Panagia Pantanassa is one of the oldest churches in Athens located at one of the busiest spots in Athens, Monastiraki Square. The church is referred to as a Big Monastery in a post Byzantine sigillium of 1678 and it is thus named during these years. Furthermore, in the same document it is mentioned that during…

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BOSTON – The Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology dismissed six professors, three from each School as its restructuring process begins. As per an official news release issued on Wednesday afternoon, “all of HCHC’s expenses were evaluated, but the largest expense has been faculty salaries. To achieve the necessary balanced budget,…

  Let us pray. Most merciful and loving God, As we gather in soberness of mind and of heart for the sake of our Nation and its future, We pray that You would shine the light of Your Countenance Upon the Delegates of this Convention, And upon Vice President Joe Biden for the highest office…

In his sermon on Sunday, August 16, His Eminence Metropolitan Elijah of Beirut spoke about the devastating explosion that occurred in the Lebanese capital two weeks ago, offering the people a word of encouragement and hope. “It has been two weeks since a terrible explosion destroyed buildings and left the pain of the departed. Citizens…

The Transfiguration of the Lord in the Transfiguration City: The hierarchal Liturgy. – Meeting of Bishop Dimitrije with Mr. Dodik. – Festive evening and a cross procession in Trebinje. The Church community of Trebinje, Hercegovina, marked the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord with the Holy hierarchal Liturgy, as the central event of the…

  His Eminence Metropolitan Christopher (Kovacevich) of the Libertyville-Chicago Metropolitanate and Senior Hierarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America, reposed in the Lord on the eve of the Great Feast of the Transfiguration, Wednesday, August 18, 2010. For most of his 60 years of devoted service in the Serbian Orthodox Church,…

The faithful of the Diocese of Nis celebrated the Transfiguration of the Lord with their Patriarch. On the eve of the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, on August 18, 2020, His Grace Arsenije, Bishop of Nis, together with archimandrite Dionisije, Abbess Melania, the sisterhood and numerous priests and faithful people of the Diocese…

The tombstone of the world-famous Russian author Feodor Dostoyevsky at the St. Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg has undergone a thorough restoration, in time for next year’s celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth. His grave is located in the Necropolis of the Masters of the Arts just outside the Lavra walls. Work…