The Skete of Saint Panteleimon, not to be confused with the monastery of the same name, some kilometres away, is a skete of the Koutloumousiou monastery in Mount Athos Greece. The Skete was founded in 1785 by the monk Charalampos near the town of Karies, and is a dependent of the Koutloumousiou monastery. The distinctive…

PORT WASHINGTON, NY – The Archangel Michael Church of Port Washington celebrated its feast day, Archangel Michael and Gabriel and all the Bodiless Powers and honored its protector, Archangel Michael, on November 8. The celebration began with the Great Vespers on November 7 with His Grace Bishop Apostolos of Medeia presiding, assisted by the presiding…

We should explain the problem of God’s will because even if God has one will, this will is expressed towards us in many ways – which is why many people say that God has ‘many wills’ – ‘wills’ which can be grouped into four main categories: 1. God’s good will. (κατ’ ευδοκία θέλημα του Θεού)….

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The first reaction by the Moscow Patriarchate to Friday’s liturgical commemoration of the Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine, His Beatitude Epiphanius, by the Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, came hours later by Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, the deputy chairman of Russian Church’s synodal department of external Church celations…

The fourth national conference on religious tourism and pilgrimage commenced on Friday in the northwest Greek city of Arta, in the wake of a recent “travel advisory” by the Moscow Patriarchate informing the Russian Orthodox faithful which Holy Metropolises in Greece have the blessing of the Russian Patriarch for such a pilgrimage. The conference also…

  The funeral service for the reposed Elder Metropolitan of Peristeri, Chrysostomos, will be officiated on Saturday by the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos. The Elder Metropolitan passed away on Thursday at the age of 84. Chrysostomos stepped down from the Metropolis’ throne last March, citing health reasons.

  A symposium was held on Thursday in Bucharest at the Romanian Academy on the subject of the October 1989 fall of the Berlin wall and the Christmas revolution that toppled the communist regime two months later in Romania. A message by the Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, was read out at the…

  Collections gathered in Russian Orthodox parishes around the vast country, with the blessing and urging of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, will finance the opening and operation of four new shelters for pregnant women and new mothers. The shelters are expected to open this month. The aim of the…