Within the framework of the scholarship scheme for the Christians of the Middle East, by the Government of Hungary, it is being announced that the Scholarships for the Academic year 2021-2022 will be managed through the Patriarchate of Jerusalem. The prospective candidates should submit their application forms solely to the Patriarchate, following the instructions listed…

On Wednesday, 7/20 January 2021, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the synaxis of Saint John the Forerunner and Baptist. On this feast, the Church has the synaxis (gathering) of the faithful to honour Saint John the Forerunner, as the primary person in the Lord’s baptism, in the river Jordan. As the troparion says, “his…

On Tuesday, 6/19 January 2021, the Patriarchate of Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Theophany. On this Feast, His Beatitude, the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos, surrounded by Hagiotaphite Archbishops, officiated the Service of the Great Sanctification of the Waters at the Catholicon of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and sanctified the Church, the Archbishops, the…

The initiatives taken by Greek universities in the fields of education, research and innovation, the extroversion of higher education and the study programs offered by Greek universities to the Greek Diaspora and foreign nationals, are some of the topics that will be discussed during the online conference “Reinforcing bridges between Greek Universities and the Greek…

Of the roughly 100 churches in the city of Madrid, the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Mary Magdalene has been recognized as one of the most beautiful. A list of the city’s 6 most beautiful churches has been compiled by the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, the most-quoted Spanish-language media in the world. The Cathedral of…

The holy Orthodox Church gained many souls this week, with the celebration of a mass Baptism in Tanzania. On January 19, the feast of St. Mark of Ephesus, one of the Pillars of Orthodoxy, 12 priests celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Church of St. Mark in Kimouli, in the northwestern Tanzanian province of Cerua,…

Lebanese authorities on Tuesday returned two stolen 18th-century icons – of Christ the Almighty and the Virgin Mary, as the Panaghia the Hodegetria or Directress – to the Greek ambassador in the country. The two rare icons were seized prior to going on auction. The icons were stolen from an exhibition in Athens in 2016,…

The Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Mount Athos, has unveiled its illustrated and deluxe ecclesiastical calendar for 2021. The impressive 2021 calendar is dedicated to the bicentennial of the beginning of the Greek War of Independence in 1821. In the edition’s foreword, the abbot of the monastery, the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, expresses his…

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