A closely watched meeting between the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, and the Moscow Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, took place in New York City on Wednesday The meeting came in the wake of an invitation by His Eminence Joseph, the Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of All North America of…

The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Wednesday gave a lecture entitled “Let Everything That Has Breath Praise the Lord” (Psalm 150:6), at the St. (Aghios) Demetrius Cathedral in southeast Athens. The subject was inspired by everyday life on the semi-autonomous Monastic community of Mt. Athos, pastoral…

An elaborately decorated early Byzantine church dedicated to an anonymous martyr was recently uncovered by archaeologists near Jerusalem. Some of the finds from the nearly 1,500-year-old structure were displayed on Wednesday after three years of excavations. The findings will be exhibited at Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum. According to press reports, an inscription on a mosaic…

Embassy of Georgia to the United States hosted the celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of the North American Diocese of the Georgian Orthodox Church, attended by distinguished delegation of the Holy Synod of the Georgian Orthodox Church and Georgian diaspora. The delegation was headed by His Eminence Shio, The Locum Tenens of the Patriarch of…

The Chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, Rev. Protopresbyter Andreas Vithoulkas announces that His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros has appointed Dr. Anastasios Koularmanis, currently the Superintendent of Saint Demetrios Greek American School in Astoria, NY, as the new Director of Greek Education. Dr. Anastasios Koularmanis began his career as an educator for the NYC Department of…

Secretary Pompeo met on Wednesday Oct. 23 with His Beatitude Metropolitan Epiphaniy of Kyiv and All Ukraine, Primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Secretary Pompeo congratulated Metropolitan Epiphaniy on his receipt of the Athenagoras Human Rights Award for his defense of all Ukrainians’ ability to worship in accordance with their faith, free from…

Every year in the month of May, a gala marking the Commencement Ceremonies of the Patriarchal Toronto Orthodox Theological Academy (PTOTA) takes place. This year, due to extenuating circumstances, it took place instead on Friday, October 18th. Over four hundred (400) people attended the gala, which took place at the Cultural Centre of the Holy…

On October 21, 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), visited the Russia’s Permanent Representation to the United Nations in New York to meet with Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vasiliy Nebenzya. They discussed issues of mutual concern in the area of cooperation between the…

On October 21, 2019, in the course of his visit to the USA, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR) and rector of Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies (CMI), visited St. Vladimir’s Seminary in New York, the higher education institution of the Orthodox Church…