His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, on Tuesday received the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa’s Metropolitan of Zambia, His Eminence Ioannis, as well as the Church of Greece’s Metropolitans of Ioannina and Fthiotida, their Eminences Maximos and Simeon, respectively. His Eminence presented the Ecumenical Patriarch with artwork depicting the Theotokos, the All-Holy…

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On Wednesday, November 3/16, 2022, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the glorious great martyr George the Trophy-bearer in Lydda, at his holy church and tomb. On this day, the Church does not celebrate the memory of his martyrdom, which took place in Rome under Diocletian, but the memory of the repatriation, that is, the…

On Tuesday, November 2nd/15th 2022, the Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece, Mr Thrasyvoulos Lalakos, visited the Patriarchate, accompanied by the Ambassador of Greece to Israel, Mr Kyriakos Loukakis, his partner, Mr Konstandaras, with the Consul General of Greece to Jerusalem Mr Evangelos Vlioras, the Consul Mrs Christina Zacharioudaki and the…

Thanks to a generous donation from the doctor and surgeon Mr. Fanis Stathis, the maintenance and restoration of frescoes at one monastery in central Greece is well underway. With the guidance of the Kardista Department of Antiquities, the conservator Alexandros Konstantas and his team have started work on the frescoes at Holy Transfiguration Monastery in…

The nearly two-week presence of the Holy Cincture of the Theotokos, the All-Holy Virgin Mary, this month at the St. Nicholas Cathedral of Piraeus was the second time in a century that the Holy Relic had been reverently welcomed in Greece’s largest port-city. The Holy Cincture had been solemnly conveyed from the Holy and Great…

According to a 2021 census undertaken in the Baltic republic of Estonia, 29 percent of respondents said they are affiliated with a religion, with the most prevalent faith in the country being Orthodoxy. The second most prevalent faith is Protestant Lutheranism. Orthodox Christians make up 16 percent and Lutherans 8 percent of the population in…

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday delivered an address at an international conference entitled “The Next 50: The Future of World Heritage in Challenging Times, Enhancing Resilience and Sustainability”. The conference is being held at the eponymous Delphi site in south-central Greece. The two-day event is organized by the country’s culture ministry in association…

The Church today venerates the memory of Gennadios I, Patriarch of Constantinople. Today is also the feast day of Gregory the Wonderworker & Bishop of Neo-Caesarea.