The Metropolitan of Peristeri, His Eminence Klimis, on Sunday, after the holding of the Divine Liturgy, visited several cathedrals and churches in the western Athens Metropolis’ jurisdiction, in order to survey their condition, 48 hours after an earthquake struck the greater Athens area. The 5.1on the Richter scale tremor was recorded very close to…

  The new Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, received Cyprus’ ambassador to the country, Fotis Fotiou, at his office in the Archdiocese’s seat in Sydney, with discussions revolving around time issues and, as expected, on the course of the Cyprus problem. Additionally, Amb. Fotiou presented His Eminence with a congratulatory letter from Cyprus President…

  A looming resumption in a dialogue regarding Church-state relations, held by members of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s Holy Synod with the new leadership of the education and religious affairs ministry continues to attract attention by Church hierarchs, with the Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Aghios Vlasios, His Eminence Ierotheos, this week publishing an…

On the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the invasion of the Turkish military troops in Cyprus, on Saturday, July 21, 2019, Archbishop Makarios of Australia presided over the Divine Liturgy at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation of Our Lady Theotokos in Sydney, which was followed by a wreath laying ceremony at Martin…

US ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt this week acknowledged the importance that Orthodoxy holds for Greek culture and the country’s people, in exclusive statements to the Orthodoxia news agency, while also attesting to Mount Athos’ significance for Orthodoxy and Washington’s standing support for the reopening of the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Halki seminary. Citing his numerous meetings…

The Archdiocese Department of Stewardship, Outreach & Evangelism announces its next National Conference on Missions & Evangelism to be held Feb. 3-5, 2020 in Columbus, Ohio at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral. This event is made possible by a grant from Leadership 100. The theme of the conference is Leading Change Toward a Healthier Parish and features…

The story of Father Dimitrios, the monk with the voice of an angel, who turned out to be a spy for the British Intelligence Service in pre-World War II Greece, is a fascinating yet relatively unknown chapter in modern Greek history. And that’s a shame, because the mission and wartime actions of the British priest…

At the initiative of the Committee for Youth (Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America)​, a new inter-Orthodox youth workers website has officially launched at www.orthodoxyouth.net. This new site was developed with the cooperation of the Orthodox jurisdictional youth directors and camp directors across the United States.​ The youth directors wanted a central place for the…

On Sunday July 8/21, 2019 the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of the Holy Glorious Great Martyr Prokopios at the chapel with his grave, located next to the grave of Saint Modestos Patriarch of Jerusalem on Abu-Tor hill opposite the Holy Zion hill in South Jerusalem. Regarding the Holy Martyr Prokopios the Church holds the tradition…