The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Zealand has issued an announcement regarding religious services during the COVID-19 outbreak. Read the full text below:  

On Tuesday, March 4/17, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of our Holy Father Gerasimos of the Jordan at the Holy Monastery bearing his name, which is located on the west bank of the river Jordan before its outcrop in the Dead Sea. On this feast the Church commemorates St. Gerasimos who came to the…

On Wednesday afternoon, March 5/18, 2020, the Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos honoured the Senior Administrator of the Non-Jewish Communities of the Ministry of Interior of Israel, Mr. Yacub Salame with the award of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, in recognition of his good co-operation from this position for seventeen years,…

The 3rd Sunday of Great Lent, March 9/22, 2020 was celebrated by the Patriarchate as Sunday of the Adoration of the Precious and Life-giving Cross of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Guided by the Holy Spirit, the Church has designated for this Sunday the veneration of the Holy Cross with a special service, so…

On Friday, March, 7/20, 2020, the Three Major Communities with the pilgrimage responsibility for the All-holy Shrines, namely the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Custody of the Holy Land of the Franciscans, and the Patriarchate of the Armenians in Jerusalem, released a Statement, specifying to the faithful Christians that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,…

The Mother of God was the purest being created as all the holy fathers confess together. Her basic virtue was and is virginity, the gift of shyness – the full purity of her entire existence, not only from the bodily but also from spiritual (mental) point of view. The Mother of God did not even…

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On the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos, Athonite Monasteries held litanies and vigils in supplication to the Virgin Mary for an end to the pandemic and for Her consolation to a sorely tested humanity. The Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross was commemorated today with millennia-old Athonite tradition at the Holy and…

  The pages of the Orthodoxia news agency today host a video feature on the Holy Monastery of the Theotokos of Tartani, in the mountainous central Greece prefecture of Evritania. The monastery was rebuilt after being destroyed in a 1963 rock slide.