The Autocephalous Church of Greece’s Bishop of Thespies, His Grace Simeon, on Friday was elected by members of the Church’s Holy Synod as the new Metropolitan of Fthiotida, an ecclesiastical bishopric based in the south-central city of Lamia, the capital of Fthiotida prefecture. His Grace received 62 votes by Holy Synod hierarchs, to eight votes…
Under the patronage of His Eminence Metropolitan Basilios, children and adults from St Paul’s parish, Dandenong Victoria, travelled to St Michael’s Monastery in Goulburn, NSW for their third annual parish Family Camp. Led by St Paul’s Youth Committee under the guidance of Father Jean and Kh. Rita Mawal, families gathered together for a 5-day retreat…
He who has lost sensibility is a brainless philosopher, a self-condemned commentator, a self-contradictory windbag, a blind man who teaches others to see. He talks about healing a wound, and does not stop irritating it. He complains of sickness, and does not stop eating what is harmful. He prays against it, and immediately goes and…
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Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Thursday’s received the country’s citizens protection minister, Michalis Chrysohoidis, at the Church of Greece’s synodical building, with talks focusing directly on efforts to deal with the resurgent migrant crisis plaguing the east Mediterranean country. Increased landings by groups of third country nationals being smuggled onto…
A benefit concert will be held this evening at New York City’s famed Carnegie Hall to benefit the St. Nicholas Church and National Shrine. Greek maestro Yiannis Hadjiloizou will conduct the Athens Philharmonic in Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection.” His Eminence, Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, under whose auspices the event is being held, invited…
The visiting Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, earlier this week visited the Patriarchal and Stavropegic Gouverneto Monastery, known as the Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, which is located on the Akrotiri peninsula, in western Crete. His Eminence represented the Ecumenical Patriarchate on the occasion of the veneration of John the Hermit of Crete,…
The role of the Church in the digital age and challenges arising from the applications of artificial intelligence were on the agenda of today’s session by members of the Church of Greece’s Holy Synod. Two hierarchs read out position papers during Thursday’s session, with the Metropolitan of Ioannina, His Eminence Maximos, addressing the Holy Synod…
The US House of Representatives last month recognized Oct. 19th as the 50th anniversary of the priesthood of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I. On Tuesday, Illinois Congressman Darin LaHood (R-18th District) presented an official copy of the US Congressional Record from Sept. 25, 2019, recognizing the spiritual leader of Eastern…