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The fifth online synaxis, or assembly, from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, with children and young people, has been rescheduled for Thursday, Jan. 21, at 19:30 Athens time, or 17.30 GMT. Those wishing to participate may fill out a special form found on…

Tuesday, January 12, will mark the dour 50-year anniversary of the closure of the Halki School of Theology by Turkish authorities. The Ecumenical Patriarchate’s pre-eminent seminary was closed on the basis of a controversial and reactionary law handed down by the Turkish constitutional, which banned private tertiary education in the country. The legal decision was…

Primary school and kindergarten pupils returned to classrooms in Greece on Monday, after two months away due to a pandemic-related lockdown in the country. Secondary school pupils and tertiary level students will continue to rely on remote learning via the Internet.

Noted Orthodox hymnologist and Master Head Chanter Charilaos Taliadoros passed away on Monday, following a lengthy hospitalization in the northern city of Thessaloniki for acute symptoms of the Covid-19 virus.

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, during his sermon on Sunday, on the after-feast of the Theophany, of Epiphany, described repentance as a way of life, as a “baptism in tears,” as he characteristically said. The Romanian Patriarch quoted the Gospel, extolling the faithful, “Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Members of the permanent Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece will convene tomorrow, Tuesday, in order to consider the Church’s stance in the face of still imposed state restrictions on Church-going during the holding of services in cathedrals and chapels, as well as to deliberate on a handful of incidents that occurred…

The Sacred and Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople will also convene on Tuesday, under the chairmanship of the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew I. According to reports, members of the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Sacred and Holy Synod will broach the issue of electing a new Metropolitan of Italy, nearly four months after…

The Church today venerates the memory of Righteous Father Theodosius the Cenobiarch, a 5th century monastic father from Cappadocia