Presided over by the Abbot, His Grace Bishop Kassianos of Aravissos, the festive Matins and Hierarchical Divine Liturgy were celebrated on Palm Sunday, 13 April 2025, at the chapel of the Theological School of Halki. During the service, the customary prayer for the blessing of the palm branches was also read. Faithful from the island…

Palm Sunday was celebrated with solemnity and spiritual devotion at the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Phanar. His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided over the Divine Liturgy, concelebrated by Their Eminences, Metropolitan Meliton of Philadelphia, Metropolitan Irenaios of Myriophyton and Peristasis, Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Myra, Metropolitan Theoleptos of Iconium, Metropolitan Ioakeim of Bursa, and Metropolitan Theodoros…

By His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia Reverend Fathers,Your Excellencies Honorable Ambassadors of Greece and Cyprus, Honorable Civic and Community Leaders, Dearly Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Friends and Benefactors of the Holy Metropolis of Sweden and All Scandinavia, Today, on Palm Sunday, Christ enters Jerusalem riding on a donkey, and…

Beloved Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Behold! The Bridegroom comes to us… In the middle of this night, ἐν τῷ μέσῳ τῆς νυκτός. In the middles of our lives.1 The Bridegroom appears before us – we who are His Bride, the Holy Church, called to be “without stain, wrinkle, or any such thing … holy…

On Sunday April 13, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America celebrated the Orthros and Divine Liturgy of Palm Sunday at Saint Paul Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Hempstead, New York. In his sermon, His Eminence remarked that “in entering the Holy City on a donkey, the Lord shows that the triumph He offers is not one…

On Tuesday, a seven-tonne cross was installed at approximately 130 meters above sea level atop the main dome of Romania’s National Cathedral. “The top engineering moment was elevated by the blessing service officiated by His Grace Varlaam of Ploiești,” said Fr. Nicolae Crîngașu, Patriarchal Counselor coordinating the Department for Church Monuments and Construction at the…

By the mercy of God, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine, To the fullness of the Church, grace, mercy, and peace from the All-Holy and Life-Giving Tomb of the Risen Christ. “Though Thou didst descend into the tomb, O Immortal One, Yet didst Thou destroy the power of Hades; And Thou…

With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, ten new believers were welcomed into the Orthodox Church, at the Parish of the Resurrection of Christ, in the suburb of Kogarah in Sydney. His Grace Bishop Christodoulos of Magnesia, Parish Proistamenos and Chief Secretary of the Holy Eparchial Synod of the Archdiocese of Australia,…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is the spiritual leader of 300 million Eastern Orthodox Christians whose pioneering efforts to bridge scientific and spiritual understandings of humanity’s relationship with the natural world have brought together people of different faiths to heed a call for stewardship of creation. On Thursday, 10 April 2025, the John Templeton Foundation,…