September 1, 2019 New Ecclesiastical Year   The Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy Esteemed Members of the Metropolitan Council, Esteemed Members of the Parish Councils, Philoptochos Sisterhood, Faculty and Students of the Catechetical and Greek Afternoon Schools, Directors and Participants of all Youth Organizations, and all devout Orthodox Christians of the Communities of the Greek…

On Monday, September 2, 2019, the Archbishop of America His Eminence Elpidophoros conveyed his condolences to the families of victims of Hurricane Dorian, which ravaged the Bahamas. He also expressed his sadness over the destruction left in the hurricane’s wake. A tweet posted on the Archbishop’s official Twitter account read:   Today many are in…

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A ceremony presenting and honoring this year’s recipients of the Church of Greece academic scholarships was held on Tuesday at the Holy Synod’s Synodical Grand Chamber, in central Athens. A total of 48 Greek students were awarded scholarships for post-graduate studies abroad, while 37 students from around the world were awarded scholarships for undergraduate and…

The 163rd synodical period for the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece began on Sunday, which marked the new ecclesiastical year. The Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod, with a new composition and chaired by the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, convened on Tuesday. Two of the Church’s most senior hierarchs, the…

On the feast day of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God, His Grace Bishop Mitrophan of Canada visited the faithul people of Windsor on the occasion of the church slava of Windsor’s Gracanica. Bishop Mitrophan served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy with the concelebration of the local priests. Also, general Consul of the…

Meeting at Danilov Monastery on August 30 under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church appointed a new abbot for Moscow’s famous Sretensky Monastery. Following the transfer of the previous abbot, His Eminence Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov), to the Diocese of Pskov in…

Meeting at Danilov Monastery on August 30 under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church established a new feast for the pious faithful of the Lithuanian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church at large. Having heard a request from His Eminence Metropolitan…

His Eminence Metropolitan Pavel of Minsk and Zaslavl celebrated the feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos with the Divine Liturgy, a procession with the burial shroud of the Mother of God, and the consecration of a miraculous spring at the Holy Dormition Monastery in the village of Zhirovichi, Belarus. Met. Pavel was…