His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew attended, in prayerful participation, on Thomas Sunday (Antipascha), 19 April 2026, at the Patriarchal Church of Saint George, during the Divine Liturgy presided over by His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph of Proikonnisos. On the previous day, His All-Holiness presided at the Great Vespers, at the conclusion of which he welcomed pilgrims…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew received in audience, on the Sunday of Thomas, the Hieromonks Georgios Vatopaidinos, Ieronymos Simonopetritis, and Nikodimos Agiopavlitis, members of the Supervisory Board of the Athonias Ecclesiastical Academy, together with Mr Georgios Metallidis and Mr Anastasios Sideris, Director and Professor of the School respectively, as well as a group of graduating…

On Sunday, the 6th/19th of April 2026, the Patriarchate celebrated the Sunday of Thomas. On this feast, the Church commemorates the appearance of the risen Lord Jesus Christ unto His disciples, both on the first day after the Resurrection and again on the eighth day, when Thomas was with them and, “having seen, he believed”…

On Sunday, the 6th/19th of April 2026, the Patriarchate celebrated the Sunday of Thomas. According to its own tradition, the Community of Cana of Galilee observes on this day as the event of the confession of the Apostle Thomas, who was from Cana (John 20:19–31), together with the first sign wrought there by Christ, namely…

With due ecclesiastical splendour and national pride, the Holy Metropolis of Phocis participated on the Sunday of Thomas , 19 April, in the commemorative events marking the 205th anniversary of the liberation of the Castle of Salona, the first major victory of the Greek War of Independence in Eastern Central Greece. The celebrations were honoured…

On Bright Saturday, April 18, 2026, His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia, together with His Grace Bishop Bartholomew of Elaia, welcomed in Stockholm the visiting Member of Parliament for the Cyclades and Chairman of the Hellenic Parliament’s Special Committee on Diaspora Affairs, the Honorable Mr. Filippos Fortomas, who was accompanied by the…

H.E. Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden’s Homily at the 12th Catechumens’ Seminar St. George Cathedral of Stockholm Thursday, April 16, 2026 Dear Catechumens and newly illumined in Christ, We stand together at the threshold of a mystery that is at once sorrowful and triumphant, hidden in ages past, yet revealed in fullness in these last days….

The Holy Metropolis of Sweden and All Scandinavia is pleased to announce, in the radiant joy of the Resurrection, the addition of two new volunteer clergy members to its ecclesiastical body. Their inclusion aims to further support and strengthen the Metropolis’ ongoing missionary and pastoral ministry across Scandinavia. This voluntary offering stands as a luminous…

On the 3rd/16th of April 2026, Thursday of Bright Week, the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, under His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, visited the Brotherhood of the Armenians at the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem on the occasion of their Feast of Pascha. During this visit, addresses were exchanged between His…