Archbishop Makarios visited the Australian capital this week, where he conversed with officials from the Greek Embassy, the High Commission of Cyprus and people from the local Greek Australian community.   — Source: sbs.com.au

Turkish police have captured the masked burglars that broke into the house of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew ten days ago. The suspects were captured at 9.30pm Wednesday while in the process of robbing another house at Cartal, Istanbul. They tried to escape from officers using a luxury vehicle, and crashed into a police car while making…

His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco has released his Advent Message for 2019. Read the full text below:   Beloved in the Lord, Having begun the Nativity Fast period and as we enter the holiday season, we have entered a rich time in our lives as Orthodox Christians. Like the beauty of the decor that…

His Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey has released his Christmas Fast Encyclical. Read the full text below:   The Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy Esteemed Members of the Metropolitan Council, Esteemed Members of the Parish Councils, Philoptochos Sisterhood, Faculty and Students of the Catechetical and Greek Afternoon Schools, Directors and Participants of all Youth…

The name of the head of Ukraine’s new church, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, (OCU) Metropolitan Yepifaniy Dumenko was for the first time mentioned by a hierarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church during a liturgy service. Bulgaria’s Metropolitan Nikolay of Plovdiv led the morning service at a church in Greece’s Langadas, the Greek website Romalewfronimati…

And God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” So, God created man in…

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  By the Grace of God, today Thursday 28 November 2019, the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, met in the Holy Patriarchal Church of St. George under the presidency of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. There, the Synod elected: 1. Archimandrite Evagrios Koutouzis as Bishop of Meloes. 2. Archimandrite Elpithios Karalis as Bishop…

  A new church dedicated to Saint Andrew the First-Called who is considered the Protector of Romania will be consecrated this Saturday in Johannesburg, South Africa. The consecration ceremony will be officiated Nov. 30 by His Eminence Metropolitan Iosif of Western and Southern Europe. The event represents the crowning of the efforts of the Romanian…