August 25, 2020 Prot. No.529 + B A R T H O L O M E W BY GOD’S MERCY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE-NEW ROME AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH TO ALL THE PLENITUDE OF THE CHURCH GRACE, PEACE AND MERCY FROM THE MAKER OF ALL CREATION OUR LORD, GOD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST Dearest brother Hierarchs and…

The faithful of the Parish of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Jeonju, with the participation of the Metropolitan of Korea Fr. Ambrosios, assisted by Presbyter Fr. Hillarion Jeong, and Deacon Yohan Park celebrated the feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, according to the ecclesiastical order. On the day before the feast, many believers…

    September 1, 2020 New Ecclesiastical Year The Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy Esteemed Members of the Metropolitan Council, Esteemed Members of the Parish Councils, Philoptochos Sisterhood, Faculty and Students of the Catechetical and Greek Afternoon Schools, Directors and Participants of all Youth Organizations, and all devout Orthodox Christians of the Communities of the…

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  The memory of St. Kosmas the Aetolian was again commemorated this year at the historic monastery dedicated to the saint, near the village of Kolikontasi in central Albania. Scores of Orthodox pilgrims from around Albania again traveled to the St. Kosmas Monastery to honor to the saint, who was martyred at the hands of…

  In Jerusalem, a litany of the holy icon of the Dormition of the Theotokos, the Ever-Virgin Mary, was held at dawn on Tuesday at the Tomb of the Panaghia in Gethsemane.

  Turkish provocations in the wider region continued for yet another day this week, with the latest outrageous claim uttered by the head of the Turkish Cypriot religious endowment foundation Evkaf, which operates in the Turkish-occupied part of the island republic of Cyprus. The man question, named Ibrahim Bender, claimed that all of the ghost…

  Members of the permanent Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece convened on Tuesday and will again meet tomorrow, Wednesday, in what will be the last session of the 163rd synodical period for the specific ecclesiastical body. The new ecclesiastical year begins on Sept. 1. The session was chaired by the Archbishop…

    The Holy Archdiocese of Australia announces the establishment of a National Committee for the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution (1821-2021). The National Committee consists of:   His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, President of the National Committee.   His Grace Bishop Ezekiel of Dervis, Archiepiscopal Vicar of Melbourne.   His Grace Bishop…