Members of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s Holy Synod on Monday officially accepted the resignation, announced last week, of Metropolitan of Kalavryta and Aigialeia, His Eminence Amvrosios. A day earlier on Sunday, the Metropolitan presided at the Or-thros, or daybreak service, as well as at the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of the…

  The Church today venerates the memory of Sts. Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia, a married Christian couple that were cruelly tortured and martyred for their faith during the reign of the Roman Emperor Maximian, in the third century.

The new Romanian passport that started being issued from January 2019 has a unique design that features important touristic attractions including three Orthodox monasteries: Curtea de Arges, Barsana and Tismana. Romania’s simple electronic and temporary passports are among the most difficult to falsify travel documents, stated the police chief Mirel Toanca, the head of the…

  Fanouropita is a Greek fasting-appropriate cake brought as an offering to Saint Phanourios for helping people find lost things and not only. Saint Phanourios is also interceded for finding one’s way in life, for finding a spouse, for receiving inner peace or other things. Numerous stories abound about how the saint became associated with…

On Sunday August 18 the children of St. Nicholas Church school in Philadelphia gathered to prepare the church for the feast of Our Lord’s Transfiguration. They prepared the grapes that would be blessed on the Feast day shaping them beautifully in the shape of our Precious, Lifesaving Cross. They also decorated the Icon of Transfiguration…

he Metropolitan of Limnos and Aghios Efstratios, Ierotheos, passed away on Monday after a short illness and hospitalization at a Mytilene hospital. His Eminence was a graduate of the Athens University’s Faculty of Theology, with post-graduate studies at Oxford. Ierotheos (Garifallos) was ordained in 1954 and served as a first secretary, minister and secondary school…

  On this Sunday 25th August 2019 We attended to Divine Liturgy which was conducted in the Orthodox Diocese of Goma / DRC,Archmandrite Chariton the Bishop Elect celebrated with Fr Dimitry and Fr Clement from the parish of Uvira / South Kivu,Two Orthodox Christians from Rwanda have joined the Christians of the Democratic Republic of…

Church of Saints Cosmas and Damianos (Agioi Anargyroi), Gospel Oak, NW London Sunday, 25 August 2019   thyateira.org.uk

The Holy Monastery of Xenofontos (Greek Ξενοφώντος) is one of the twenty monasteries located on the peninsula of Mount Athos in northeastern Greece. The monastery is on the southwestern side of the peninsula near the Monastery of St. Panteleimon. Xenofontos ranks sixteenth in the hierarchical order on Mount Athos. asceticexperience.com