This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the Asia Minor catastrophe – an event that led to the extermination by the Turks of millions of Armenians, Pontian and Asia Minor Greeks, and Assyrians. With the blessing and inspiration of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia and under the guidance of the local Archepiscopal Vicar for…

From 5th until 9th October 2022 the Greek island of Rhodes hosted the 5th Conference of the Network of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for Pastoral Health Care. The Patriarchal Network brings together Orthodox Christian Clergy and a variety of professionals working in health, from all over the world. It consists of representatives from the Archdioceses and…

On Sunday the 9th of October, the feastday of St James the Apostle, the son of Alphaeus, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia officiated at the Church of All Saints in Belmore, Sydney, participating in the official celebration for the 50-year anniversary of priesthood of Protopresbyter Father Chris Triantafyllou, Rector of the Parish. Fr Chris…

Your Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa, On behalf of all the brothers and sisters of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America: The Most Reverend Metropolitans of the Holy Eparchial Synod; The Bishops, Priests, Presvyteres, Deacons and Diakonisses; The Leadership of All Archdiocesan and Metropolis Institutions; The Parish Councils, Greek Schools and…

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The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Mount Athos, speaking on the First Sunday of Luke, as based on the Julian calendar, referred to the significance of spiritual life and the acceptance of God’s Will in the life of man. The Elder Ephraim addressed the Vatopedi brotherhood…

A blessing ceremony officiated by the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Elder Metropolitan Geron, was held last week on the occasion of the new academic year for the tiny but resilient ethnic Greek community on the Marmara Sea Isle of Prinkipo, one of the Princes Islands. Greece’s Deputy Education and Religious Affairs Minister, Zeta Makri, was also on…

A service was officiated on Saturday by clerics who are graduates of the theological academy Resurrection of Christ, at the Catholicon of the Holy Monastery of St. Blaise, or Vlasios, in the Albanian port city of Durres. The year marks the 30-year anniversary of the foundation of the theological academy by the Autocephalous Orthodox Church…

The visiting Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Beatitude Theodoros II, on Sunday officiated at the Patriarchal Divine Liturgy at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York City, a service that sealed the apostolic and historic visit to America by the Primate of the Alexandria Church. The Archbishop…