What is of great significance, is not what we do when we are undergoing our different ordeals, but how we behave when we will have gone through an experience of a person who has been wounded”, emphasises His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, in the first video message of spiritual benefit for the new year,…

On Wednesday, January 3, 2024, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America warmly welcomed His Grace Bishop Mesrop Parsamyan, the primate of the Eastern Diocese of America in the Armenian Church, to the Archdiocesan Headquarters. Bishop Mesrop, consecrated to the episcopacy on October 8, 2023, by Catholicos Karekin II in Etchmiadzin, Armenia, made his first visit…

On December 23, 2023, the Byzantine Choir of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh hosted a Choral Concert at St. Elijah Serbian Orthodox Church in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. Celebrating their 25th Year Anniversary, the Byzantine Choir of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh is more active than ever and yielding to a bright future of younger…

His Eminence Metropolitan Apostolos of New Jersey invites all the Clergy and faithful from the Northern New Jersey Region of our sacred Metropolis to participate in the Annual Epiphany Celebration and Blessing of the Waters on Saturday, January 6, 2024, at Molos Restaurant in Weehawken, New Jersey. goarch.org

On December 9th, Philoxenia House was visited by several parishes in the Metropolis of Boston to learn more about the ministries offered by the Metropolis in the greater Boston area: On Saturday, December 9th, the Dormition of the Virgin Mary Philoptochos (Sommerville, MA), accompanied by Fr. Anthony Tandilyan, visited the Philoxenia House. The Philoptochos generously…

On Sunday before the Nativity of Christ, December 18/31, 2023 the annual memorial service of the Holy Sepulchre Fathers, Patriarchs, Bishops, Priests, Hieromonks, monks and nuns was held at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Liturgy was officiated by His Eminence Archbishop Dimitrios of Lydda with co-celebrants the Archimandrites Philoumenos, Dionysios, Claudios, Christodoulos, Amphilochios,…

On Sunday after the Nativity of Christ, 31 December 2023, New Year’s Eve, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was present joined in prayer during the Divine Liturgy which took place at the venerable Patriarchal Church of Saint George, Phanar, and was officiated by His Eminence Metropolitan Theodoros of Seleucia. In the early afternoon on the…

With the grace and blessing of God, we celebrated this year again the birth in the flesh of the Word of God and our Savior Jesus Christ. Following the Typikon of our Church, on the morning of Friday, December 22, the Great Hours of Christmas Service was celebrated in the chapel of St. Maximus the…

Dearest Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, By the grace and philanthropy of God, we have been given once more the opportunity to celebrate the coming of the New Year 2024. During this year, our Korean Orthodox Church commemorates the 124th anniversary of its presence in Korean society. Moreover, we celebrate the 20th year since…