On 12th Sepetember 2020, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, accompanied by His Grace Nicodemus Bishop of Nitria and Exarch of the patriarchate of Alexandria in Cyprus, visited the Venerable Metropolitan George of Paphos, in the presence of his Beatitude Chrysosotomos Archbishop of Cyprus at the Diocese of the…

On Monday, Patriarch Daniel attended the Divine Liturgy celebrated at the Chapel of the Romanian People’s Salvation Cathedral. In his homily, he spoke about the significance of the veneration of the Holy Cross in Orthodoxy, making a brief history of the events that led to the establishment of the feast of the Exaltation of the…

  Once again, our limitations become our greatest resource. Early in 2020, the Department of Sacred Music relaunched our Facebook group and email services in preparation for providing you with more content. We started in July with our Virtual Sacred Music Institute, followed in August with our advanced chant session on the Doxastikon for the…

Although the Ionian Village Summer Program was cancelled due to COVID-19, many former participants (campers, staff members, former administration, medical volunteers and clergy) were given the opportunity to gather online. Weekly “virtual” reunions were held from mid-July through mid-August. These reunions were organized into decades (1970’s, 80’s,90’s, 2000’s, 2010’s) and were hosted by Fr. Gary…

Our History Bears Witness In the apse of the Saint Apollinaire (1) Cathedral in Ravenna is depicted a huge cross that dates from the 6th century (549 CE). This cross bears witness to the faith awareness concerning the Theology of the cross and its relation to divine light. It figures the transfiguration, where the Lord…

  The Venice-based Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies has announced a new memorandum of cooperation with the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, according to a message on social media posted by Greek Deputy FM Costas Vlasis.

  The Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, was quoted by Russian media as advising the faithful to be vaccinated as soon as possible against the COVID-19 virus. He was referring to a Russian-made vaccine, which was registered last month as the first vaccine against COVID-19 worldwide. Hilarion, who is the Moscow Patriarchate’s…

  The visiting Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, was received by the island republic foreign minister, Nikos Christodoulides, with a press release by the Patriarchate referring to talks over a variety of issues, especially the Church of Alexandria’s good works throughout the African continent and how the government…

  In spite a recent agreement signed in the White House between the Serbian president and representatives of Kosovo’s Albanians, which includes the continued protection of Orthodox heritage and sites in the province, extremists continue to spread ethnic and religious hatred towards the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija, while attempting to appropriate the latter’s…