On the 11th of April 2019, an opening ceremony of the 6th International Patristic Conference on Saint Basil the Great in the Theological Tradition of the East and the West took place at the Assembly Hall of Ss. Cyril and Methodius Theological Institute of Postgraduate Studies. Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk greeted all those present, telling…

A relic of the True and Holy Cross was received with reverence and extraordinary venerations on Friday at the St. Nicholas (Aghios Nikolaos) Metropolitan Cathedral in the central Greece city of Volos. The relic, which is kept at the Monastery of St. Nikanor Zavordas, was conveyed to the Metropolis of Dimitriados and Almyros by the…

The second annual youth seminar was conducted this week by the Metropolis of Kitrous, Katerini and Platamonos, in north-central Greece, in cooperation with the secondary education department for the Pieria prefecture. The one-day seminar focused on the topic of “Managing School-related Stress”, and took place in the municipality of Katerini’s Ekavi (Hecuba) conference center.

The Metropolitan of Corfu, Paxoi and the Diapontian Islands, His Eminence Nektarios, on Friday, during the celebration of the Divine Liturgy for the recital of the Akathist Hymn (Unseated Hymn), reiterated the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s standing opposition to a proposal by the current government to decriminalize the offenses of insult to religion and…

The deeply devotional Akathist Hymn (Unseated Hymn) service was celebrated and recited on Friday in the extreme southern Greece city of Kalamata. The Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Holy Trinity (Aghia Triada) Cathedral, with Metropolitan of Messinia, His Eminence Chrysostomos, officiating, and co-officiated by the Metropolitan parish’s priests. In his address to the congregants,…

On Friday evening, March 30 / April 12, 2019, the Service of the Akathist was held at the Patriarchate of Jerusalem. H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos went for the Service to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, escorted by Geronda Secretary-General Most Reverend Archbishop Aristarchos of Constantina, Elder Kamarasis Archimandrite Nectarios, the…

The year 2020 marks the 50th anniversaries of the granting of Autocephaly and the Glorification of Saint Herman of Alaska. To mark these historic occasions, a number of pilgrimages to Alaska are being planned by the dioceses of the Orthodox Church in America. His Eminence, Archbishop Benjamin of San Francisco and the West will lead…

The City Council in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, received an icon of its own resident saint this week. Mayor Fred Eisenberger, head of Canada’s ninth largest city, accepted the icon of the recently glorified Saint Sebastian Dabovich, who served as priest in the city a century ago. “Saint Sebastian was the priest of the first multi-cultural…

Novice Elenko was tonsured as Fr. Spyridon at the Bulgarian Zographou Monastery on Mt. Athos on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, as OrthoChristian previously reported. And on the Sunday of St. John Climacus and the great feast of the Annunciation, the monastery had the joy of another four men dedicating their lives to God in the…