His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of the Orthodox Church in America has addressed his brother primate His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia with a letter of support concerning the recent troubling events in Montenegro, with the Parliament and President adopting a new law that gives the state the authority to confiscate property from the Serbian Orthodox…

At the end of last year, Valaam Monastery posted a video with Monk Abel performing a part of Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers. The video gathered over 7600 likes on Valaam Monastery’s Instagram account and was viewed more than 140,000 times on YouTube. The “Waltz of the Flowers” (1892) is a piece of orchestral music…

  In a metropolis in Northern Greece, there’d been no rain for some time. It was a terrible drought and, due to the situation, the local metropolitan and clergy began to pray for rain. After long prayers and liturgies to no avail, when the animals were beginning to die, the metropolitan sent an encyclical to…

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At 6.00 p.m. of the last day of the year, December 31, 2019/January 13, 2020, the ceremony of the cutting of the New Year Cake was held at the Reception Hall of the Patriarchate. Present at the ceremony were the Consul General of Greece in Jerusalem Mr. Christos Sophianopoulos, Hagiotaphite Archbishops and other Hagiotaphite Fathers,…

  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…