The Romanian Patriarchate has announced that the Patriarchal Cross Order will be awarded to Wimbledon 2019 Champion Simona Halep. The following is the press release issued by the Romanian Patriarchate:   The Romanian tennis player Simona Halep has long become a symbol of international sporting performance, culminating in winning the Wimbledon 2019 trophy, the oldest and…

The Holy Metropolis of Pisidia announces with great joy that the Ordination of His Grace AMBROSIOS, Bishop-Elect of Evdokias (Auxiliary Bishop of the Metropolitan of Pisidia), will take place at St. Alypios Orthodox Church in Antalya, on Sunday July 21st,   during the Divine Liturgy. His All-Holiness, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew  will preside over the…

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The annual Greek festival at Dormition of the Virgin Mary Cathedral in the Hamptons, the eastern-most part of Long Island, in New York, was held over the weekend, with a mass turnout by parishioners and visitors. Authentic Greek dishes were served, along with dance and musical performances.

The Feast Day of St. Paisios was commemorated over the weekend at the Pantokratoras Monastery in Beclean, northwest Romania. The Metropolitan of Cluj, His Eminence Andrei, presided at the Celebratory Divine Liturgy, assisted by several clerics. 

The new Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, arrived in Washington D.C. this week to attend and speak at the US State Department’s second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, following his invitation by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Sam Brownback, the US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem,…

The Metropolitan of Kissamos and Selinos, His Eminence Amphilochios, this week issued a statement drawing attention to the fact that various promotional posters appear at the local Chania airport showing the domes of characteristic Greek Orthodox Churches with the Cross having been photo-shopped in order to disappear from the image. In a statement, His Eminence…

A new Parliament plenum will be convened on Wednesday, with newly elected deputies being sworn-in, immediately followed by the tabling of the new Mitsotakis government’s policy statements and a subsequent vote of confidence for the new government. As far as Church-state relations are concerned, during the recent campaign period, the new Greek premier, whose New…

The church has survived two fires, one in 1977 and one in 1986 that forced the entire church to be rebuilt. The Russian Orthodox Church of the Nativity culminated their 100th Anniversary Celebration on Sunday. The church, which was built on Erie’s bayfront in 1919, started as a place of refuge and community for Russian…