Early in the afternoon on the firth Sunday of Lent, 6 April 2025, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, made his way down to the venerable Patriarchal Church and conducted a Trisagion for the repose of the soul of the late former Metropolitan Andreas of Dryinoupolis, Pogoniani and Konitsa, surrounded by clergy of the Patriarchal Court…

On the Fifth Sunday of Lent, 6 April 2025, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was present joined in prayer at the venerable Patriarchal Church of Saint George during the three-year memorial service for the Late Metropolitan Germanos of Tranoupolis. The Divine Liturgy was presided over by His Eminence Metropolitan Andreas of Forty Churches, who was…

On Saturday, 29th March 2025, the Orthodox Community of St Columba in Inverness had the joy of welcoming His Grace Bishop Raphael of Ilion, who celebrated the Divine Liturgy, assisted by the Revd Protopresbyter John Garnett. During the Liturgy, His Grace offered a homily on the theme of repentance, drawing inspiration from the teachings of…

On the evening of Sunday, 30th March 2025, at the Church of All Saints in Camden Town, London, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas presided over the fifth Lenten Vespers, joined in prayer by numerous clergy from across London, including the Revd Protopresbyter Georgios Zapheirakos, Priest-in-Charge, the Revd Oeconomos Kristian Akselberg and the Revd Presbyter Konstantinos Mamouris….

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America welcomed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ioannis (Yiannis) Loverdos at the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Archdioceses in New York. Accompanying the Deputy Minister was the Consul General of Greece in New York, Ms. Iphigenia Kanara. Archbishop Elpidophoros congratulated the Deputy Minister on his recent appointment and presented him…

On Wednesday, the 20th of March/2nd of April 2025, His Beatitude the Patriarch of Serbia Prorfirije, co-celebrated the Pre-Sanctified Liturgy with His Beatitude the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos, at the Horrendous Golgotha. The following Eminent High Priests also co-served: Metropolitan Kyriakos of Nazareth, Metropolitan Hesychios of Capitolia, the Assistant Bishop of Toplica, His Grace Petar,…

On Tuesday evening, 2 April 2025, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Bulgaria presided over the Small Compline with the entire Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete at the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Nedelya in Sofia. At the conclusion of the Great Canon, Patriarch Daniel offered a deeply moving homily on the need for repentance…

The Theological School of Halki was visited on Wednesday, 2 April 2025, by the members of the Board of Directors of the Non-Profit organisation ‘Axion Hellas’, under the leadership of its President, Ms. Aliki Drakouli. The visitors were received by the Abbot, His Grace Bishop Kassianos of Aravissos, in the Great Synod Hall of the…

By His Grace Bishop Prodromos of Toliara and Southern Madagascar When two years ago I first travelled to the unknown and distant Fifth Continent, Australia, with the blessing of the Father and Patriarch Theodoros of Alexandria, I felt anxious, perhaps even somewhat afraid, in the face of the unknown and the different mentality of the…