Together they surveyed areas damaged by Hurricane Dorian. Archbishop Elpidophoros met with workers reconstructing houses damaged by the hurricane, offering them water. Water has become a precious commodity on some of the islands since the hurricane.   facebook.com/goarch

What thoughts we should confess? This question appears again and again. Here is a simple way to look at it: When you are in a skyscraper at 100th floor and someone is passing on the street and he is swearing against you, you will ignore him. If that person will enter in the skyscraper and…

Statement Issued by the Holy Synod of Antioch Balamand, October 10, 2019 The Holy Synod of Antioch, chaired by His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, held its eleventh ordinary session on October 3-10, 2019 in Balamand and was attended by the Metropolitans and Bishops from the homeland and countries abroad….

On Monday, 14th October 2019, when the Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast of the Protection of the Mother of God, Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and all Moldova celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Nativity of the Lord Cathedral in Chisinau Praying with the metropolitan were Vicar Bishops Ioan of Soroca and Siluan of Orhei. The…

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church celebrates Petkovden on Monday, October 14, a day that marks the beginning of the winter in the country. On this day, the Bulgarian Christian-Orthodox honor Saint Petka-Paraskeva Tarnovska. October 14 in Bulgaria is commonly known as Petkovden. Reverend Petka was born near the Sea of Marmara in the 11th century. After…

The Archbishop of Cyprus, His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, received visiting Greek Finance Minister Christos Staikouras at the Archdiocese on Sunday, in the presence of Greece’s outgoing ambassador to Cyprus, Ilias Fotopoulos. Earlier, the Greek minister attended the Divine Liturgy at the St. John Cathedral in Nicosia.

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, arrived in the Bahamas this week for a visit to the Caribbean archipelago, for a pastoral visit to areas recently ravaged by Hurricane Dorian. In leading a delegation from the Archdiocese, His Eminence celebrated a Divine Liturgy at the parish of the Annunciation of the Mother of God,…

The new Metropolitan of Limnos and Aghios Efstratios was enthroned on Monday during a service at the Athens Metropolitan Cathedral, with Archbishop Ieronymos officiating at the enthronement ceremony.  

Metropolitan of Piraeus, His Eminence Seraphim, clarified his personal position, as he said, regarding the matter of autocephaly for the Ukrainian Church and the stance he maintained during Saturday’s extraordinary session of the Greek Church’s hierarchs. In a letter, Seraphim reiterated that he, at no time, accepted the proposal by Archbishop of Athens and All…