On Saturday, 30th December 2023, Deacon Prof. Krastu Nikita Banev was ordained to the Holy Priesthood at the Church of the Three Hierarchs in Leeds. His Grace Bishop Raphael presided during Matins and celebrated the Divine Liturgy. Amongst those concelebrating were the V. Revd Archimandrite of the Ecumenical Throne Dr. Antonios Kakalis, the V. Revd…

On Tuesday night, December 20, 2023 / January 2, 2024, on the commemoration of the Bishop of Antioch, Saint Ignatius the God-bearer, Hierodeacon Anastasios from the Lavra of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified was ordained as a Priest by the Elder Sacristan, His Eminence Archbishop Isidoros of Hierapolis, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The…

As it was announced by the Holy Metropolis of Chalcedon, On Saturday, 6 January 2023, the Feast of Epiphany, at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, the Matins and Hierarchical Divine Liturgy will take place (from 8:30am), and will be presided over by the Local Hierarch, His Eminence Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon. After the…

On Monday, 1 January 2024, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew visited the Holy Monastery of Zoodochos Pigi Valoukli, where he chanted a Trisagion (memorial service) for the repose of the soul of his predecessor, the ever-remembered Patriarch Vasilios III. His All-Holiness also prayed for Ecumenical Patriarch Maximos V, who fell asleep in the Lord on…

The President of the PASOK-Movement for Change party, Mr. Nikos Androulakis, will travel to Constantinople for the feast day of Epiphany. Today, Thursday 4 January 2024, Mr. Androulakis will visit the Zappeion High School and at 3:30pm, he will meet with His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Mr. Bartholomew at the Phanar. On Saturday, 6 January 2024,…

On Tuesday, 2 January 2024, His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch spoke with His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, to whom he expressed his personal wishes, as well as those of his Church, on the occasion of the beginning of the new year. The Ecumenical Patriarch warmly replied and also offered his wishes in return,…

On Monday morning, 1 January 2024, on the feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and the commemoration of the memory of Saint Basil the Great, the Matins and Divine Liturgy took place at the Holy Church of Panagia Koumariotissa in Neochorion, Constantinople. The Hierarchical Divine liturgy was presided over by…

The memory of the Finding of the Holy Relics of the Holy Great Martyr Ephraim the New and Wonderworker was commemorated for another year, on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 2 and 3, 2024, at the Holy Metropolis of Kifissia, Amarousion, Oropos and Marathon, and specifically at the Holy Monastery of the Annunciation of the Theotokos…

With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, His Grace Bishop Elpidios of Kyanea, Archiepiscopal Vicar of the Archdiocesan District of Perth, officiated at the Matins Service and Divine Liturgy on the first of January for the dual feast of the Circumcision of Jesus Christ and St Basil the Great, at the Church…