The ECOS 2019 award was bestowed on Friday to Ecumenical Patriarch of the Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, for his exceptional leadership in environmental protection. The Ecumenical Patriarch received the prestigious award in honor of his lifetime of environmental advocacy and global influence on environmental protection. ECOS produces what it calls “earth-friendly” products, using…

Hiero-monk Petros Vryzas has been elected as the new abbot of the Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist, near Essex, in England. Fr. Petros was a student of the Elder Zacharias Zacharou, who himself was a student of the late Archimandrite Elder Sophrony, the monastery’s abbot until he reposed in 1993. The Monastery…

The Church today celebrates the Feast Day of the Transfiguration of Christ, one of the most significant dates on the Orthodox Christian calendar. The Orthodoxia News Agency today has prepared a special video feature in which Archimandrite Elder Hilarion, the Abbot of the Monastery of the Transfiguration, on Mt. Tabor, in Israel’s Lower Galilee, where…

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Κirill, has offered his condolences to US President Donald Trump following a recent series of shooting incidents in which dozens were killed or injured. “In these difficult times for the American people, we are extending our condolences to all who are grieving today. I hope that…

The Monastery of Stavronikita (Greek: Σταυρονικήτα) is one of twenty monasteries on the Mount Athos peninsula and is located on the northeastern side of the peninsula at an elevation of about 50 meters (160 feet) above the sea. It is fifteenth in hierarchical rank among the monasteries. Stavronikita is the most recently built monastery on…

On the second day of August 2019, when the Holy Church celebrates the Feast of the Holy Prophet Elijah, St. Elijah’s festivities were traditionally held at the Ilinka Street in Moscow. The celebration started with the triumphant Divine Liturgy in the church of Prophet Elijah, served by Bishops Theophilact of Dmitrov and John of Slavonia…

His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia had a meet and greet with Federal Members of Parliament and Senators on Monday to discuss their local Greek communities. The meeting took place at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in Melbourne and was hosted by the Parliamentary Friends of Multiculturalism – a bipartisan group led by Federal Member for…

The central state event to commemorate the Remembrance Day of All Victims and Exiles of the Serbs in the Croatian armed operation “Storm” was held on August 4, 2019 in the Krusedol Monastery in Fruska Gora, Syrmium. The parastasis rite for the repose of souls of the victims was served by His Holiness Serbian Patriarch…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan oversaw a ceremonial laying of the foundation stone for the construction of the first new church building in Turkey in nearly a century. In a ceremony held Saturday in Istanbul, Erdogan celebrated the beginning of construction for the new church, which will serve the local Syriac Christian community and will…