NEW YORK – The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America is announcing a new ten-episode video series introducing the faithful to the new Policies for the Safety of Children and Youth. These new resources also include step-by-step checklists designed to help parishioners and communities follow the new guidelines. “The new Policies are an important achievement. Implementing…

Meeting at the Valaam Holy Transfiguration Monastery on Tuesday, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church made a number of decisions regarding its dioceses abroad. In particular, the hierarchs officially accepted 8 parishes from throughout the dioceses of the Church’s newly-established Southeast Asian Exarchate and one from its newly-established Western European Exarchate into the…

St. Luke of Crimea, known as the “Blessed Surgeon,” is loved and venerated throughout the Orthodox world, and churches dedicated in his honor have been built in a number of Orthodox countries. On June 22, the Polish Orthodox Church joined them, consecrating its first church to the great 20th-century saint in the village of Łaźnie…

The assistant bishop to the Archdiocese of Timisoara, Paisie of Lugoj, concelebrated at the Divine Liturgy held at the Cathedral of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” in San Francisco marking the 25th anniversary of the canonization of St John (Maximovich) of Shanghai and San Francisco the Miracle-worker. Heading the June 29…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Thursday morning expressed his condolences and solidarity to the families of the six victims, including two children, that died late Wednesday evening in northern Greece’s Halkidiki prefecture amid an extreme storm front that passed through the area. “At this dire moment for the residents…

Photos from the Great Vespers Service at St Euphemia Church, Bankstown, NSW presided by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia.     greekorthodox.org.au

NEW YORK – His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros received today a letter of congratulations from President Donald Trump for his enthronement as Archbishop of America. The text of the President’s letter follows: Your Eminence, I send my warmest congratulations on your enthronement as Archbishop of the Greek Archdiocese of America. Melania and I join your family…

  Jul. 8, 2019 His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America Visited the Greek American Rehabilitation and Care Center in Wheeling, Illinois; the Fanari Camp / Saint Iakovos Retreat Center in Kansasville, Wisconsin; and the Saint John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Monastery in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin   goarch.org  

Members of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod this week took a series of decisions aimed at entrenching the Church’s presence in the Far East and Southeast Asia, and specifically in Korea, Thailand and even the Philippines.