The Archdiocesan District Council met for their first meeting of the New Ecclesiastical Year at the Archdiocese Headquarters in New York. His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros blessed the members of the District Council with their Affirmation of Office. The meeting began by wishing His Eminence a blessed and happy feast day celebrated on November 2nd, wishing…

With joyful and beautiful liturgical celebrations, the Community of St Demetrios, Edmonton in North London, kept the Feast of the Great-Martyr Demetrios, its Patron Saint and protector, on the evening of Friday 25th and the morning of Saturday 26th October 2024. Several hundred people came to pray with His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, at the invitation of the President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, travelled to Ankara on Tuesday, 29 October 2024, to attend the reception for the country’s National Day at the Beştepe Presidential Palace, together with other religious leaders. During this brief visit to the capital, the Ecumenical…

The educational event entitled “From Otherness to Inclusion” was held on Monday, 28 October 2024, in the Great Synod Hall of the Theological School of Halki. The event was held with the esteemed blessing and under the auspices of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and was co-organised by the Patriarchal Institute of Patristic Studies in…

On Sunday, 27 October 2024, a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Community Church of Saint Alexander in Lusaka, officiated by His Eminence Metropolitan Ioannis of Zambia. The Metropolitan also conducted a Doxology for the Anniversary of ‘Oxi Day’, which was followed by a school celebration. In attendance were the Consul General of Greece…

On Sunday, 27 October 2024, at the Holy Monastery of Saint Irene in Rethymno, His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa was received in response to the invitation of His Eminence Metropolitan Prodromos of Rethymno and Avlopotamos to preside over the celebrations in memory of the Four New Martyrs of…

On the occasion of the National Day of Greece, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarchate Bartholomew sent the Grand Protosyncellus Archimandrite Gregorios to the Consulate General of Greece in Constantinople, who then presided over the Doxology and Memorial service, whilst also conveying to the Consul General, His Excellency Ambassador Konstantinos Koutras, the congratulations and best wishes of…

The Church of Our Lady ‘Axion Esti’, in Northcote, Melbourne, was the focus of events for the anniversary of 28 October 1940 in the Holy Diocese of Chora, in Victoria. In the presence of many members of the Greek community, who came to honour the courage and determination shown by the Greeks during the heroic…

With the blessings of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, His Grace Bishop Bartholomew of Brisbane visited the church of Saint Paraskevi in Taigum and celebrated the Divine Liturgy, assisted by Parish Priest Father Athanasios Athanasiadis. Following the Divine Liturgy, Father Athanasios read the encyclical by the Holy Eparchial Synod thanking the civil authorities, the…