The Metropolitan of Aetolia and Akarnania, His Eminence Kosmas, spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency this week over his fervor in spreading the Gospel from one corner of the world to the other, adding that the faithful are “thirsty” for the Word of God. “People are flocking for confession, in humbleness, accepting the messages of…
A Greek-language documentary on the inauguration of the St. Nektarios Cathedral in 1994 on the island of Aegina is posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency. The Church was built over the course of 21 years.
The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, on Saturday presided at the Great Vespers service for the feast day of St. Arsenios the Cappadocian, held in the Earlwood district of Sydney. Personal items of St. Paisius were venerated along with a Holy Relic of St. Arsenios. As the Archbishop explained to the faithful, St….
The Feast Day of St. Menas of Egypt was celebrated with particular ecclesiastical splendor on Monday in the northern Greek city of Kastoria, with the veneration of the city’s patron saint coinciding with the 104th anniversary of its liberation during WWI. An archieratical Divine Liturgy was held on Monday morning at the Byzantine-era Cathredral…
The coming week will witness three enthronements of new Metropolitans of the Church of Greece, beginning on Thursday with the enthronement of the Metropolitan of Limnos and Aghios Efstratios, His Eminence Ierotheos, at the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. On Saturday, in the south-central Greek city of Lamia, the enthronement of the new…
A very recent decision by the Patriarchate of Alexandria to recognize autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and to record the name of the Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine, His Beatitude Epiphanius, in the Church’s diptychs, was cited by the Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II. The Alexandria…
A fourth nationwide conference for religious and pilgrimage tourism was concluded on Saturday afternoon in the northwest Greek city of Arta, an initiative organized by three Metropolises in the mountainous Epirus region. More than 120 delegates representing 70 Metropolises of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece participated, with day trips on the sidelines of the…
His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church dedicated to this saint in New Belgrade on 8 November 2019, the feast day of Holy Great Martyr Demetrius. His Holiness was welcomed by the church principal protopresbyter-staurophor Rajko Nedic with the local clergy, the faithful and guests. At the Divine…
On Sunday, 10 November 2019, His Eminence, Archbishop Nikitas, attended the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, where he represented the nation’s Orthodox Christians. A two-minute silence was observed at 11am. Prince Charles laid a wreath at the Cenotaph, on behalf of Her Majesty, the Queen, who watched the service from a nearby…