On Monday, December 31, 2019/ January 13, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of Saint Melani of Rome at the underground chapel dedicated to her in the Holy Monastery of Megali Panagia, which is adjacent to the Patriarchate on the south-west side. Saint Melani belonged to a rich family, and lived in Rome during…

  The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency on the Feast Day of the Epiphany, earlier this month, hours after officiating at a celebratory Divine Liturgy and the Great Blessing of the Waters service. In a wide-ranging and heartfelt interview, His Divine…

  The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Tuesday received Alternate Citizens’ Protection Minister Giorgios Koumoutsakos at the Archdiocese. The meeting comes after last week’s approval, by the Church of Greece’s Holy Synod, of a proposal by the Church’s support center for repatriated Greeks and migrants, to implement a program that…

  Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis himself this week indirectly responded to criticism by main opposition SYRIZA over the center-right government’s intent to allocate a 2-million-euro grant to the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School Of Theology in the Boston area. Speaking at an American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce event on Monday evening, Mitsotakis cited his recent…

  Thousands of Orthodox faithful, abbots and priests continued peaceful protests around Montenegro against a recently ratified law that the Orthodox Church charges open the way for a confiscation of many of its properties and relics. In Podgorica, the country’s capital, the Bishop of Diokleia, His Grace Methodius, declared that protests will not stop until…

  The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, this week visited a youth summer camp run by the Monastery of Pantanassa and the Greek Orthodox Christian Society of Sydney, two institutions under the auspices of the Archdiocese of Australia. His Eminence was enthusiastically welcomed by young campers at the facility waving Australian and Greek flags…

  More instances of vandalism of churches and chapels around Greece over the recent period have caused grief and revulsion. After vandals desecrated an icon of the Theotokos in a chapel in central Thessaloniki recently, the small church of St. Panteleimonas and a chapel outside the Cathedral of St. Sophia were vandalized recently. On the…

In every beginner, there is a twofold work, committed in the heart in a double but unmixed way: one work is of grace and the other work is of the deception of demons. Yet still, we can divide the twofold work into three, if we also consider the body—thus, there is a triple warmth of…

NEW YORK – His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America celebrated, the evening of Wednesday Jan. 9, 2020, the beginning of the new year with the leadership and members of the leading Greek-American professional organizations. The Archbishop cut the traditional New Year’s Vassilopita and exchanged greetings with all in attendance. The Organizations included the following: Hellenic…