7 апреля 2026 года, по окончании Божественной литургии в Благовещенском соборе, в Патриарших покоях в Кремле состоялась встреча Святейшего Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла с губернатором Краснодарского края Вениамином Ивановичем Кондратьевым. Приветствуя Предстоятеля Русской Православной Церкви, губернатор Краснодарского края поздравил Святейшего Владыку с праздником Благовещения Пресвятой Богородицы. «Ваше Святейшество, хочу поздравить Вас с одним…

On the weekend of March 28 and 29, 2026, the 23rd Annual Byzantine Studies Conference was held in Tokyo, Japan, organized by the Japan Association for Byzantine Studies at Waseda University. His Eminence Metropolitan Ambrosios of Korea and Exarch of Japan was invited as the keynote speaker, presenting on the topic: “Byzantine Icons from an…

With great solemnity and festal splendour, The Great Feast of Palm Sunday was celebrated on 5 April at the Church of the Holy Archangels in the Daher district of Cairo, presided over by His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria. Concelebrating with the Patriarch were His Eminence Metropolitan Nikodimos of Memphis, Patriarchal Vicar…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, following a kind invitation from the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Professor of Cardiology Mr Gerasimos Siasos, accepted to participate in the establishment of the Association of Alumni and Friends of NKUA. His All-Holiness signed the relevant founding Act on Holy Tuesday, 7 April, at the…

† B A R T H O L O M E W BY GOD’S MERCY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE – NEW ROME AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH TO THE ENTIRE PLENITUDE OF THE CHURCH: GRACE, PEACE, AND MERCY FROM CHRIST, RISEN IN GLORY * * * Most honourable brother Hierarchs and blessed children in the Lord, Having arrived,…

With sentiments of ecclesiastical solidarity, the Holy Metropolis of Sweden and All Scandinavia announces the generous donation of the former iconostasis, the Bishop’s Throne, and the chanters’ stands from the Saint George Cathedral of Stockholm to the Parish of the Holy Glorious New Martyr George of Ioannina in Roskilde, Denmark, which until now lacked these…

Monday, April 6, 2026 Dearly Beloved Brothers & Sisters in Christ, Tonight our Church gathers for one of the most moving services of Holy Week – the Bridegroom Matins. In this service we sing a hymn that begins, “Behold, the Bridegroom comes at midnight, and blessed is the servant whom He shall find watching; but…

The Holy Metropolis of Sweden and All Scandinavia announces a lecture entitled “The Dynamics of Prayer in the Modern Age,” to be delivered by the Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Esphigmenou on Mount Athos, the Very Reverend Archimandrite Fr. Bartholomew. The event will take place on Saturday, May 2nd, 2026, at the Saint George…

On Palm Sunday, 5 April, His Eminence Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon presided at the service of Matins and officiated at the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Metropolitan Church of Saint Euphemia in Chalcedon. Among those in attendance were Consul Mr Theophilos Georgakis, many faithful from Constantinople and the surrounding area, as well as a…