A feature on today’s bleak anniversary of the fall of Constantinople is found on webpages of the Orthodoxia News Agency. May 29th this year marks the 566th anniversary of the fall of Christendom’s most important metropolis in the east to the Ottoman Turks — after a siege of nearly two months. Several thousand defenders of…

In an interview with Kathimerini, Elpidophoros, the new archbishop of America, says he is determined to tidy up the archdiocese’s finances and make sure there is full transparency in the administration of donors’ contributions. A key goal will be to complete construction of St Nicholas Orthodox Church at Ground Zero, a project that has been…

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Tuesday welcomed the newly appointed Archbishop of America Elpidophoros at the Presidential Mansion in Athens and congratulated him on his election. Pavlopoulos stressed the importance of the new archbishop’s mission as a pillar of support to the world’s biggest community of diaspora Greeks. “We are all certain you will succeed…

Greek archaeologists have expressed concern over the limited access that visitors have to the Hagia Sophia monument in Trabzon, northeast Turkey, which was converted into a mosque in 2013. In a letter to the Greek and Turkish culture ministries, as well as the Greek arm of UNESCO, the association also raised concerns over reports that…

The 225th Anniversary of the Mission to North America—marking the 1794 arrival in Kodiak, AK of Saint Herman of Alaska and his companion missionaries from Russian’s Valaam Monastery—was celebrated at the Mother of God Church, Princeton NJ, on May 11-12, 2019. The gathering was cosponsored by Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS). The weekend opened…

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 Μobile health unit operated by the Metropolis of Kissamos and Selinos’ Annousakeion Clinic, continued it visits to schools in the specific region of western Crete. The mobile health unit was purchased with a grant allocated by the Holy and Great Vatopedi Monastery on Mt. Athos. The Metropolitan of KisSAmos and SeLInos, His Eminence Amfilochios, who…

The city council of Sofia, Bulgaria has approved funding of 200,000 leva for repairs of three Orthodox cathedrals in the Bulgarian capital, and specifically for the Early Christian Church of St. George – whose distinctive red brick rotunda is considered the oldest building in Sofia -as well as the Annunciation and the Dormition of the…

The Romanian Orthodox bishop of Maramureş and Sătmar, His Grace Justin, this week presided at the blessing of a site designated for the first Romanian library in the French capital.