The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, will preside in coming period over several major issues facing the Ecumenical Patriarchate, such as the Ukrainian Church autocephaly, contacts with other Patriarchates and autocephalous Churches. The Ecumenical Patriarch also referred to the passing of the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Australia, Stylianos, saying discussions…

  On the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mt. Athos, a thanksgiving service on the occasion of Greek Independence Day was celebrated at the main Protato Cathedral, in the community’s capital, Karyes, as well as at the Megistis Lavras Monastery and the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi

  In Jerusalem, His All Godly Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem, officiated at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, along with the Metropolitans of the Holy Lands and monks of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulcher.

  The Annunciation Feast Day was celebrated in grand splendor by the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa, with the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, officiating at the Divine Liturgy at the Annunciation, or Evangelismos, Orthodox Cathedral in the ancient Egyptian city. Greece’s general consul in the…

  Monday, March 25, was also Greek Independence Day, with Greece and Hellenism worldwide celebrating the 198th anniversary of the start of the revolution against dour Ottoman rule. The Orthodoxia news agency’s web pages this week feature extensive reports, interviews, historical texts and videos on both the major religious and national commemorations in Greece, which…

  Today marks the Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel for the Orthodox Church, a day after the Major Feast Day of the Annunciation, which celebrates the announcement by the Archangel to the Blessed Virgin Mary that she would conceive Jesus, the Son of God.

On the occasion of the Greek National Day, the Day of liberation from Turkish slavery and in memory of the Greek liberation uprising of 1821, doxology service was officiated in the chapel of Saint Simeon the Myrrh-gusher at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade. The rite of doxology was served by Very Revd. Panagiotis Karatasios, clerk…

A video tour of the Monastery of Panaghia (Mary, the mother of Jesus) Proussiotissa in the mountainous central Greece prefecture of Evritania is available on the Orthodoxia news agency. The monastery served as a refuge for numerous Greek fighters during the War of Independence (1821-29).

An interview by the Metropolitan of Serres, His Eminence Theologos, to Maria Giachnaki, is posted today on the Orthodoxia news agency’s web pages. Among others, His Eminence expands on the contributions of Hellenism and Orthodoxy to humanity over the past two millennia, as well as discussing the recently implemented Prespa agreement.