New York, NY – The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Department of Youth and Young Adult Ministries (Y2AM) is overjoyed to announce the triumphant conclusion of the 2024 National Young Adult League (YAL) Conference, held July 3-7, 2024 at The Westin Gaslamp Quarter in beautiful San Diego, California. With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of…

At their Vacation Church Camp earlier this summer, St. Nektarios Greek Orthodox Church in Charlotte, NC created a small shrine to St. John the Baptist, placing the shrine in their parish courtyard to be visible and particularly accessible to the children who love to play and explore there on Sundays after Divine Liturgy. Already, they’re…

On Wednesday, July 25th / August 7th, 2024, the Feast of the Dormition of Saint Anna, mother of the Theotokos, was celebrated by the Patriarchate. During this feast, the Church honours Saint Anna, “who was taken up to heavenly places, the dwelling place of the blessed”, as we sing in her Apolytikion. On this occasion,…

On Tuesday, 6 August 2024, on the occasion of the great feast of the Lord, the Holy Transfiguration of the Saviour, the Church of the Transfiguration, which is located on the hill of Kandilli on the Eastern bank of the Bosphorus, celebrated the feast day. The Feast Day Divine Liturgy was officiated by His Eminence…

On Tuesday 23 June 2020 the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate convened at the Orthodox Centre of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Chambesy, Geneva where they officially numbered among the Saints of the Orthodox Church the ever-memorable Metropolitan Kallinikos of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia (1919-1984). That evening the bells of the parishes throughout…

On Tuesday, 6 August 2024, the Holy Patriarchal and Stavropegic Vlatadon Monastery in Thessaloniki, Greece, celebrated the great Feast Day of the Transfiguration of the Saviour. The Feast Day Divine Liturgy was presided over by His Grace Bishop Agathonikos of Arusha and Central Tanzania, who was also joined in concelebration by Their Graces, Bishop Athenagoras…

On Wednesday, 7 August 2024, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew communicated via telephone with His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and expressed to him the concern and deep interest of the Great and Holy Church of Christ for the alarming situation in Lebanon and more broadly in the area of ​​his jurisdiction, and assured…

The great Feast Day of the Transfiguration of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was celebrated with due splendour in the Holy Diocese of Chora. The centre of the feast day was located at the celebrating Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord in Thomastown, where on Tuesday morning, 6 August 2024, His Eminence Archbishop…

On Tuesday, Patriarch Daniel participated in the historic patronal feast of Cernica Monastery. There, he spoke to the faithful about Christ’s glory, the reasons it was revealed on Mount Tabor, and the event’s significance. At the end of the service, the Patriarch of Romania was congratulated on the 37th anniversary of his monastic tonsure. The…