A Divine Liturgy was celebrated on Friday morning at the Cathedral of the Apostle Paul, in the southern city of Corinth, on the occasion of the veneration of the Cincture of the Theotokos, known as the Haghia Zoni, or Holy Sash in Greek. The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great…

After a long school year, and end of the year finals and exams there is no better way to celebrate and begin the summer adventure than with your best friends and a well-organized church camp. Our congregation here at St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in St. Petersburg Florida knowing how much both our children and…

The Iconography Project at St. Nicholas is blossoming with the first fruitful flowers. After 5 years of preparations, the first installation of icons is adorning the altar at St. Nicholas. Church preparations began after the generous endowment from the Katic Family in honor of Anna Bakic Katic allowed to plan for the adornment of the…

A day before the commemoration of the Day of Chinese Neomartyrs, Orthodox priest Chzhan Dimitry Linsen led a prayer service at the St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral in the Russian Far East city of Blago-vesh-chensk, with numerous Orthodox Chinese worshippers who live in the Amur region in attendance. Among others, Father Dimitry’s sermon referred to the…

Half-way around the world, an exhibition of Byzantine icons and hagiography was held this week in Seoul, Korea. The icons are the work of art students that participated in hagiography lessons in the Korean capital. The exhibition was attended by the Metropolitan of Korea, His Eminence Ambrosios, who thanked the students for their work. View…

Archimandrite Nikodimos Farmakis has been appointed by the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece as the new director of the Church’s central ecclesiastical financial department. The position was previously held by the newly elected Metropolitan of Glyfada, His Eminence Antonios.

Conservation and restoration works are continuing on frescoes at the Orthodox chapel of St. George, in the village of southeast Albanian village of Vithkouqi, near the city of Korce. The specific church was designated as a cultural monument in 2015.

The Russian Orthodox Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, on Wednesday was received by the Russian ambassador to Greece, Alexander Maslov. Hilarion is on a tour of Greece, aimed in part, to brief Greek Church hierarchs over the Moscow Patriarchate’s standing opposition to the granting of Autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church by the…

The new Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidoforos, on Wednesday received US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback, at his office in New York City, his first official meeting since his enthronement on Saturday. The US diplomat briefed the new Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of America over Washington’s positions and actions in…