The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All-Holiness Bartholomew, on Monday presided over the Vespers Service on the feast day of St. Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople. Earlier on the same day, a Patriarchal Divine Liturgy was accompanied by the splendorous ordination of the new Metropolitan of Spain and Portugal, His Eminence Vissarion. In a…

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Tuesday morning received Greece’s president of the republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, at the Athens Archdiocese. The country’s head of state reciprocated a courtesy visit last June by the Primate of the Church of Greece to the presidential mansion. In a later statement, His Beatitude noted…

Greek authorities on Tuesday morning announced another prohibition against public outdoor assemblies exceeding 100 people, with the pandemic-related measure taking effect until Monday, Feb. 1. In justifying the extension of a similar restriction, law enforcement officials cited a recommendation by a national committee for public health protection. The measure will not affect any previously scheduled…

The Church today venerates the memory of Xenophon & his Companions, who lived in the 5th and 6th centuries.

Princess Ileana, the last princess of Romania, better known in America as Mother Alexandra, the foundress of the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, was honored in Iaşi on the 30th anniversary of her repose. The management of the Iași National Athenaeum, a public cultural institution, opened a photo exhibition in honor…

WIth the blessing of His Grace Bishop Arsenije of Nis, a traditional Saint Sava’s Academy was held in Saint Sava’s House at Cathedral church in Nis on 25 January 2021. The academy in honor of Saint Sava, prince, monk, writer, diplomat and the first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Orthodox Church was organized by the…

His Eminence Metropolitan Hrizostom of Dabar-Bosnia, the Locum Tenens of the Throne of Serbian Patriarchs received His Excellency Aleksander Botsan Harchenko, the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Serbia at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade on 26 January 2021. spc.rs

On Monday, January 25, 2021, the feast day of our Father among the Saints, Gregory Archbishop of Constantinople the Theologian, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain offered Memorial Prayers for the repose of the soul of his late predecessor Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira and Great Britain in the Archdiocesan Chapel. Praying with…

On the Eve of the Great Feast of Theophany, January 18, 2021, His Grace Bishop Irinej of Eastern America celebrated the Vesperal Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great in the St. Sava Church in St. Petersburg, Florida. Concelebrating with His Grace were Protopresbyter-Stavrophor Radivoje Panic of Belgrade’s St. Sava Temple, host priest Presbyter Dragan…