BOSTON. Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology is pleased to announce the appointment of the V. Rev. Archimandrite Maximos Constas as the new Interim Dean of Holy Cross School of Theology. Fr. Maximos is an internationally recognized scholar with expertise in the theology of the Church Fathers, and has been serving…

Bend, Oregon, 160 miles southeast of Portland, is home to about 97,000 people, as well as the St. Jacob of Alaska Orthodox Church of the Orthodox Church in America. Now the residents and visitors of Bend will be able to learn more about holy Orthodoxy while enjoying some high quality coffee, with the opening of…

The only strategy that succeeds today is prayer, counsel and attention. Through these three we come into full harmony with the universe. Through prayer we have a right relationship with God, allowing Him to intervene in our lives. Any strategy other than prayer is doomed in the long run to failure because our vision and…

  The Mother Church of Constantinople commemorated on Saturday, December 14, 2019 the memory of the late Metropolitan Meliton (Hatzis) of Chalcedon, the distinguished Hierarch of the Ecumenical Throne in modern times, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his death. His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch described the emblematic, as he called him, ecclesiastical…

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Τhe Bishop of Gulu and Eastern Uganda, His Grace Silvestros, over the weekend called on young people to struggle for the glory and joy of Christ, speaking during the closing of the third annual Orthodox youth camp in the country.

The Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, on Sunday officiated at the Divine Liturgy at the Mother of God Cathedral on Bolshaya Ordynka Street in Moscow.  

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, told congregants during a sermon at Bucharest’s St. Gregory chapel that contemporary man continues to make the same mistakes, because, as he said, “…prayer is totally absent from our lives”. The Romanian Patriarch added that two main concepts emanate from the Scriptures, namely, that salvation comes from…

The Metropolitan of Veria and Naousa, His Eminence Panteleimon, over the weekend was greeted with the season’s first Christmas carols by students at the school of Byzantine hagiography of the Holy Metropolis, as well as by students of School of Byzantine Music, also run by the Metropolis.   View more photos HERE