Princeton, NJ: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce that the Overseers of the Gennadius Library have selected the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople as the 2025 recipient of the prestigious Gennadius Prize. This highest honor of the Gennadius Library recognizes outstanding contributions to Greek learning and Hellenism. The Ecumenical Patriarchate…

On Saturday, December 7, 2024, a group of fifteen Slavophone believers visited the Holy Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior in Gapyeong in order to work on cleaning the church and the exterior of the church from falling tree leaves. They also cleaned the area around the tomb of the ever-deceased Metropolitan of Pisidia,…

Amidst the fear and anxiety for the political stability of our country, we celebrated on Thursday and Friday, December 5 and 6, 2024, the feast of the holy and glorious St. Nicholas, the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia, at the sacred Cathedral in Seoul. On the eve of the feast day, after the Great…

The Archdiocesan Chapel is now open for worship once again, following completion of the first phase of its new icons in the Holy Altar. The gifted and diligent team of iconographers has adorned the dome with the icon of Christ the All-Powerful (Χριστὸς Παντοκράτωρ) and, beneath it, the icon of the Most Holy Mother of…

His Grace Bishop Iakovos presided at both Great Vespers and Matins and celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the community feast of St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Kentish Town. The Very Reverend Archimandrites Chrysostomos Michailides, Vasileios Emmanouil and Vissarion Kokliotis, along with Protopresbyters Constantinos Garivaldinos, Nikolaos Kokkinos and Œcomomos Kristian Akselberg concelebrated at the Hierarchical…

On Friday, 6th December 2024, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain attended the Annual Banquet of the Guild of Freemen at Guildhall, London. Master Lisa Rutter, of Greek Cypriot heritage, hosted the event, which brought together members of the Guild and distinguished guests. Archbishop Nikitas offered grace at the start of the…

His Beatitude John X Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, welcomed his Excellency Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who was heading a Greek governmental delegation, at the Archdiocese of Beirut and its Dependencies in Ashrafieh. The meeting was attended by His Eminence Elias Audi, Metropolitan of Beirut and its Dependencies. During the meeting, both…

Glory in the highest to God in Trinity, through Whom His goodwill is revealed to men, that as the friend of man He may deliver Adam from the ancestral curse. (Troparion of the Sixth Hour of Christmas Eve) This joyful message of the redemption of the human race is experienced during the holy days of…

On the evening of December 2/15, 2024, a Byzantine music choir event took place at the Holy Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos with the performance of the School of Zion students under the lead of the Byzantine choir leader of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Secretary of the Holy Synod, Hierodeacon…