The Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, visited the Metropolis of Gortyna and Megalopoli, in the central Peloponnese of southern Greece, over the weekend. In the historic village of Stemnitsa, His Beatitude presided at the sacrament of marriage of two of his spiritual offspring, and also attended the Divine Liturgy at…

  Hundreds of faithful and clerics paid their last respects to the reposed in the Lord Metropolitan of Fthiotida, Nikolaos, with a requiem held on Sunday afternoon in the central Greece city of Lamia. The body of the Metropolitan will lay in state until Tuesday morning, with a Divine Liturgy to follow. A funeral service…

800 Years of the Autocephaly of the Serbian Orthodox Church: Endowed by God, Treasured by the People The hierarchs, clergy and delegates representing parishes and diocesan bodies from the three Dioceses of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the United States of America met July 13-16, 2019 at New Gracanica Monastery in Third Lake, Illinois and…

Archaeologists have discovered three sixth-century Greek inscriptions — complete with bad grammar and misspellings — in the remains of a burnt church in the Hippos-Sussita Excavation Project, near Israel’s Sea of Galilee. The Hippos/Sussita site is an archaeological dig in Israel overlooking the Sea of Galilee. Its name encompasses both the Greek word for horse,…

Photos from the celebration of St. Irene the Righteous of Chrysovalantou at the Female Monastery of Holy Cross, Mangrove Mountain NSW, presided by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios. greekorthodox.org.au

The process has slowed down during presidential and parliamentary elections in Ukraine. Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) Epifaniy (Epiphanius) says that over 500 parishes of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) changed their denomination in the past six months and joined the newly…

ASTORIA – The festival at St. Irene Chrysovalantou in Astoria began on Thursday, July 25 with a large crowd in attendance for the annual celebration, a highlight event of the summer for Queens’ residents.   The opening day started off with the blessing presided over by His Grace Bishop Ierotheos of Efkarpia, Abbot of the…

Do not be afraid of the fatigue, the Lord sends the trial to mankind, but also gives joy and strength, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II said in his Sunday sermon. Patriarch recalled the history of the creation of chant “I’m tired, come to me, Lord!”. “All of humanity is tired, but the grace of…

The destination of the procession was the Monument to Vladimir the Great on Moscow’s central Borovitskaya Square. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill led the Holy Cross Procession to the Monument to Vladimir the Great on Moscow’s central Borovitskaya Square after a prayer service at the Kremlin’s Assumption Cathedral earlier on Sunday. Prince Vladimir…