The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco Folk Dance and Choral Festival is pleased to announce that Online Registration for FDF 2024 is now open! Please visit our FDF Participant Registration page for more information. Please note the Early Registration deadline is 12/19/23 and prices will increase on 12/20/23. Online registration closes on 1/16/24. While…

Beloved sisters and brothers in Christ, Every time I come here to Ground Zero, and I pause to meditate on the sorrowful and tragic events that unfolded here on September 11, 2001, I look at this shining American Parthenon of Orthodoxy, and I give thanks for our prayerful, loving and compassionate presence. It is such…

On Wednesday, December 6, 2023, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America presided over the Divine Liturgy at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine to celebrate the feast day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. In his Homily, Archbishop Elpidophoros acknowledged the significance of Orthodox Christians gathering at this sacred site. “We are surrounded by…

Pemptousia would like to invite you to join us for a Digital Fellowship on Saturday 9th Dec 2023 at 07:30 PM Athens time (05:30 pm UK Time) (12:30 PM EST) The talk will be in Greek with simultaneous translation into English, Romanian, French, Russian, Georgian and Arabic. There will be time for questions and answers…

On Wednesday, 6 December 2023, a Patriarchal Divine Liturgy took place at the Basilica of Saint Nicholas in Myra of Lycia, presided over by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. His All-Holiness was joined in the Divine Liturgy by, Their Eminences, Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, Elder Metropolitan Apostolos of Derkoi, Metropolitan Andreas of Arkalochori, Metropolitan…

The Greek preparatory school of Saint Nicholas, in Tema, Ghana, was visited by the Minister of National Defense of Greece, Mr. Nikos Dendias, on the occasion of his participation in the UN Ministerial Meeting for the Support of Peace Operations in the African country, celebrating with the children yesterday’s feast day dedicated to Saint Nicholas,…

On 10 January 2023, the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate made the decision to register Elder Gerasimos Mikragiannanitis in the Diptychs of the Orthodox Church. The Monk Gerasimos the Mikragiannanite (September 5, 1905 – December 7, 1991) and born Anastasios – Athanasios was a contemporary hymn writer, one of the rare cases…

On Wednesday, 6 December 2023, the Feast Day of Saint Nicholas was joyously celebrated in the magnificent Church of ‘Agios Nikolaos’ in Larissa, Greece. On this day, the Church commemorates the great Hierarch Saint Nicholas, protector of the orphans and the suffering, the man of God and good Shepherd, the Archbishop of Myra in Lycia,…

On Monday evening, 5 December 2023, His Eminence Metropolitan Dorotheos II of Syros, officiated at the Great Vespers which took place at the magnificent and historic Holy Cathedral of Saint Nicholas of Ermoupolis, and was joined by the Holy Clergy of Syros, in the presence of Cycladic Parliamentarians Mr. Philippos Fortomas and Markos Kafouros, the…