On Saturday morning, 1 February 2025, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia liturgised at the Church of Saint Catherine, in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern, and was joined by Their Graces, Bishop Kyriakos of Melbourne and Bishop Evmenios of Chora. After the Divine Liturgy, His Eminence participated in and delivered an address at the Women’s…

By His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden On Monday, January 27, 2025, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew entrusted the task of representing the Ecumenical Patriarchate at the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by Soviet forces on January 27, 1945, to His Grace Bishop Emmanuel of Christoupolis, Mr….

On the morning of Saturday, February 1st, 2025, His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia, accompanied by the V. Rev. Archimandrite Bartholomew Iatridis, Pastor of the Saint George Cathedral of Stockholm, Rev. Economos Vasilios Khalil, Cleryman of the Patriarchate of Antioch, and Rev. Economos George Arvanitidis, Pastor of the Saints Demetrios and Nestor…

On Sunday, 26th January 2024, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain presided over Matins and celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of the Three Hierarchs in Leeds. Concelebrating with His Eminence was the Rev. Oeconomos Michael Petrakis, Priest-in-Charge and Revd Presbyter Ioannis Provatas, with Rev. Archdeacon George Tsourous also serving. Among…

On Wednesday, 16th/29th January 2025, the Funeral Service for the blessed Hegumen and Archimandrite of the Community Ierotheos of the Holy Monastery of Abba Theodosius, was held. For the funeral service and his burial, His Eminence, the Patriarchal Commissioner Metropolitan Isychios of Capitolias, with the Fathers of the Holy Sepulchre, went to the aforementioned Holy…

On Wednesday, 16th / 29th January 2025, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the Veneration of the Holy Chain of the Apostle Peter at the Holy Monastery of Saint Nicodemus, the nocturnal disciple of Christ, also known as “of Phaki,” where meals of lentils (phaki) were distributed in times of famine during the Byzantine era….

On Thursday, 30 January 2025, His Eminence Elder Metropolitan Apostolos of Derkoi, Patriarchal Commissioner, presided over the feast day of the Three Hierarchs at the venerable Patriarchal Church of Saint George the Great Martyr and Trophy-bearer at the Phanar.     vema.com.au

A memorial service was held on Wednesday evening, 29 January 2025, before the body of the late Archbishop Anastasios of Albania by Patriarch Daniel of Bulgaria, Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem and Archbishop George of Cyprus. Senior hierarchs and clergy from around the world continued to arrive at the Holy Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ…

As per his final wish, Archbishop Anastasios of Albania was laid to rest in a special crypt beneath the Cathedral of the Resurrection in Tirana. The revered hierarch passed away last Saturday at the age of 95. The Funeral Service took place yesterday, 30 January 2025, in an atmosphere of deep emotion, presided over by…