The Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross was celebrated with due ecclesiastical splendour in Melbourne, with the centre of the celebrations taking place at the Church of the Holy Cross in the suburb of Box Hill, where His Grace Bishop Kyriakos of Sozopolis officiated at the Matins and presided over the Divine Liturgy….

On Sunday, 7 April 2024, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew officiated from the patriarchal throne during the Divine Liturgy of the Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross, at the venerable Patriarchal Church of Saint George at the Phanar, and was joined by the following Hierarchs: Metropolitan Meliton of Philadelphia, Metropolitan Irenaios of Myriophytos…

The Greek Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary in Heliopolis was filled to capacity on Friday, 5 April 2024, as a large congregation of believers gathered to participate in the Service of the Third Stanza of the Salutations to the Most Holy Theotokos. His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa…

On Sunday, 7 April, 3rd Sunday of Lent, the Ukrainian Orthodox Parish-Community of Saint Savvas the New of Kalymnos, in the suburb of Banksia of Sydney, celebrated with due splendour the memory of their Patron Saint, who fell asleep on the 7th of April 1948, and the great feast of the Veneration of the Holy…

The Archdiocesan District Clergy Laity Assembly and Archdiocesan District Philoptochos Assembly took place on Saturday, April 6th, 2024 at the Holy Resurrection Church in Brookville, New York. His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America greeted all of the 300 Clergy Laity Delegates and Ladies’ Philoptochos Society delegates who represented every parish of the District in the…

Your Grace(s), Your Grace Archdiocesan Chancellor, Bishop-Elect of Diokleia Nektarios, Reverend Chancellor of the District, Protopresbyter Elias Villis, Vice Chairman Nicholas Balidis, Reverend Fathers and Presvyteras, Delegates to this Clergy Laity Assembly, Brothers and Sisters in Christ, It seems fitting, that as we pray throughout the Holy Lenten Season to arrive at the Holy Resurrection…

Beloved and Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, We chanted Third Stanza of the Salutations tonight in this wonderful Church of Saint Barbara, an historic community of the Greek Orthodox People of New York. And just as in this beautiful church we are surrounded by the icons, the Saints, the Angels and the Mother of…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America celebrated the 3rd Salutations at St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church in New York City yesterday, April 5, 2024. His Eminence was welcomed by parish priest Rev. Protopresbyter Peter Daratsos and parish council members. The beautiful St. Barbara Church was founded in 1926 by struggling Greek immigrants and has provided…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America visited the headquarters of the New York City Police at 1 Police Plaza today, April 5, 2024. There he met with Police Commissioner Edward Caban and briefed him on the mission of the Archdiocese of America, whose headquarters is also in New York City. The Archbishop remarked that both…