The Feast of Holy Pentecost – the 50th day after the Great and Holy Feast of Easter and 10 days after the Feast of the Ascension of Christ – was celebrated on Monday by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. A Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, officiated by…

  Debate continued on Tuesday in a relevant Parliament committee over a draft bill on changes in Greece’s public education sector, which among others, retains the low number of hours for weekly instruction in religious studies, while excluding this lesson from end-of-the-year exit exams.

  The Metropolitan-Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Eminence Amphilochios, again referred to the major struggle facing the Orthodox Church in the small Adriatic country and the continued persecution of the Church, its hierarchs and faithful by the current Montenegrin government. His Eminence spoke from the cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Podgorica,…

  Turkey’s increasingly Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, continued his provocations this week by again threatening to reconvert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, nearly nine decades after a secular Turkish government turned the greatest of all cathedrals of eastern Christendom into a widely-visited museum. Taking to Turkey’s state-run radio-television network on Monday evening, Erdogan…

GOMNJ VIRTUAL GREEK SCHOOL GRADUATION TO BE HELD SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 2020 AT 2:00pm Westfield, NJ June 8, 2020: It is with much joy and enthusiasm that His Eminence, MetropolitanEvangelos of New Jersey announces that the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of NewJersey will host a Virtual Greek School Graduation on Sunday, June 14, 2020 at2:00pm. Unfortunately, due…

On Monday, May 26/ June 8, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the Monday of the Holy Spirit as it is ordained by the book of Pentecostarion, a day especially dedicated in honour of the Holy Spirit, Who came from the Father through the Son and enlightened the illiterate Disciples at the Upper Room…

We announce to the pious flock of the holy Archdiocese of Australia that, on occasion of the commemoration of the Holy Glorious Apostle Bartholomew, the day on which our Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew celebrates his name-day (11 June), our Eminent Archbishop and the God-loving Bishops of Australia will celebrate the Divine Liturgy as follows: – His…

Elder Panaretos Filotheitis The late Papa-Nikodimos, a spiritual father from the Skete of Kavsokalyvia told me the following story, which is recorded in Athonite Patristic manuscripts. There was a devout Christian who went to his confessor for fifteen years and told him his human weaknesses. One day he went as usual to make his confession,…

    Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral New York, New York Beloved Faithful, Today, on this Monday following the Holy Pentecost, the Church celebrates in a special way the Third Person of the Holy Trinity. For it is the Holy Spirit Whom we invoke upon the Holy Gifts of Bread and Wine, for them to…