Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew, on Tuesday addressed a message ahead of next week’s commencement of the Great Lent. His All Holiness referred to a freedom that does not demand, but is shared; and one of sacrifice.

A national union of theologians has addressed an open letter to the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos II, as well as to the education ministry, requesting clarifications over what the two sides have ostensibly agreed to, with regards the lesson of religion in primary and secondary schools. In a statement to…

 Education Minister Kostas Gavroglu on Tuesday referred to what he called a “common consensus” to “rationalize” relations between Church and state. He also mentioned what he called the safeguarding of boundaries between the two and a “tidying up” of finances. Asked about his recent inflammatory statement referring to “blackmail” on the part of clergymen, the Greek…

The resignation of the Metropolitan of Peristeri, his Eminence Chrysostomos, was announced to members of the Holy Synod. The specific Metropolis is located in west Athens.

A session of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s standing Holy Synod was concluded on Tuesday, although a highly anticipated framework for implementing changes in Church-state relations, something promoted by the current government, will be submitted to hierarchs on Wednesday. According to information learned by the Orthodoxia news agency, members of a committee of dialogue,…

  On 3 March 2019, at the residence of the Church of ‘Joy of All Who Sorrow’ Icon of the Mother of God in Bolshaya Ordynka Street, Moscow, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met with Mr. Franklin Graham, President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, who…

The Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea this week charged that his recent arrest by Russian authorities aimed to besmirch his reputation. The Ukrainian hierarch was detained at a police precinct before being released without charges being filed.

The Church of Greece’s standing Holy Synod on Tuesday is expected to consider a multi-page “implementation plan”, recently submitted by the education ministry regarding its proposals for revisions in the Constitution, and specifically changes affecting Church-state relations. According to sources that spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency, members of a committee of dialogue tasked with…

Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria expressed, from Addis Ababa where he is at the moment, his personal and all Orthodox Church of Africa’s deep sorrow for the tragic accident at the Cairo Railway Station, which eventually caused 22 deaths and injured at least 40 people. In his statements, he sent his sincere condolences to Egyptian…