The Let’s Go Greek Festival-Parramatta, which was in its 6th year, was attended by thousands of people. The festivities ran till around 6 p.m. and the official opening was at approximately 1.30 p.m., by the Greek-Orthodox Archbishop Mr. Makarios. The Federal Minister for Immigration, David Coleman, NSW Minister for Multicultural Affairs Mr John Sidoti attended…

Metropolitan Basilios Kodseie is the Metropolitan of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines.     The Cross has become an instrument of salvation, a title of love and a ladder that ascends believers from earth to heaven and is a source of pride for them if they follow the…

From 16th to 23rd August 2019, Bishop Nikolaos of Amathous, leading a group of clergymen and laypeople of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus, made a pilgrimage to the holy sites of the St. Petersburg metropolia and the Valaam Island. On 18th August, Bishop Nikolaos and the clerics accompanying him concelebrated the Divine Liturgy at the…

On September 5, 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), with a blessing of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, took part as head of the Russian Orthodox Church delegation, in the 27th International Orthodox Spirituality Symposium on Called to Live in Christ held in…

The central celebration of the 800 years of the autocephaly of the Serbian Orthodox Church and 70th anniversary of the organized life of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Australia and New Zealand will be held on 7 September 2019 on the property of the Saint Sava College in Varroville, Sidney. Very Venerable Archimandrite Metodije, abbot…

Fire tore through an apartment at 49 Epirus Street in the Athens suburb of Ilioupoli on Wednesday. Despite the damage done, an icon of the holy archangels in the room where the fire started survived, leaving only the faces of the Heavenly ministers visible. Unfortunately, the 86-year-old owner of the icon and her son had…

‘We are blessed when we see young people in the church getting to know each other better, praying together, chanting together, discovering spiritual and cultural values every year with new freshness,’ the Patriarch of Romania said on Thursday being welcomed in Craiova for the opening of the International Meeting of Orthodox Youth. Patriarch Daniel was…

The Berlin Philharmonic, one of the world’s top orchestras, opened the 2019 edition of the George Enescu Festival at Bucharest’s Palace Hall in the presence of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel. The twenty-fourth edition of “George Enescu” International Festival is the most complex so far and is defined by diversity and balance, as regards the structure…

Bishop Iakovos of Miletoupolis has been appointed by Australia’s Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios, as the inaugural Bishop of Brisbane. It is the second time he has made history in Australia; Bishop Iakovos was the first ever Australian-born to be ordained as an Orthodox Bishop. Writer Dean Kalimniou took to Facebook to pay tribute to the…