The Cathedral School is a Nursery (3 year old program), Pre K 4, and Kindergarten – 5th grade co- educational day school that offers a nurturing environment while preparing young minds for a rigorous academic education rooted in the principles of Hellenism. The curriculum integrates the most up to date educational methods while adhering to…

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The online platform Pemptousia will organize and host the fifth online synaxis, or assembly, from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, with children and young people. The online assembly is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 21 at 19.30 Athens time, or 17.30 GMT. A special…

The temporary vicar – or locum tenens – of the Patriarchate of Serbia, the Metropolitan Bishop of Dabar-Bosna, His Eminence Hrizostom, this week noted that the Serbian Church had underestimated the danger emanating from the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, one of the victims of the pandemic was reposed Serbian Patriarch Irinej, along with dozens…

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias this week addressed, via a remote connection, then annual New Year’s pie-cutting ceremony held by the Athens-based Society of Imvros natives. Dendias made a particular reference to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, himself a native of the northeast Aegean island that was handed to Turkey…

Ninety-one employees of the Byzantine and Christian Museum in central Athens have addressed a letter to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, expressing their opposition to a proposed change in the museum’s management and operational framework, while stressing that for many citizens Byzantine and post-Byzantine era artifacts and heirlooms represent supreme values, one closely linked with…

The abbot of the Holy Monastery of Stavrovouni on Cyprus, the Elder Archimandrite Athanasios, reposed in the Lord on Monday, at the age of 95. An exodios funeral service and interment was held today at the monastery. The reposed elder, a native of the village of Assia, devoted 80 years of his life to monasticism.

A particularly disturbing annual report was again unveiled this week by the Opendoors USA organization, whereby the latter warns that more than 340 million Christians worldwide live in places where they experience high levels of persecution, simply for following Christ. Those figures translate into one in eight believers around the world. Each year, the World…

The Church today venerates the memory of Macarius the Great of Egypt. Today is also the feast day of Mark, Bishop of Ephesus.