On the evening of Sunday, 1/14 December 2025, a musical event was held at the Church of Saint Nicholas in Beit Jala by the choir of the Arabic-speaking Greek Orthodox Community of Beit Jala, in collaboration with the choir of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre under the direction of the chief cantor Deacon Efstathios….

On Saturday, 13 December 2025, the Greek Orthodox Parish of Milan held, for the second consecutive year, its Christmas Celebration, an initiative that was entirely organised by the Parish itself and warmly embraced once again this year by a large number of attendees. The event was opened with a greeting by the Parish Priest, Archimandrite…

Yesterday, His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa visited Heraklion, and specifically Nea Alikarnassos, where he presided over a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy in honor of Saint Eleftherios at the Holy Church located near the Nea Alikarnassos Prison. The Divine Liturgy was celebrated in an atmosphere of profound reverence, with the…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, in a letter addressed to His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, expresses the sympathy and solidarity of the Mother Church, as well as his own personally, in response to the deadly terrorist attack of 14 December 2025 in Sydney. His All-Holiness emphasises, among other things, that the Ecumenical Patriarchate “unceasingly…

Sauturday 3 January 2026 – 19:30 Greek time Elder Ephraim engages in a discussion with Bishop of Limassol Athanasios on the topic: ” The living experience of Divine Grace ” The talk will be in Greek with simultaneous translation into English, Romanian, Arabic, Georgian, Italian, French, Russian There will be time for questions and answers…

On Sunday, 7th December 2025, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain presided during Matins and celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of St Ambrose and St Stylianos in Milton Keynes. Concelebrating with His Eminence were the Revd Oikonomos Gregory Wellington, Priest-in-Charge, and the Revd Presbyter Michail Norok from Thessaloniki. The Revd…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided over the Divine Liturgy at the Vatopaidi Metochion of Saint Andrew in Galata on Saturday, 13 December, the day on which, according to the Julian calendar, the memory of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called is celebrated, and on which the Russian-speaking community of Constantinople holds its feast. At…

On the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers, 14 December 2025, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided over the Divine Liturgy at the Most Sacred Patriarchal Church of Saint George at the Phanar and performed the episcopal ordination of the Bishop-Elect of Ankara, Gregorios. Following the Divine Liturgy, in the Throne Hall, the newly-ordained Metropolitan addressed…

His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia condemns the terrorist attack at Bondi in Sydney which, according to the preliminary findings of the authorities, resulted in the death of twelve people and the injury of at least twenty-nine others. His Eminence stresses that “every act that violates the sanctity of human life is reprehensible, even more…