With traditional modesty and solemn liturgical splendour, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated on Saturday, 25 April, at the festal, translation-observed commemoration of Saint George, in the Church of Saint George in Neochorion on the Bosphorus, which is one of the dependencies (metochia) of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem in Constantinople. The service was celebrated by His…

The Holy Metropolis of Sweden and All Scandinavia is pleased to announce to the flock of the Mother Church of Constantinople in Scandinavia that, with the canonical blessing and encouragement of her Shepherd, His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia, on Saturday, April 25th, 2026, His Grace Bishop Bartholomew of Elaia traveled to…

On Sunday, the 13th/26th of April 2026, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of Joseph of Arimathaea and the Myrrh-bearing women. On this Sunday, the Church commemorates Joseph of Arimathaea, present-day Ramleh, as a “counsellor of honourable estate,” who dared to go in unto Pilate and asked for the Body of Jesus (cf. Mark 15:42). And…

On the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women, the 13th/26th of April 2026, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of Joseph of Arimathaea and the Myrrh-bearing women at the Holy Cathedral of Saint James the Brother of the Lord in Jerusalem (and not at the Chapel of the Myrrh-bearers, due to ongoing works), with a Great Hierarchical…

On the morning of Friday, the 12th/24th of April 2026, following the Divine Liturgy at the Horrendous Golgotha, at which His Eminence Metropolitan Kyriakos of Nazareth presided, the forty-day memorial service was held for the late Holy Sepulchre Brotherhood Archimandrite Timotheos Nikolaou, who had served as Hegumen of the Holy Monastery of the Twelve Apostles…

Each year on the 25th of April, Australia honours the men and women who, answering the call of duty strove with courage and steadfast devotion to the highest ideals, counting neither personal cost nor even their very lives. For us Greeks in particular, ANZAC Day moves us deeply, as it reminds us of the bonds…

Late in the afternoon of Sunday, 26 April, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, accompanied by his entourage, visited the Holy Monastery of Baloukli, where he venerated the ancient Holy Spring (Hagiasma) and, according to tradition, added oil to its ever-burning vigil lamp so that it may never be extinguished. Thereafter, His All-Holiness celebrated a Trisagion…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided on the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women, 26 April 2026, over the Patriarchal and concelebrated Divine Liturgy, which was held in the venerable Patriarchal Church, with the participation of Their Eminences the Metropolitans Elder Emmanuel of Chalcedon, Meliton of Philadelphia, Eirinaios of Myriophyton and Peristasis, Chrysostomos of Myra, Andreas…

Vespers and Order of the Proclamation of Faith and Calling of the Bishop-Elect Archimandrite Paul Ordologlu – Mersin Patriarch John X: “The ordination of Bishop Paul is a renewal of the covenant with Paul the Antiochian Apostle of Tarsus.” “Antioch has spoken. This land of saints, the cradle of culture, faith, and witness, Antioch, has…