An expert committee of public health officials and epidemiologists in Greece has reportedly given the government the “go-ahead” to allow the reopening of the retail sector in the country, as of Monday. Much of the retail sector in Greece has been suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Strict restrictions will still be imposed, with the…

Today is the feast day of Paul of Thebes, first among hermits. The Church today also venerates the memory of John the Hut-Dweller, and Pansophios, the Martyr of Alexandria.  

On the day when the Church celebrates the Circumcision of the Lord and St. Basil the Great (New Year), His Grace Bishop Kiril of Buenos Aires and South-Central America celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in Cetinje Monastery. Archpriest-staurophores Gojko Perovic and Obren Jovanovic, archpriests Igor Balaban and Mirceta Sljivančanin, abbot of the monastery of St….

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The Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain has expressed its gratitude to the His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew regarding the election of Bishop Athanasios as Metropolitan of Colognia. The announcement of the Archdiocese reads: “Having learned of the election of His Grace Bishop Athanasios of Tropaeou as the Metropolitan of the once-illustrious Metropolitanate of Colognia,…

The second part of the first online synaxis, or assembly, from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, with English-speaking chanters has been posted today. The online assembly was held late last November.      Watch Part 1: 

Well-known benefactor Eleni Vafiadis, a mainstay of the ethnic Greek community in Egypt and vice president of the community of Alexandria, was laid to rest on Wednesday, after passing away a day earlier. An exodios funeral service was officiated by the Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II.   …

Volunteers from the Patriarchate of Romania, in cooperation with two Romanian Orthodox parishes in Germany, collected aid and delivered it to 100 families in need in the southeast Europe country.                    

The annual cutting of a New Year’s Cake, known as vassilopita in Greek, was held on Wednesday evening at the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which celebrated New Year’s Eve, as based on the Julian calendar. The Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Most Godly Beatitude Theophilos III, presided over the ceremony and then addressed those in attendance. Afterwards,…