Traditional Christmas carols were sung to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Tuesday afternoon by the educators and graduates of the Bosporus metropolis’ Zographeion Lyceum, led by the secondary school’s director, Ioannis Demirtzoglou. The Christmas carols resounded throughout Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Phanar-district seat, as the Ecumenical Patriarch looked on from the…

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, convened a new Archdiocesan Council that will convene until the 2022 Clergy Laity Congress. Just prior to the meeting, the Archbishop addressed the newly established “Senators for Orthodoxy and Hellenism,” a special new organization that brings together clergy and laity from around the Archdiocese with tremendous expertise and…

This week witnessed the completion of the transfer of a cathedral in downtown Stockholm to the Holy Metropolis of Sweden and all Scandinavia. In a statement after the signing of a donation contract, the Metropolitan Sweden and All Scandinavia, His Eminence Cleopas, expressed his deep gratitude to the donors for the new parish, which will be dedicated to neomartyr St. George…

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic accompanied visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei on a tour of the St. Sava Cathedral in Belgrade on Tuesday, where the Russian delegation laid flowers on the grave of the reposed in the Lord Serbian Patriarch Irinej. On the occasion, Lavrov read out a letter by Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the…

This week’s announcement, by the Greek government, of a slight easing in pandemic-related restrictions on Church-going means that the faithful will be allowed to venerate the Holy Relics of the saint in Zakynthos this week, among others. As foreseen, strict public health protocols will still be in place, such as the mandatory wearing of face…

The Church today venerates the memory of Dionysius of Zakynthos. This holy hierarch was born and raised on the eponymous Ionian Sea island in the 16th century. St. Dionysius reposed in peace in 1621, leaving behind his sacred and incorrupt relics as a treasure for his fellow citizens. He is the patron saint of Zakynthos. The…

The Russian Orthodox Church is in no rush to recognize the authenticity of the remains of the Royal Martyrs found near Ekaterinburg, His Grace Bishop Evgeny of Ekaterinburg said at a press conference on Saturday. Earlier, Evgeny Pchelov, an associate professor of the Historical and Archival Institute of the Russian Orthodox University for the Humanities…

Agios Dionysios is the largest church in Zakynthos and celebrates on December 17, which is the Feast Day of Agios Dionysios, Patron Saint, and Protector of the island. This holy and miraculous church was slowly built from 1925 and was finally completed in 1948, only a few years before the devastating earthquake of 1953. It…

12.12.2020. Two numbers repeated. December 12, 2020. A landmark day for the Greek Orthodox Community in Scandinavia, with the completion of the renovation of the St. George Cathedral in Stockholm; 130 years after the construction of the church in the heart of the Swedish capital, in 1890. A day of praise and thanksgiving to the…