Archbishop Stylianos of Australia died on 25 March, 2019, after a long battle with cancer. News of his death saddened a large part of the Greek community who will always remember the former archbishop as a fiery hierarch who was, unlike many members of the clergy, not obsessed with conceited extravagance or flashes of wealth….

March 24, 2020 Beloved Faithful in Christ, ​​Greetings and blessings to you and all of your loved ones in the Name of our Great God and Savior, Jesus Christ! As I celebrated liturgy Sunday with a small number of my staff here at our headquarters chapel of St. John Chrysostom, I could not help but…

The Belarusian Orthodox Church does not intend to prohibit religious processions and other festivities due to the spread of coronavirus, head of the Information Department of the Belarusian Orthodox Church (the Belarusian Exarchate of the Moscow Patriarchate) Archpriest Sergey Lepin told Interfax. “The church is taking safety measures to prevent the coronavirus epidemic, including by…

The Greek Church leadership requested an exemption from coronavirus curfew measures in a letter to Education & Religion Ministry officials on Thursday, to carry on liturgies on a normal schedule, behind closed doors. Before the curfew, the government had allowed only emergency services such as funerals, with a restricted number of attendees, and church visits…

He didn’t want the flowers to go to waste– so Fr. Eugene Pappas thought of a great way to use them while sharing hope with his neighborhood. This past Sunday at Three Hierarchs Greek Orthodox Church in Brooklyn– and churches throughout the world– would have been the Feast of Stavroproskineos, or the veneration of the…

  In fact, what is normal in a world in which one flies East, another flies West and another flies over the cuckoo’s nest? According to the ways of this world, if a normal man (that is, a sinful man) would go into a psychiatric hospital to get rid of the consequences of his sins,…

The night vigil to the glory of the Mother of God, our Lady Theotokos and the Saint hieromartyr miracle worker Charalambos of Magnesia, for healing and protection against the COVID-19 pandemic will be served this Friday, 27th March (Gregorian Calendar), starting with 21:00 (Athos, Constantinopole, Jerusalem, Alexandria, time). The whole of Mount Athos community will…

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  The Autocephalous Church of Greece’s Metropolitan of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia, His Eminence Gabriel, spoke this week to the Orthodoxia news agency, underlining that without the Holy Eucharist there is no Church. At the same time, His Eminence acknowledged that the state’s ban on the partaking of Holy Communion was extreme, but possibly necessary….