The Metropolitan of Piraeus, His Eminence Seraphim, this week echoed other hierarchs in Greece and called on Orthodox clerics not to officiate at funeral or memorial services in cases where the deceased has selected cremation instead of burial. Seraphim, in fact, issued an encyclical to clerics in his diocese, on the occasion of the…

The Church today venerates the memory of the Holy Martyrs Zenobius and His Sister Zenobia. The siblings hailed from the province of Cilicia, in southeast Asia Minor. Zenobius was a physician and healer. Due to his virtue he was consecrated a Bishop of his native city. With his sister he was arrested, tortured and beheaded…

  Events commemorating the Greek 28 October public holiday, Ohi day, were celebrated around Australia. In Melbourne, events took place at the Axion Esti monastery at Northcote on Sunday, 27 October. Wreath-laying and other festivities followed at the church’s courtyard. On Monday, the Hellenic RSL organised a ceremony at the Hellenic Memorial near the Shrine…

Archbishop Makarios is making good on his promise of casting the church’s focus on youth. A rehabilitation centre for drug abuse will open in Melbourne with the support of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Archbishop of Australia Makarios announced during his recent visit to Victoria. The reason behind this decision is that 38 per cent of Melbourne’s…

On Sunday, 27 October 2019, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas con-celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Divine Wisdom in Bayswater with The Right Revd Bishop Maximos of Melitine (Assistant Bishop of the Metropolis of France) followed by Te Deum (Doxology) for 28th October 1940. Bishop Maximos presided at the Matins. thyateira.org.uk

On October 27, 2019, 19th Sunday after Pentecost, commemoration day of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, the Divine Liturgy in the ancient Greek language was celebrated at the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and Martyr Alexandra the Empress in St. Petersburg on the eve of the Greek national holiday ‘Oxi Day.’…

The Annual Archon Weekend of the Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle was held last weekend, October 18-20, in New York City. The weekend focused on the Order’s efforts to secure religious freedom for the Mother Church of Constantinople and welcomed the 2019 Class of Archons. The Metropolis of Chicago was honored to receive three…

  By its broadcasting the Radio Slovo ljubve (Word of Love) has strengthened the mission of the Serbian Church in the past decade,” His Holiness Patriarch Mr. Irinej pointed out in his message to this Church Radio on the occasion of its 10th anniversary. “In this year when we mark the great jubilee of the…

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, received Mr. Nik Vujicic, a famous humanist and motivational speaker at the Serbian Patriarchate on 29 October 2019. spc.rs