After more than four months, churches in the Melbourne area and throughout the State of Victoria, in Australia, opened their doors to the faithful over the weekend, initially with a limit of 10 worshippers — set after a relevant lockdown ended. For instance, the Feast of St. David of Evia was celebrated on Sunday…

  Monday marks the 29-year anniversary of the enthronement of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, at the patriarchal cathedral of St. George in 1991 — as the 270th Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch. Bartholomew was born on the northeast Aegean island of Imbros in February 1940, the…

  An online address by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, entitled “Lessons from Athos”, has been posted on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency. The address was part of events for the 2020 Demetria events at the Cathedral of St. Demetrious in Piraeus last month….

  The funeral for the reposed Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, Amphilochios, took place on Sunday at the Cathedral of Christ’s Resurrection in the Adriatic country’s capital of Podgorica. Thousands of people lined the streets of the Montenegro capital to pay their last respects to the reposed Metropolitan, who was one of the most…

  French authorities continued a manhunt on Monday for a suspect that critically wounded a Greek Orthodox priest in Lyon, France over the weekend. In an announcement, the Orthodox Metropolis of France expressed great sorrow over the attack on Fr. Nikolaos Kakavelakis, who was wounded by a suspect firing a sawed-off shotgun outside the Church…

  A significant protocol of cooperation was signed today at the Archdiocese of Athens between the Church of Greece and the Greek state to prevent domestic violence, a problem that has reportedly increased during the pandemic. The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, accompanied by the Metropolitan of Ilion, Archarnon and Petroupoli,…

  The Church today venerates the memory of the holy Martyrs Acindynos, Pegasios, Aphthonios, Elpidophoros and Anempodistos. These Martyrs contested in Persia, in roughly the year 330, during the reign of Sapor (Shapur) II, King of Persia. Acindynos, Pegasios and Anempodistos were Persian Christians who confessed Christ before the ruler, and were put to many…

Based on the recent governmental guidelines regarding the approaching lockdown affecting places of worship, the Archdiocese, considering both the spiritual and pastoral needs of the faithful, announces the following: On Wednesday the 4th of November 2020, at 8:30am, Matins and Divine Liturgy will be celebrated at the Archdiocesan Chapel, offering the opportunity for the faithful…

  His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel sent a message of solidarity with the Greek Orthodox Church and the Greek people, following the strong earthquake that shook the island of Samos on Friday, Oct. 30. The message is addressed to Archbishop Hieronymos II of Athens and all of Greece: His Beatitude Hieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and…