Department of Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations The Department of Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations is pleased to announce a four-part webinar series on Greening the Parish launching in January 2021. The series will feature conversations between expert panelists on what it means to be a steward of creation through the lens of our Orthodox…

New Options for Gift-Giving Connect Donors with Global Humanitarian Programs With a refresh of its popular gift catalog, International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) is offering gift-givers ways to share with loved ones while helping people in need at home and abroad. With new gift items reflecting a range of humanitarian services, IOCC’s Gifts of Love…

Recognizing the unprecedented situations and complex difficulties that have been created by the Pandemic COVID-19, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has allotted the Network of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for Pastoral Health Care the responsibility of organizing an online Consultation with the theme: “The Pastoring Church in the days of the Pandemic”. The Consultation will provide…

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Traditional Christmas carols were sung to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Tuesday afternoon by the educators and graduates of the Bosporus metropolis’ Zographeion Lyceum, led by the secondary school’s director, Ioannis Demirtzoglou. The Christmas carols resounded throughout Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Phanar-district seat, as the Ecumenical Patriarch looked on from the…

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, convened a new Archdiocesan Council that will convene until the 2022 Clergy Laity Congress. Just prior to the meeting, the Archbishop addressed the newly established “Senators for Orthodoxy and Hellenism,” a special new organization that brings together clergy and laity from around the Archdiocese with tremendous expertise and…

This week witnessed the completion of the transfer of a cathedral in downtown Stockholm to the Holy Metropolis of Sweden and all Scandinavia. In a statement after the signing of a donation contract, the Metropolitan Sweden and All Scandinavia, His Eminence Cleopas, expressed his deep gratitude to the donors for the new parish, which will be dedicated to neomartyr St. George…

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic accompanied visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei on a tour of the St. Sava Cathedral in Belgrade on Tuesday, where the Russian delegation laid flowers on the grave of the reposed in the Lord Serbian Patriarch Irinej. On the occasion, Lavrov read out a letter by Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the…

This week’s announcement, by the Greek government, of a slight easing in pandemic-related restrictions on Church-going means that the faithful will be allowed to venerate the Holy Relics of the saint in Zakynthos this week, among others. As foreseen, strict public health protocols will still be in place, such as the mandatory wearing of face…