The Feast of the Epiphany was celebrated with due splendour and magnificence after 68 years in the Holy Metropolis of Chalcedon. In the morning the Local Shepherd, His Eminence Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, officiated at the Matins Service and presided over the Poly-Hierarchical Divine Liturgy and the Great Blessing of the Waters, and was…

On Saturday, 6 January 2024, in the chapel of the Theological School of Halki, on the occasion of the Great Feast Day of the Epiphany, the festive Matins, Great Blessing of the Waters and the Divine Liturgy took place with the participation of many pilgrims from many different regions of Greece. On the eve of…

While His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All greece was initially scheduled to be present at the port of Piraeus for the ritual sanctification of the waters following the Divine Liturgy of the Epiphany, he was unfortunately not able to attend this year. The Archbishop is one of the hundreds of thousands of Greeks…

On Saturday, 6 January 2024, with due ecclesiastical splendour and magnificence, the Great Feast of the Holy Epiphany was celebrated at the Ecumenical Patriarchate. His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, after the matins service, during which he officiated, conducted the service of the Great Blessing of the Waters, and following this presided over the Divine Liturgy,…

“Let us dive deep into the waters of our faith and follow Christ with devotion”, was the paternal prayer and exhortation of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia to the thousands of Greeks, who at noon on Saturday, 6 January 2024, made their way en mass to the pier in the suburb of Frankston in…

The Christmas Feast of Sunday, December 25, 2023/January 7, 2024, began with the Descent in the evening from the entrance to the Baptistery and the entrance to the Basilica, presided over by the Most Reverend Metropolitan Isychios of Kapitolias. Then the sequence of Matins began, as written in the Minaion, in the Catholicon of the…

On Saturday, December 24, 2023/January 6, 2024, the Christmas Feast was celebrated in the Patriarchate per the current Status Quo and the Typikon of the Church of Jerusalem as follows: At 11.15 am the Patriarchal Escort from the Patriarchate accompanied by the Israeli Police moved towards Jaffa Gate, where the escort members boarded vehicles and…

In eternal remembrance is the righteous… Blessed Hegoumen of the Holy Monastery of Hozeva Archimandrite Antonios (†1993) This year marks thirty years since the sudden and tragic death of the blessed Hegoumen of the historic Holy Lavra of Hozeva, Archimandrite Antonios. Fr. Antonios Iosifidis from the village of Avles Serbion, Kozani, was born in the…

Thursday, January 4, 2024, marks the 60th anniversary of the blessed repose of Saint Nikephoros the Leper, a holy healer and miracle worker of our times. The Venerable Nikephoros was included in the calendar of the Romanian Orthodox Church by the resolution of the Holy Synod of July 21, 2021, when the texts of the…