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…

Scores of faithful on Wednesday afternoon flocked to the icon of the Panaghia Paramythia, known as Vatopedi Mother of Consolation or Comfort, at the Monastery of the Panmegiston Taxiarchon, or Archangels, outside the southern Greece coastal town of Nea Epidavros. A precise replica of the miraculous 8th century icon of the Virgin Mary was conveyed…

The Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church celebrated the Divine Liturgy on the square before the Cathedral of the Dormition at the Laura of the Caves in Kiev on 25 June 2019, the commemoration day of his heavenly patron St. Onufry the Great. Representatives of many Local Orthodox Churches took part in the celebration of…

Just as His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos of New Justiniana and All Cyprus has taken the initiative to try to resolve the crisis in Ukraine, so the Cypriot Church is taking the initiative to legally defend the suffering clergy and faithful of the canonical Ukrainian Church. The Church has launched the collection of signatures in Europe…

The enthronement ceremony for Makarios, the new Archbishop of Australia, will take place on Saturday, June 29. The Greek Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of Australia issued a statement on the event saying ”All the faithful of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia are invited to the Enthronement of our new Primate and Father, His Eminence Archbishop…

On Tuesday, June 12/25, 2019, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of our Righteous Father Onuphrius of Egypt at his holy Monastery, at the deep end of valley Enom, opposite of Siloam font. Our Holy Father Onuphrius lived in Egypt in the 4th century in total abstinence of the passions and in ascesis of the virtues…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has appointed the Rev. Protopresbyter Alexander Karloutsos to be the Vicar General of the Holy Archdiocese of America. The office of Vicar General is an extraordinary office, one which is used only at the discretion of the Archbishop. The last Vicar General of the Archdiocese served under the late…