient Panaghia Sumela monastery in the Pontus region of the southeast coast of the Black Sea, and near the historic city of Trabzon. The monastery is identified as “Turkish” in the English-language…

Distinguished Greek law professor and attorney Ioannis Ktistakis was elected as a justice of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Ktistakis had served as the chief legal adviser of Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople since 2009. He has won 53 cases before the European Court of Human Rights, including a unanimous landmark decision in…

A Divine Liturgy and memorial service was held today for the repose of the soul of Archbishop Christodoulos, on the occasion of the 13th anniversary since the passing of the beloved Archbishop of Athens and All Greece. The services were held at the chapel of the Athens First Cemetery, with many of the reposed Archbishop’s…

The Church today venerates the memory of Ephraim the Syrian. St. Ephraim was born in Nisibis of Mesopotamia in roughly 306, and in his youth was the disciple of St. James, Bishop of Nisibis, one of the 318 Fathers at the First Ecumenical Council. Ephraim lived in the city, practicing a strict ascetical life and…