With the blessing of His Eminence George (Abu Zakhm) Metropolitan of Homs and Dependencies, the Archdiocese of Homs celebrated the Day of its Patron Saint in his monastery located in the Al-Warsha neighborhood by several activities: To start with, an evening choir was performed by the chorale of St. Elian of Emesa on Sunday, February…

The Government of Montenegro and the Episcopal Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro issued the following joint press release after their meeting that took place on Friday, Feb. 14, 2020:   Podgorica, Montenegro (14 February 2020) – The Government of Montenegro and the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral and other dioceses of…

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada mourns the falling asleep in the Lord of His Grace Bishop Christoforos of Andida. His Grace left this temporal world today, February 14, 2020. He was 89 years old. His Eminence Archbishop Sotirios, as a member of the Holy and Sacred Synod, was at the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and when…

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The Church of Greece’s Bishop of Andidon, Christoforos, reposed in the Lord this week. A funeral service will be held at the Cathedral of the Entrance of the Theotokos in the south-central city of Livadia on Saturday, while interment will follow at the Holy Monastery of St. Luke, as the reposed hierarch was a member…

Greek Deputy Defense Minister Alkiviadis Stefanis attended a ceremony at the Thessaloniki officers’ club for the repatriation of the remains of Greek army Maj. Georgios Katsanis, who fell heroically on July 21, 1974 during a battle with invading Turkish forces in the vicinity of the mountainous St. Ilarionas fortress — between Kyrenia and Nicosia. Maj….

Sessions of the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Romania were concluded this week, under the chairmanship of the Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel. In a subsequent press release, the Holy Synod announced that it will send a delegation of Romanian Orthodox bishops to Amman, Jordan, in order to participate in a Pan-Orthodox…

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, this week received visiting Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Costas Vlassis in Cairo. The deputy minister, who holds the expatriate Greeks’ portfolio, expressed his praise for His Divine Beatitude and the Patriarchate’s missionary work, referring to a lighthouse of Orthodoxy on the…

Members of Mount Athos’ Holy Administration, the Holy Epistasia, which represents the 20 Orthodox monasteries in the semi-autonomous monastic community, met on Thursday with Greece’s environment and energy minister, Kostis Hatzidakis. Among others, the issue of including the verdant peninsula of Mount Athos in the European Union’s Natura network of environmental protection was discussed. Additionally,…