The Patriarch of Romania on Sunday addressed the congregation at the Holy Archangels – Huedin Church in Bucharest and offered his reflections on the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. ‘The Gospel reading we have heard today is the strongest proof that after physical death human soul continues to exist,’ His Beatitude said November…

The issue of religious class instruction in Greece’s public schools, amid a recent ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), as well as the operation of the first crematorium in Greece, in light of the Church of Greece’s opposition to cremation as a method of interment for an Orthodox believer, dominated Wednesday’s session…

His Eminence will celebrate the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Apostles Church in Hamilton this Sunday 10 November The first official visit of Archbishop Makarios of Australia to Newcastle is awaited with great anticipation by members of the community and clergy at the Holy Apostles Church in Hamilton, where His Eminence will celebrate the Divine…

We shouldn’t think, judge, and act, having faith in our way of seeing things—but on God. A certain couple couldn’t have a baby and went to the tomb of Saint Nektarios with the hope that the saint would give them a baby. They arrived at the Saint’s feast when there were at his tomb a…

A new exhibition, “Open Book: Religious Themes in Contemporary Russian Art,” organized by the Patriarchal Cultural Council and the Russian Ministry of Culture, opened in Munich, Germany on October 31. The Cultural Council is headed by His Eminence Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Pskov and Porkhov. The exhibition is being presented in countries throughout Europe as…

November 8, 2019 Feast of the Synaxis of the Holy Archangels To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the reverend priests and deacons, the monks and nuns, the Presidents and Members of the Parish Councils of the Greek Orthodox Communities, the distinguished Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Day, Afternoon, and Church Schools, the Philoptochos Sisterhoods, the…

SYOSSET, NY – Archbishop Elpidophoros visited Metropolitan Tikhon, on Monday Nov. 4, 2019, at the Chancery of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). The two hierarchs exchanged formal greetings in the St. Sergius Chapel. They restated the importance of developing brotherly relationship between the Archdiocese and the OCA through concrete practical projects and collaboration. A…

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  Members of the ethnic Greek community in the Australian city of Cairns, along with local officials and municipality’s mayor, Bob Manning, this week warmly greeted the Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios. The visit marked the first time that the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of Australia visited the far north Queensland city,…