The Greek Welfare Centre of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia is organising a series of Marriage Preparation Seminars in Sydney, with the next to be held over two days, on Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th of November 2024. The seminars are free and offer couples the opportunity to understand and appreciate various important aspects of…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America welcomed the newly appointed Spiritual Court members of the Archdiocesan District on Tuesday, October 29, 2024. The members include the Chancellor of the Archdiocesan District Rev. Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Throne Elias Villis as presiding officer on behalf of His Eminence, V. Rev. Archimandrite Chrysostomos Panos, Rev. Protopresbyter Peter…

On Tuesday, October 29, 2024, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America received, at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, Rev. Presbyter Ioannis Capones to wish him farewell. Fr. Capones will be leaving the Archdiocesan District for the Metropolis of Atlanta where he will serve at the parish of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Asheville,…

On Monday, October 15/28, 2024, a doxology was held in the Catholicon Church of the Holy Sepulchre, for God’s help in liberating our nation from the German and Italian Occupation of the Second World War and as a tribute towards the fighting heroes of our Nation and a prayer for the repose of souls of…

On Saturday, October 13/26, 2024, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the repatriation of the holy relic of our Holy Father, Savva the Sanctified. On this feast, the Church of Jerusalem commemorates that after the lifting of anathemas between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches, the meeting of the Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras with Pope John…

In a heartfelt gesture of shared commitment to peace, His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem, received Consul General Diane Corner of Great Britain as she concluded her three-and-a-half-year tenure in Jerusalem. The farewell visit, held at the Patriarchate’s historic headquarters, offered an opportunity for reflection on the enduring role of the Church in the…

On Monday, 28 October 2024, a Divine Liturgy took place at the Cathedral Church of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple, of the renowned Stavrodromi Community, in Constantinople, and was presided over by His Grace Bishop Benjamin of Tralee, on the occasion of the Feast of the Holy Protection of the Theotokos. Present…

On Sunday, 27 October 2024, His Eminence Metropolitan Arsenios of Austria and Exarch of Hungary and Central Europe, after having completed at pilgrimage visit to Constantinople, along with a group of faithful believers from his Eparchy, liturgised at the Church of Saint Nicholas of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Athens, Greece. Also present and joined in…

Over the two days of Sunday and Monday, 27 and 28 October 2024, celebrations took place the Holy Monastery of Panagia Eleftherotria in Vathi, Aegina. On Sunday evening, His Eminence Metropolitan Ephraim of Hydra, Spetses and Aegina, officiated and spoke at the Great Vespers Service, which took place with the participation of the Fathers and…