The second group of new members of the cabinet, following a reshuffle, arrived at the presidential mansion to be sworn in at 11:45 on Tuesday, in the presence of President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. As for the first group, before entering the presidential mansion they each did a…

The first six of the new ministers and deputy ministers joining the government or switching portfolios were sworn in by Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece at the presidential mansion on Tuesday at 11:00, in the presence of the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The new members…

The online radio platform Pemptousia this week will broadcast the Christmas Eve All-night Vigil – as based on the Julian calendar – from the Catholicos, or main cathedral, of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi. The broadcast will begin on Wednesday, Jan. 6 and continue into Thursday, Jan. 7, commencing at 9 p.m. Athens…

Hierarchs Porfirije, Gerasim and Nikodim gave words of encouragement and consolation to the victims, and agreed with the priests on the distribution of mobile homes. On January 2, 2021, Metropolitan Porfirije of Zagreb and Ljubljana and Bishops Gerasim of Gornji Karlovac and Nikodim of Dalmatia visited the sites devastated by the earthquake that hit Croatia….

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A thanksgiving service was held at the St. Nedelya Church to mark the 143rd anniversary of Sofia’s Liberation from Ottoman rule. Belogradchik Bishop Polycarp, who led the prayer service, said there would be no liturgical procession this year, which is traditionally held after the service. “But here we will have a prayer for all the…

This year marks the dour 50th anniversary of the closure of the Halki School of Theology, engineered by Turkish authorities in 1971 as part of an intolerant law against private education. As a result, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople’s yearbook for 2021 is dedicated to the silenced seminary, the most important such institution of the…

Children of the local Orthodox mission in the impoverished Congo city of Katanga this week conveyed their thanks to the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos, and to the monastery’s abbot, the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, for the material support sent by the monastery. The children of the mission expressed their wish for…

A trio of Serbian Orthodox hierarchs over the weekend toured the quake-ravaged Petrinja district in Croatia, which was hit by a devastating earthquake last week. The hierarchs offered their support and consolation to the quake victims, while also meeting with local Orthodox priests to coordinate the distribution of mobile homes to families left homeless, while…