On September 14 in the Holy Orthodox Church we commemorate the Universal Exaltation (Elevation) of the Honored and Life-giving Cross. Let all the trees of the wood, planted from the beginning of time, rejoice; for their nature hath been sanctified by the stretching of Christ on the Tree. Wherefore, now, we worship Him, lifted…

New York, NY – The 45th Clergy Laity Congress, a first-ever virtual event concluded today after a successful Plenary Session. All necessary resolutions for the proper operation and administration of the Archdiocese were effected in an atmosphere of professionalism and Christian brotherhood. In his Opening Remarks to the Plenary Session, Archbishop Elpidophoros offered the following…

  The Holy Archdiocese of Australia, our Shepherd, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios, the God-loving Bishops and all the benevolent clergy, with pain of soul, pray for the divine consolation and strengthening of all our sisters and brothers, who are profoundly being tested with the loss of their loved ones due to the coronavirus pandemic and…

Third part of the 3rd online assembly from Mount Athos, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, with children and young people, was posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency. The assembly took place last Aug. 22.

Montenegro prime minister-in-waiting Zdravko Krivokapic, the leader of the “For the Future of Montenegro” bloc, this week told reporters that he only entered politics in 2020 amid the furor over a controversial law that forces the Orthodox Church in the country to prove ownership of its assets and relics. The law, passed in 2019, is…

  The Metropolitan and Russian Orthodox Exarch of Singapore and South-East Asia, His Eminence Sergius, this week held a video-conference with Singapore’s Foreign Minister, Vivian Balakrishnan, with talks revolving around the establishment of a Russian cultural center and Russian Orthodox Church on the island state.   

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All-Holiness Bartholomew I, on Wednesday sent his virtual greetings to the Archdiocese of America’s 45th Clergy-Laity congress, as it commenced its work for the first time in a virtual setting. His All-Holiness greeted the more than 1,100 delegates, in part, with the following exhortation. “…As we convey the commendation of…

Amid the continuing provocations, war-mongering and belligerence on the part of the Islamist Erdogan government of Turkey throughout the Near East, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated his call for the European Union to impose ‘meaningful’, as he said, sanctions on Turkey — unless Ankara pulls its military assets from maritime regions in the eastern…

    The Church today venerates the memory of Menodora, Metrodora and Nymphodora, the Martyrs. This trio of sisters contested for the faith during the reign of Emperor Maximian, in the year 304.