The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All-Holiness Bartholomew I, in a homily, referred to unity as a necessary condition for Orthodoxy to remain a credible testimony of faith in the modern world, following his co-officiating of a Patriarchal and Synodal Divine Liturgy at the Mother Church’s Phanar-district See. The visiting Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and…

The Metropolitan of Symi, Tilos, Halki & Kastellorizo, His Eminence Chrysostomos, spoke exclusively to the Orthodoxia news agency this week over the 75th anniversary of the Dodecanese islands’ union with the Greek motherland, after seven centuries of foreign rule, while also touching on last week’s Tempi rail disaster, which has plunged the country into mourning.

The Church today venerates the memory of Paul the Simple, the Confessor. Today is also the feast day of the Seven Hieromartyrs of Cherson.

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On Cheese-Fare Sunday, February 26, 2023, the Divine Liturgy was followed by a prayer ceremony for the beginning of the new School Year. Metropolitan Ambrosios recited a special prayer, after which he offered gifts to the students who are advancing class. After the Agape Meal, the faithful attended the Service of Vespers of Forgiveness, where…

On 5th March 2023, Sunday of Orthodoxy, at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. Andrew in Kentish Town, His Grace Bishop Iakovos of Claudiopolis presided during Matins and His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain presided during the concelebration of the Divine Liturgy alongside His Eminence Metropolitan Silouan of the British Isles and…

On March 2, 2023, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros met with His Excellency Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco. The leaders discussed the pastoral needs of their respective faithful, and, in light of last month’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, they also spoke to the areas in which both Orthodox…

The Liturgical Arts Academy is a one-week intensive program offering instruction in either Byzantine chant or iconography according to the tradition of the Orthodox Christian Church. Held at the Metropolis of Atlanta’s Diakonia Retreat Center in Salem, South Carolina, the Academy offers 5-6 hours of daily instruction along with matins and vespers services that continue…

Following the Pre-Sanctified Liturgy at Ascension Cathedral in Oakland, California on March 1, 2023, Fr. Athanasios (Tom) Zaferes was elevated to Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Throne by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros. His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco and His Grace Bishop Ioannis of Phocaea concelebrated the Liturgy with the Archbishop. Addressing Fr. Athanasios, Archbishop…