Cabinet ministers of the government of Cyprus will convene on Tuesday to decide on the manner in which places of worship in the free areas of the island republic will open during the upcoming Holy 12-day Christmas celebrations – including the number of worshippers allowed inside churches during services. The Archbishop of Cyprus, His Eminence…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, has urged all to abide by precautionary measures imposed by competent authorities for as long as the Covid-19 pandemic continues, in a homily read out on Saturday, during an online Christmas event with members of the associations representing the Greek Orthodox faithful of Constantinople and…

The Church today venerates the memory of Juliana of Nicomedia, and her 630 companion Martyrs. St. Juliana achieved the crown of martyrdom in the year 299 when beheaded, and after suffering numerous brutal torments. Some 500 men and 130 women witnessed her devoutness in faith and thus believed in Christ. They, too, were also beheaded.

“Today our Church celebrates St Ignatios the God-bearer. The tradition says that he was the child that Christ held in his arms and said to everyone “If you do not become like this child, you will not inherit eternal life”. “What do the children possess that we don’t, and why can they enter the Kingdom…

Sunday the 20th of December 2020 marked the inaugural State-wide Christmas Carols (Kalanda) event for the Archdiocesan District of Adelaide. For many years, a number of parishes across Adelaide had been having their own Christmas carols. But for the first time this year, with the blessing and encouragement of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios and his…

On 28th Sunday after Pentecost, on Serbian Children’s day (Detinjci), His Grace Bishop Siluan of Australia and New Zealand celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of Saint Nicholas in Blacktown. On this occasion, the Bishop blessed the cross which was raised and mounted on the restored dome of the church.The day before, on…

  On Saturday, December 6/19, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of our Father among the Saints Nikolaos Archbishop of Myra in Lycia. On this feast the Church commemorates that Saint Nikolaos was the Archbishop of Lycia, “as a rule of faith, an icon of meekness” who “achieved the heights of humility, riches by poverty”,…

On Friday, December 5/18, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of our Holy Father Savvas the Sanctified at his Holy Monastery in the Judea desert, by the bank of brook Cedron, which leads to the Dead Sea. This old and respectable Monastery was founded by Saint Savvas himself, in A.D. 500. Saint Savvas came to…

On the feast day of Saint Nicholas of Myra, 19 December 2020, His Grace Bishop Arsenije of Nis officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Cathedral church in Nis. The Bishop was concelebrated by protopresbyter-staurophor Milutin Timotijevic, dean of the Seminary Saint Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Nis; protopresbyter-staurophors Miodrag Pavlovic, Borislav Stamenkovic and Vladica…