His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa, is currently undertaking a missionary tour in Uganda. On Tuesday, 18 February 2025, after the arrival of the Primate of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, the first stop of his visit was the country’s Presidential Palace where he met with the President of the…

At midday on Tuesday, 18 February 2025, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew welcomed the Prefect of Beyoğlu (Pera), Mr. Atakan Atasoy, with his wife, to the Phanar. The Prefect attended a meal which was hosted in his honour by His All-Holiness, at the Marasleion School adjacent to the central Patriarchal complex, where they had previously…

His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa, celebrated his name day in Kenya with a Patriarchal Divine Liturgy at the Holy Church of Saint Makarios of Egypt at the Patriarchal School “Archbishop of Cyprus Makarios III”. The Patriarchal Divine Liturgy was attended by Their Eminences, Elder Metropolitan Makarios of Nairobi,…

The Holy Archdiocese of Australia is organising a 14-day Pilgrimage Tour from 5th May to 18th May 2025, to Athens, Constantinople, and Tbilisi in Georgia. The Pilgrimage, which will be led by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, will be conducted in collaboration with the travel agency Premium Holidays and will include the following itinerary:…

On Saturday afternoon, 15 February, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was present joined in prayer at the Great Vespers which took place at the venerable Patriarchal Church of Saint George, at the end of which he welcomed a group of Teachers and Students from the 10th Lyceum of Katerini. During his address, His All-Holiness also…

On 15 February 2025, The Church, in Greece and abroad, honoured the memory of Saint Anthimos of Chios, who shone in recent years. The main celebration and focus of the Feast Day took place with the Great Vespers and the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Monastery of Panagia Voitheia of Chios, founded by the Saint,…

On Sunday, February 3/16, 2025, the memory of Saint Simeon the God-receiver was celebrated in his Holy Monastery, located in the New Jerusalem in Katamon, in the church where his tomb and a small relic of his remains are also kept. The Divine Liturgy was led by His Beatitude, our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem,…

The Patriarchate of Jerusalem unequivocally condemns actions such as those of the so-called “Philanthropic Market,” self-styled association “Friends of the Well of Jacob” (based in Nicosia, Cyprus), which falsely claim to raise funds for the medical expenses and protection of the health of Archimandrite Ioustinos, the Hegumen of the Jacob’s Well Pilgrimage, from attacks in…

On Saturday, 2/15 February 2025, the Patriarchate celebrated the Despotic feast of the Meeting of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple: In the Central Monastic Church of the Holy Constantine and Helen, with a Divine Liturgy led by the ministering priest of the Church, Archimandrite Kallistos, with His Beatitude presiding, who also chanted during…