New York – The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, together with the Ίδρυμα Μείζονος Ελληνισμού (Foundation for the Hellenic World), are joining forces to promote the historical, religious and cultural heritage of Hellenism, in the United States. To commence this program, on February 1, 2020 His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and Vice President of…

His Eminence Archbishop Makarios, travelled to Eldoret to visit the parish of Chepsaita and the five schools around the area. The Archbishop visited Silungai boys high school, Silungai girls high school, St Peter high school, St. Peters Chepsaita primary school and Shiandiche high school. The Archbishop had a chance to go around the school and…

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The online platform Pemptousia will host the first online Archontariki with the Metropolitan of Nea Krini and Kalamaria, His Eminence Ioustinos, on Saturday between 7 and 9 p.m. Athens time. Archontariki in Greek is the guest house of a monastery. https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMocuCrrD0qEtOK1tiguGZRvhC-NFmCFZ9C

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, this week referred to the installation of the marble sidings at the under-construction Church of St. Nicholas in Manhattan’s Ground Zero. The marble was imported  from Greece, and is of the same deposit used for the construction of the Parthenon some 2,500 years ago, namely, the Pentelic variety,…

An age-old tradition of the Great Metropolis of Constantinople was again revived this year, after several decades, in the Neochori district, in veneration of the memory of St. Tryphon, and held on the saint’s feast day on Monday. The service was celebrated at the Metochion, or glebe, of the Holy Sepulcher in Neochori, where an…

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, on Monday received Russian President Vladimir Putin for a personal visit. Putin congratulated the Russian patriarch on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of his enthronement. Putin gifted the Russian Patriarch a bouquet of white roses and wished him good health, something reciprocated by His…

The annual Synodal Divine Liturgy on the feast day of Photios I, Patriarch of Constantinople and patron saint of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s Holy Synod, will not, unfortunately,  be conducted this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Divine Liturgy on the feast day of St. Photios is usually celebrated at the Dormition…

A press release issued on Tuesday by the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Demetrius in the northern city of Thessaloniki categorically denies any link between last October’s celebration of the great feast day of St. Demetrius, the patron saint of the ancient metropolis, and a subsequent spreading of the Covid-19 virus in the region. The development…