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His Holiness Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow and All Russia (+2008) served as a priest in the town of Jõhvi in his native Estonia from 1950 to 1957. And yesterday, September 14, the Orthodox faithful of Jõhvi rejoiced as “Alyoshenka has returned home.” The congregation of the Church of the Theophany celebrated both the 125th…

  On the Cross, as on a balance beam, we journey on a narrow path that leads heavenward. In its Universal Exaltation, we remind ourselves that it is an animate and life-giving Tree, a living Teacher of the truth of God’s love for us, and of the possibility of love for one another. Following today’s…

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  Well-known Hollywood star Mickey Rourke spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency and journalist Pepi Economaki on his role in the upcoming movie “Man of God”, based on the life, works and miracles of St. Nektarios of Aegina, a 20th century saint. Rourke arrived in Greece for the production’s shooting, and appeared in the interview…

  Another chapel on the beleaguered eastern Aegean island of Lesvos has been targeted by groups of third country asylum seekers and irregular migrants, with an unknown NGO having set up a tent-shelterinside and outside the chapel of St. George. The images that have seen the light of day have caused sadness among the faithful…

  A con-celebratory wake and litany of the Holy Cincture of the Theotokos was held overnight at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Mount Athos, officiated by the Metropolitan of Corinth, His Eminence Dionysios, and co-officiated by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of Vatopedi, and several other hieromonks, priests and deacons.  …

Primary and secondary schools opened throughout Greece on Monday, with the customary blessing ceremony to inaugurate the new academic year. Pupils and educators are required to wear masks while in classes, while school premises will be repeatedly disinfected. Each pupil was handed two masks and a a new canteen for drinking water or beverages, as…

  The Church today commemorates the Elevation of the Venerable and Life-Giving Cross. It was St. Helen, the mother of St. Constantine the Great, who undertook, even while in advanced age, the hardships of a journey to Jerusalem to search for the cross, in roughly the year 325. The venerable Helen had a pagan temple…