A new stamp was introduced into circulation yesterday, January 21, featuring the St. Nicholas Church of Popăuți Monastery, built by St. Stephen the Great in 1496. The stamp is part of a series dedicated to various Romanian cities, with the latest stamps honoring the northern city of Botosani. The stamp was issued by Romfilatelia, which, “For…

His Grace Bishop Irinej of Backa celebrated his patron saint on 20 January 2020, on Saint John’s Day. Bishop Irinej of Backa officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy with the concelebration of Their Graces Bishops Pahomije of Vranje, David of Krusevac, Arsenije of Nis, Heruvim of Osek-Polje and Baranja and Isihije of Mohacs; Archimandrites Jovan (Radosavljevic)…

The town of Karyes is the administrative center for the monastic republic of Mount Athos. The town is located in the middle of the peninsula at an elevation of a little over 1,000 feet (370 meters). The town is the seat of the governing body of Mount Athos and of the protos (primate) of the…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has released his Encyclical for this year’s Feast of the Three Hierarchs. Read the full text below:   Protocol No. 10/2020 January 30, 2020 Feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs and Ecumenical Teachers and the Day of Greek Letters Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others…

A report by the Gatestone Institute International Policy Council earlier this month warns that attacks against Christians in Europe reached record highs in 2019, as hostility and vandalism against churches, Christian schools and monuments plaguing the continent. Gatestone released its research of anti-Christian violence after having reviewed hundreds of news reports, parliamentary inquiries and police…

The Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (Munich), which is working in the Alexander Metochion in Jerusalem, plans to appeal Israeli authorities’ decision to transfer the metochion’s property rights to the Russian organization of the same name, head of the German Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society Nikolay Vorontsov-Hofmann said. “Lawyers have already begun working. Two days ago, our…

On the margins of the MECC Executive Committee’s regular meeting that was held in Larnaca – Cyprus on 21 – 22 January 2020, H.E Archbishop Nektarios, Metropolitan of Larnaca has invited the participants to dinner on the honor of the four Council’s presidents, His Beatitude Youhanna X – Patriarch of Antioch and All the East…

At the initiative of Prof. Themis Prodromakis, the Archon Protopsaltis of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Mr Panagiotis Neochoritis visited London and had the opportunity to meet cantors of the Archdiocese at Thyateira House as well as to give advice to the choir under the direction of Prof. Prodromakis during its rehearsal for the First Vespers of…

On Thursday morning, January 10/23, 2020, His Excellency the President of the Hellenic Republic (before his retirement) Mr. Prokopis Pavlopoulos visited the Patriarchate. Mr Pavlopoulos came to Israel as a representative of Greece for the commemoration of seventy five years since the Jewish holocaust and was accompanied by his wife, the Consul General of Greece…