Thanksgiving was just a few days ago… (It may be hard to remember after days of leftover turkey.) As it does every year, Thanksgiving comes and goes quickly. We spend a few hours trying to feel grateful, but then start looking for Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals so we can buy more stuff….

His Eminence Metropolitan Isaiah of Denver has announced the appointment of Reverend Fr. Louis Christopulos as the new Chancellor of the Metropolis of Denver beginning full-time on December 1, 2020. Fr. Christopulos is a native son and a long-time priest in the Metropolis of Denver. He brings many years of administrative and pastoral parish service…

November 30, 2020 Archdiocesan Chapel of Saint Paul New York, New York Beloved Brethren in Christ, Τὸν κήρυκα τῆς πίστεως, καὶ ὑπηρέτην τοῦ Λόγου, Ἀνδρέαν εὐφημήσωμεν! [*] Indeed, let us praise with worthy hymns the Preacher of the Faith and the Servant of the Logos, Andrew the First-Called Disciple of the Lord. On this, the…

  On Monday, November 30, 2020, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada, together with the Ecumenical Patriarchate Archons in Canada, organized a virtual meeting to discuss the current state of the First Throne of Orthodoxy. The meeting coincided with the celebration of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called and Patronal Feast of the Patriarchate. The…

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On Sunday, November 16/29, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the Holy Hieromartyr Philoumenos at the Nablus shrine of Jacob’s well in Samaria. On this feast, the Church of Jerusalem commemorates the Holy Apostle Matthew along with Saint Philoumenos the Hagiotaphite. Saint Philoumenos came from Cyprus and having served as a Hagiotaphite in various…

The first online assembly from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, with French-speaking faithful, took place today. The Elder Ephraim’s address and answers to questions were simultaneously translated into English, French and Romanian, with the online address hosted by the online magazine Pemptousia and…

The Missionary Home Society this week announced that various Orthodox patristic and liturgical texts will be translated into Swahili, and distributed to the faithful in the east Africa country of Tanzania. The society was founded in 2017 with the purpose of supporting Orthodox missionary work in Africa.

Greece’s consul general in the western Australia city of Perth, Georgia Karasiotou, on Monday paid her first official visit to the new offices of the Holy Archdiocese of Western Australia, as well as to the offices of the St. Basil Home for elders, which is housed in the same building. The Greek diplomat was warmly…