On Sunday, the 21st of April / 4th of May 2025, the Patriarchate solemnly celebrated the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women. On this day, the Church commemorates Joseph of Arimathaea, the noble counsellor and burial-giver of our Lord, who came from Arimathaea—modern-day Ramla—a respected member of the council, who boldly went unto Pilate and asked…

On Sunday, 4 May 2025, the Monastery of Saint Vlash in Albania hosted a festal Divine Liturgy on the occasion of the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women. The service was led by His Beatitude Archbishop John of Tirana, Durrës, and All Albania, marking his first official pastoral visit to this revered monastery. The Archbishop concelebrated…

On Sunday the 4th of May 2025, the Third Sunday of Pascha and the Sunday of the Holy Myrrhbearers, with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, His Grace Bishop Elpidios of Perth Presided over the Matins and Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the Church of Sts Constantine and Helene in Perth WA. At…

On Wednesday, 23 April 2025, it was announced that two Roman Catholic institutions in Bavaria have decided to jointly award their annual prizes—for the first time ever—to His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, in recognition of his contribution to the Ecumenical Dialogue, that is, the effort to bring Christian Churches closer together. The institutions honouring the…

“Our task is to restart from Nicaea, from the unalloyed and integrated Kerygma of the Apostles and the Dogmata of the Fathers” emphasised, among other things, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew from the podium of the International Academic Conference on the theme “Starting Again from Nicaea: The Significance of the Incarnation in Contemporary Theology,” which…

On the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women, 4 May 2025, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided over the Patriarchal and Poly-Hierarchical Divine Liturgy which took place at the venerable Patriarchal Church of Saint George, with the concelebration of Their Eminences, Metropolitan Meliton of Philadelphia, Metropolitan Irinaios of Myriophytos and Peristasis, Metropolitan Athenagoras of Kydonia, Metropolitan…

“Come, let us reason together” New Digital Fellowship Series with Elder Ephraim At the first e-meeting of the new series, Elder Ephraim engages in a discussion with an international Georgian-speaking audience Thursday May 8 at 19:30 EET Greek Time   Pemptousia and the the Elevation of the Cross Parish in Tbilisi, Georgia would like to…

Uprooted from Cappadocia, the refugees celebrate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary far from their village, with a Mass in the countryside. On September 14, 1924, they arrive in Piraeus, and while they wait to find “mother Greece” who will embrace them, they encounter cruelty, difficulties, and problems. Little Arsenios’ father is the president of…

30 April 2025 “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!” Psalm 133:1 In the spirit and yearning for unity within our church, the Patriarchate of Jerusalem raises concerns of the passing of a new law, The Churches and Congregations Act, by the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu) on 9…