The Clergy Families of the Archdiocesan District gathered with His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros for their annual vasilopita dinner that was held at the Greek Orthodox Church of our Saviour in Rye, New York on Sunday evening, January 22, 2023. When speaking to his clergy and their families, His Eminence said, “Being with you tonight is…

My dear Theogenis, You stand before your family, your community and, indeed, before the Holy Angels and all the Saints today – in the presence of God – ready to be received into the office of Sub-Deacon. Although this office is usually experienced only in passing by the faithful – as a brief steppingstone to…

On Saturday, 21 January 2023, at the ruins of the Church of Our Lady of Paramythia “Vlach Saray” in Constantinople, the Holy Divine Liturgy was celebrated, officiated by the Chief Secretary of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate Archimandrite Grigorios. The members of the new Supervisory Committee were present for the Divine…

On Sunday, January 22, 2023, Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa attended the Divine Liturgy at the Church of St. Theodore of Tyrone in Rome. Before the end of the Eucharistic Synaxis, Metropolitan Polycarp of Italy addressed the Patriarch, to whom he offered a historical depiction of the aforementioned Saint. The Primate of…

We must be united in order to succeed”, underlined His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia before hundreds of Greeks from the State of Victoria, who honoured their Shepherd, for his recent Name Day, with their presence at the official Dinner held on Sunday, 22 January 2023, at the Cretan Village of Melbourne. Many representatives of…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew attended the funeral of the late Zacharo Anastasiadou, his sister, which was held on Monday, 23 January 2023, at the Holy Church of Saint George in their village, Agioi Theodori, in their birthplace of Imbros. His Eminence Metropolitan Kyrillos of Imbros and Tenedos presided over the Funeral Service, and at…

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An archieratical Divine Liturgy was held on Sunday at the Catholicon, or main cathedral, of the Holy Monastery of Agathonos, in south-central Greece, on the occasion of the inaugural feast day of St. Vissarionas, the reposed Abbot of the Monastery, after the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate canonized the saint last June.

The Patriarch of Bulgaria, His Holiness Neophyte, on Saturday commemorated his patronal name day, on the occasion of the feast day of Neophytos the Martyr of Nicaea and St. Maximus the Greek, with a Divine Liturgy celebrated at the metropolitan Cathedral of St. Marina in Sofia. The con-celebratory service was officiated by Fr. Petar Slavov,…