The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, marked the beginning of the new academic year in the country by underlining that university freshmen need heightened support by their families, their schools and the Church, something that is now more crucial than ever, due to the coronavirus pandemic.   In a message for the start…

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin continued a private two-day pilgrimage to the monastic community of Mount Athos on Friday. The Russian prime minister is hosted at the St. Panteleimon Monastery, where monks of mostly Russian descent reside. He entered the Athonite community by boat after first arriving at Thessaloniki’s Macedonia airport, accompanied by a relatively…

The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople’s newly enthroned Metropolitan of Imvros and Tenedos, His Eminence Kirillos, arrived in the country this week for a series of meetings with top Greek leadership and groups of expatriates from the two northeast Aegean islands. Imvros and Tenedos, home to an autochthonous Greek population for millennia, were granted to the…

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, on Thursday met with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the State Department in Washington, with talks focusing directly on a number of issues important to the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Greek-American community, and to the people of Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. Afterwards, the Archbishop noted that “…..

The Church today venerates the memory of Euphrosyne of Alexandria. The righteous Mother Euphrosyne lived during the reign of St. Theodosius the Younger in the 5th century. Forsaking her father’s wealth, she renamed herself Smaragdus, while pretending to be a eunuch of the imperial palace. She dressed herself as a man and entered a monastery,…

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Every year on September 24, the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates the icon of Panagia Myrtidiotissa which was found on Kythera in the 14th century. “The Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Of the Myrtle Tree” (Myrtidiotissa) is now in the monastery church of Myrtides on the island of Kythera. It derives its name from the…

On Tuesday September 22, 2020, His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph met online via Zoom with the eight 2020 Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese Francis Maria scholarship recipients. Each of the eight students received $5,000 in scholarship money. Father Joseph and Khouria Kathleen Purpura represented the Francis Maria Scholarship Committee and the Maria family at the meeting, in…

  On Sunday, 20 September 2020 in Perth WA, the Australian Hellenic council together with SAE (Council of Greeks Abroad), presented a discussion on “The Return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece”. The guest speakers were Simon Millman (MLA) and Evan Kakulas, a legal personality and the National President of the Australian Hellenic Council. Mr…