The Academy is growing rapidly, together with its children! It has started a new campaign to help remedy its limited capacity issue and to begin construction on a much-needed, permanent new campus. These developments will ensure that Three Hierarchs Academy continues to grow in a sustainable manner, offering an environment of love, founded on Orthodox…

December 3, 2020 Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church Orange, Connecticut Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Tonight, we continue our journey to the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ through three very special days in the life of the Church, which begin with your Heavenly Patroness, Saint Barbara the Great Martyr.It is Barbara whom we…

Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University’s Center for Byzantine Studies, has announced the newly published volume by His Grace Bishop Joachim (Cotsonis) of Amissos, Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Volume 7: Anonymous, with Bilateral Religious Imagery (Dumbarton Oaks: Washington, DC, 2020). A distinguished and globally recognized Byzantinist, His Grace is…

The Russian Orthodox Church’s Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, this week honored Russian theology professor emeritus Boris Alexandrovich for his long-standing contributions to the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department of External Church Relations. His Eminence Hilarion, who is the chairman of the Department and a permanent member of the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Moscow,…

A variety of very high-quality videos posted by the Athens-based Foundation of the Hellenic World on its YouTube channel include the documentaries “Hagia Sophia: 1500 years of History” along with the production “Asia Minor: What Time Has not Erased”, as well as numerous other digital audiovisual materials.             

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, on Friday received visiting Greek Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos at the Patriarchal Monastery of St. Savas the Sanctified, in Alexandria. The Greek minister is in the North African country to observe the final phase of a joint military exercise by…

Deutsche Welle’s Turkish service this week confirmed that UNESCO wants to examine official Turkey’s alterations to the Hagia Sophia and the Chora Church, both World Heritage Sites and iconic Orthodox basilicas that the Erdogan regime reconverted into mosques. DW quoted the online news portal Duvar. The United Nation’s cultural body has said that it wants…

Churches remained closed to worshippers on Friday for the feast day of St. Barbara the Great Martyr, while annual litanies and commemorations have been cancelled due to restrictions to prevent exposure to the Covid-19 virus. An Archieratical Divine Liturgy was held on Friday morning at the Cathedral of St. Barbara in the old quarter of…

The Church today venerates the memory of Barbara the Great Martyr. Saint Barbara was from Heliopolis of Phoenicia, modern-day Lebanon, and lived during the reign of Maximian. She achieved the crown of martyrdom in 290 after suffering many torments for not renouncing her faith. In Orthodox hagiography St. Barbara is portrayed with a chalice in…