Commemoration of Constantinople 2020   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 Greek Orthodox Metropolis…

  As we are in National Reconciliation Week, I feel the need to join my voice with the voices of all those who struggled throughout the decades to achieve reconciliation in this Australian nation. I feel the need to direct my steps towards the path taken by those who crossed Sydney’s Harbour Bridge 20 years…

On Thursday, May 15/28, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the Feast of the glorious Ascension of our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ into heaven. On this Feast the Church commemorates the event that after His many appearances to His Disciples, the Resurrected Lord was ascended gloriously into heaven on the Mount of Olives, forty…

CONSTANTA, Romania — Stretching the church calendar, Orthodox Easter arrived over a month late in a Romanian city on the shores of the Black Sea. Wanting to give worshippers the opportunity to take part in what is considered to be the most important Christian celebration, Romanian Orthodox Archbishop Teodosie held an unprecedented Easter service Tuesday…

The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (Order of AHEPA) will donate $30,000 to an Athens-based research center working to support the public health of the people of Greece in response to the coronavirus pandemic, announced Supreme President George G. Horiates. AHEPA’s donation to the Center for Epidemiology and Outcomes Research (CLEO) will contribute to the…

  NEW YORK – Today, May 28, 2020, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros participated in the United Nations Virtual Consultation “Global Pledge for Action.” The event was chaired by Ms. Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Miguel Angel Moratinos, High Representative for the UN Alliance of Civilizations, Mr. Adama Dieng, UN Special Adviser…

  Saint Augustine, FL – On Friday, May 29, 2020, the Saint Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine will present its inaugural Commemoration of the Fall of Constantinople online. The online version of this event is presented for all the faithful in place of a planned event at the Saint Photios Shrine that had to be…

The Holy Metropolis of Limassol, on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, continues to broadcast a daily radio program hosted by his Eminence Athanasios, the Metropolitan — part of efforts to offer spiritual and psychological support to the faithful.

Official Turkey dramatically heightened its provocations against Christianity, and especially Orthodoxy, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan himself on Thursday evening announcing that excerpts from the koran and a Muslim prayer service will be held the next day at the Hagia Sophia Cathedral, which more nearly a millennia was the greatest of all cathedrals in…