The Department of Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America has produced three new episodes of its miniseries “A Conversation on Racial Reconciliation,” with Archdeacon John Chryssavgis. The new interviews aim to contribute to the ongoing conversation, in the Church and across the nation, on racism and offer a resource…

NEW YORK – The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America received with much joy and gratitude the news from the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, that His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew together with the Holy and Sacred Synod accepted the proposal of the Holy Eparchial Synod of our Archdiocese for the election of…

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  The Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, this week visited the official residence of the Italian ambassador to Russia, Pasquale Terracciano, where the former met with the top envoys of another eight countries in Russia, including Greece’s ambassador in Moscow, Ekaterini Nasika. Hilarion is also the head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external…

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Tuesday morning received the new Exarch of the Holy Sepulcher in Athens, His Most Reverend Archimandrite Rafael Grivas. The Holy and Sacred Synod of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem announced the appointment of Archimandrite Grivas last month as its Exarch in Athens.

The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross was celebrated on Sunday, a week after the main Feast at the Holy Monastery of the Holy Cross, which is located in new West Jerusalem, near the Jewish Knesset. This Monastery hosted the Higher Education Theological School of the Patriarchate from 1845 to 1909, with many…

Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of glorious mega-city of Constantinople, known today in Turkish as Istanbul, has opened a new municipal Office of Religious Affairs. Members of the Greek Orthodox community of Neochori, in fact, hosted members of the newly created office, while expressing their appreciation for a visit by the former to the Cathedral of…

  A three-day meeting of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for October began today, presided by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All-Holiness Bartholomew I. The hierarchs of the Holy Synod will carry out their three-day work at the Monastery of the Life-Giving Font of the Theotokos, which is more spacious, and where…

  The Church today venerates the memory of the Holy and Glorious Apostle Thomas. He was one of the Twelve, a Galilean by birth. Sources saySt. Thomas preached to the Parthians, Persians, Medes, Bactrians and neighboring nations as far as India. A portion of the saint’s holy relics have been translated to the Monastery of…