Your Highness, Your Excellencies, Distinguished guests, Honored participants, Ladies and gentlemen, Dear friends, It is an honor to address you today regarding two issues central to our service as Ecumenical Patriarch and two topics essential to this vital conference: migration and climate change. We sincerely thank the G20 Interfaith Forum and the Interfaith Alliance for…

Taking into consideration the difficult situation in Ukraine and in the world, with the blessing of His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, the events connected with the anniversary date of his enthronement and his birthday will be held in a limited manner. The invitation of the foremost hierarchs of churches, their…

With a celebration dedicated to the grandparents of the Greek Orthodox Community, the students of the Greek College of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia “Aetolian College” of the Malvern East School of Melbourne bid farewell to this academic year. More specifically, on Friday, 9 December 2022, the students and teaching staff of the “Aetolian College”…

With due solemnity and according to the order of the Great and Holy Mother Church of Christ, on Thursday, 8 December 2022, the eve of the Feast of the Conception of the Holy Theotokos by Saint Anna, in the Holy Cathedral of Saint George of the Greek Orthodox of Venice, the ordination as Bishop of…

Through an announcement made by the Archdiocesan District of Melbourne, His Grace Bishop Kyriakos of Sozopolis, together with Fr. Stavros Kakavas and the Council of the Parish – Community of Saints Anargiri Oakleigh, wish to update the faithful about the sad event of the fire in the Greek Orthodox church in the early hours of…

His Grace Bishop Evmenios officiated at the Holy Chapel of Saint Nicholas On Saturday, 10 December 2022, on the occasion of the recent feast of Saint Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia, His Grace Bishop Evmenios of Kerasounta, with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, visited the Holy Chapel of St. Nicholas…

Extensive material damage has been caused to the Holy Church of Saints Anargiri, in the Melbourne suburb of Oakleigh, as a result of a fire that occurred in the morning hours on Saturday,10 December 2022. According to the first details, the fire, which was extinguished by the Fire and Rescue Services that rushed to the…

On December 7, 2022, after Divine Liturgy at St. Paul Chapel in the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, Bishop Athenagoras of Nazianzos humbly prayed a memorial service for Elder Ephraim of Philotheou & Arizona of blessed memory, who departed in the Lord three years ago. Elder Ephraim’s contribution to the Greek Orthodox…

The 11th Academic Consultation between Judaism and Orthodox Christianity took place December 4-6, 2022, in Vienna, Austria. The theme was “Jewish-Orthodox Christian Dialogue: Navigating Our Relations to the World and to Each Other.” The Consultation was co-sponsored by the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC). The Orthodox Christian delegation to…