The Ecumenical Patriarchate has released the following announcement regarding the divine services during the upcoming Holy and Great Week and Pascha. Read the full text down below: Communiqué As the state of emergency continues in the world, due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and in view of Holy and Great Week and Pascha, today, 8 April,…

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Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Kostas Vlassis this week spoke to the Orthodoxia News Agency about preparations underway in Athens to receive the Holy Flame from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, an annual and much-anticipated rite on the culmination of Easter Holy Week, and specifically on Great and Holy Saturday, which this year,…

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II extended his best wishes to the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos, who earlier in the week underwent a pacemaker procedure. Earlier, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, had also extended his best wishes to the…

The well-attended and festive annual ceremony welcoming the Holy Flame to Russia has been cancelled this month, according to the news agency RIA Novosti. Instead, only a very low-key ceremony will held with a minimum of participants. At the same time, the Foundation of Saint Andrew the First confirmed that the ceremony of the Holy…

The Feast Day of the Annunciation was celebrated on Tuesday at the Cathedral of the Savior in Moscow, with a con-celebratory Divine Liturgy officiated by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill – given that the Russian Church observes the Julian calendar. The Divine Liturgy was conducted without the presence of worshipers….

The Church today venerates the memory of Celestine, a fifth century Pope of Rome who was renowned for his reverence and orthodoxy.

On Tuesday, March 25/ April 7, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the Annunciation of our Most Blessed Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary. On this Feast the Church commemorates the event when Archangel Gabriel was sent by God the Father to announce to the Virgin Mary of Nazareth the good news, that she was…

On 6 April, with a blessing of the acting administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and Canada, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, the clergy of the St. Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral in New York drove in a car procession with the cross through all the New York districts carrying an icon of St. Tikhon with…