This week marks the one-year anniversary of the operation of the Orthodoxia News Agency – a pioneering endeavor in the field of global ecclesiastical journalism – complete with daily news briefings, on-site reports, exclusive items, coverage of international developments, interviews and current affairs, as well as original documentaries. Amid a particularly crucial period for Orthodoxy…

The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople on Wednesday announced the canonization of the Elder Ieronymos Simonopetritis and the Elder Sophronius Sakharov of Essex, following the convening of the Patriarchate’s Holy Synod earlier in the day.       Elder Ieronymos Simonopetritis (1871-1957) Childhood Years (1871-1888) Elder Ieronymos was born in the village of Reïz-Dere in the…

The Metropolitan of Corfu, Paxoi and the Diapontian Isles, His Eminence Nektarios, on Tuesday welcomed the Moscow Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Yekaterinburg, His Eminence Kirill, at the Holy Metropolis’ bishopric. The two Church hierarchs are connected by the bonds for friendly for many years, with His Eminence Kirill again arriving on the Ionian island as a…

The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, visited the St. Basil day and residential age care center in Lakemba, a suburb of inner southwest Sydney. His Eminence Makarios met with the center’s staff and spoke with a number of residents, while also praying in a chapel dedicated to St. Basil the Great, which is located…

The Archdiocese of America this week commenced a campaign to combat Internet fraud, after several instances were reported over the recent period in which emails soliciting donations were sent to parishioners, with the senders claiming to be clerics or representatives of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese. A relevant pamphlet will be handed out to congregants during…

A 6 on the Richter scale earthquake shook much of southern Greece on Wednesday morning, a day after a particularly destructive 6.4 on the Richter scale quake was recorded in coastal central Albania. Many residents in the greater Athens area felt the tremor, which was pinpointed between the large island of Crete and the island…

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, in a letter to the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, extended condolences on behalf of the WCC fellowship upon news of the devastating earthquake that struck on 26 November. “I write to you with great sadness after receiving news of the strong earthquake…

  We say that Saint Andrew together with Saint John the Theologian were the first apostles of Christ, as the Gospel according to John teaches us: Saint John the Baptist saw Jesus coming to him, and said, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is he of whom…

† Anastasios Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania In anticipation of Christmas 2019 Appeal-Supplication for the overcoming of the ecclesiastical polarisation 1. For months, much has been said and written about the Ukrainian ecclesiastical problem. What is most crucial and most necessary, however, is to emphasise Orthodoxy’s imperative of unity. St. John Chrysostom proclaimed,…