The Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Holy Synod on Thursday unanimously elected the Bishop of Christoupolis, His Grace Makarios, as the new Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Australia. An Archimandrite of the Ecumenical Throne, Makarios Griniezakis, was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1973. He completed his early education in Crete and the Athens Rizarios Ecclesiastical School. His Grace Makarios…

Article by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, published on the ‘Jesus’ Orthodox Internet portal. The 6th of May marked four months since Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople signed the “Tomos” of autocephaly of the “Orthodox church of Ukraine,” according to which Yepifany Dumenko was appointed the head…

The persecution of Christians in parts of the world is at near “genocide” levels, according to a report published by BBC. The review estimated that one in three people suffer from religious persecution. Christians were the most persecuted religious group, it found. The interim report said the main impact of “genocidal acts against Christians is…

This morning, 9 May 2019, Archimandrite Elder Aimilianos, former Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras on the Holy Mountain fell asleep in the Lord at the Holy Convent of the Annunciation of the Mother of God, Ormylia, Halkidiki. Biographical details by Hieromonk Serapion Simonopetritis (†2019). You have made known to me the ways…

  The commemoration of St. George the Great Martyr and Trophy-bearer was celebrated before the ordained by the Church date, on Saturday April 21/ May 4, 2019 at his Holy Church of the Patriarchate in the town of Acre – Ptolemais. On the aforementioned day the Divine Liturgy was led by the Most Reverend Metropolitan…

‘We wish you to celebrate your holy Ramadan feast with enthusiasm and love,’ says Patriarch Bartholomew Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew officiated a service Wednesday at the Saint John [the Theologian] Church in memory of the youngest apostle of Jesus and he wished Muslims success in Ramadan. The grave of the Bible writer Saint John is located…

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The Orthodoxia news agency this week hosts a feature on the Holy Monastery Pantokrator Tao, located in a mountain range north of Athens proper. The latter was founded in the 9th century A.D. as a monastery for men. During its long history, it has experienced both looting and destruction, but also periods of major progress.  During…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Irinej, this week venerated the memory of Great Martyr St. George at the Gomionica Monastery, located some 40 kilometers west of the Banja Luka, the capital of the Serbian Bosnian entity of Republika Srpska. The service was attended by the Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Banja Luka, His Grace Jefrem,…