His Eminence Teofan of Moldavia and Bukovina officiated on Friday the Blessing service for the „Veronica” Clinic in Iași, the first socio-medical centre in Romania to offer free medical services to socially vulnerable pregnant women, mothers and their children. The medical institution was established at charity priest Dan Damaschin’s initiative and through the fundraising efforts…

The Romanian Parliament will have an Orthodox chapel that will be consecrated on March 25, on the feast of the Annunciation, the acting president of the Chamber of Deputies, Alfred Simonis, announced on Monday, the National Press Agency Agerpres reports. Orthodox chapel inside the Parliament “It is a space within the Parliament building. At my…

With feelings of joy on Tuesday morning, 12 March 2022, the consecration of the first Holy Chapel in honour of Saint Gerasimos the Hymnographer took place, which is located at the Holy Monastery of Panagia Dovra, in Veria, Greece. At the beginning, the Matins was conducted in the Katholikon of the Holy Monastery and then,…

With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, on Sunday, 10 February 2024, the Greek Orthodox Pastoral Healthcare Network Australia held its first workshop on the theme “Maintaining Self-Care in our Ministry”. The workshop was held in the parish hall of Saint Gerasimos Church, Leichhardt, in the presence of His Grace Bishop Iakovos…

On Meatfare Sunday, the 10th of March 2024, His Grace Bishop Elpidios of Kyanea, Archiepiscopal Vicar of the Archdiocesan District of Perth, officiated at the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the Church of Saint Nektarios in Dianella, Perth. At the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy a special thanksgiving Doxology was recited for the centenary of the…

On Saturday morning, 9 February 2024, the Saturday of the Souls, the Divine Liturgy took place at the Holy Cemetery Church of the Ascension of Our Lord of the Makrohorion Community in Constantinople, where His Eminence Metropolitan Apostolos of Derkoi officiated from the throne. After the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy, a general Trisagion for…

The third Sunday of the Triodion is dedicated to the most fearful event in human history, the coming Judgment of the world. The remembrance of the fearful coming Judgment at the beginning of the Triodion is necessary, because the ultimate goal of our entire spiritual struggle is to find ourselves at the right hand of…

On Monday, February 27/ March 11, 2024, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Horrendous Golgotha by the Elder Secretary-General, Archbishop Aristarchos of Constantina, with the Archimandrites, Stephen, Ieronymos, Makarios, Claudios, Christodoulos and Dionysios, Priest Athanasios, Archdeacon Mark and Hierodeacon Simeon. The chanting was delivered by Hierodeacon Dositheos and Priest Ioannis as the service was…

On Sunday, February 26/March 10, 2024, the commemoration of the Holy Martyr Porphyrios, Bishop of Gaza, was celebrated by the Patriarchate in the Holy Monastery named after him in the currently afflicted city of Gaza. On this feast, the whole Church, especially that of Jerusalem, remembers that Saint Porphyrios, originally from Thessalonica, came to the…