An interview and feature focusing on the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, was posted on a Romanian news site this week. The article showcases the Ecumenical Patriarchate and its historic role over the centuries, while being particularly laudatory of the Patriarch for his environmental advocacy. In the interview, His All Holiness…

Greece’s second largest city, the northern metropolis of Thessaloniki, is witnessing a three-day series of events and commemorations, beginning on Saturday, the Feast Day of St. Demetrius, the Holy & Great Martyr and Myrrh-streamer, as well as the ancient city’s patron saint. Oct. 26 also marks the 107th anniversary of the city’s liberation from Ottoman…

The Greek Orthodox diocese of Dortmund, part of the Metropolis of Germany, in cooperation with the National Kapodistrian University of Athens’ applied philosophy workshop and with the support of the Society of Greek Scientists of Northern Rhineland/Westphalia, is organizing an international conference on the issue of bioethics. Well-known academics and experts in the field from…

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, has appointed Dr. Anastasios Koularmanis, the current superintendent of St. Demetrios Greek American School in Astoria, New York City, as the new director of Greek education at the Archdiocese. St. Demetrios is the only full-time Greek-language high school under the Archdiocese of America’s jurisdiction.

The chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for Church’s society and mass mediа relations, Vladimir Legoida, this week spoke on the issue of religious extremism and the measures that should be instituted to deal with the phenomenon, in comments made at an international conference convened in the western Russia city of Oryol. In his address,…

On 24th October 2019, at the Patriarchal working residence in Chisty Side Street in Moscow, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with Ms. Dariga Nursultanqyzy Nazarbayeva, chairperson of the Senate of the Republic of Kazakhstan, head of the Secretariat of the Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions. The delegation accompanying…

“The Japanese Orthodox Church is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the canonization of Equal-to-the-Apostles Nicholas next year. I intend to visit Japan in September 2020 at the invitation of Metropolitan Daniel of Tokyo to mark this date in the history of Japanese Orthodoxy and the spiritual relations between our countries with joint prayer,” the patriarch…

The swearing-in ceremony of the new Archdiocesan Philoptochos Council was held on Saturday, October 19th, 2019 at St. John the Theologian Greek Orthodox Church, located at the Archdiocese Headquarters. The ceremony was presided by His Eminence Archbishop Sotirios of Canada, assisted by the Archim. Ignatios Delis and the Archim. Alexandros Salmas, Dean of our Theological…

Tens of deacons from Bucharest will guide pilgrims arriving from other cities for the celebrations of Saint Demetrios the New. The deacons will welcome believers at the Bucharest North railway station and will provide information regarding the means of transport, accommodation and food facilities. They will also accompany the pilgrims on the Patriarchate’s Hill. The…