With all due solemnity and in accordance with the tradition formed over the centuries, the Sunday of Orthodoxy was celebrated on 1st of March 2026 at the Sacred Cathedral of the First-Throned Church of Constantinople. The Divine Liturgy was presided over by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, concelebrating with Their Eminences the Metropolitans Ambrosios of…

With due ecclesiastical splendour, the Sunday of Orthodoxy was celebrated at the Cathedral of the Annunciation of Our Lady in Sydney. His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia presided over the Matins Service and officiated at the concelebrated Divine Liturgy together with Their Graces Bishop Christodoulos of Magnesia, Chief Secretary of the Holy Eparchial Synod, and…

LOMBARD, IL, March 2, 2026 – Following an election by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on Monday, March 2, the Very Reverend Archimandrite Dionysios Anagnostopoulos was raised to the Holy Episcopacy as Auxiliary Bishop to His Eminence Metropolitan Nathanael of Chicago. Upon his election, he bears the title His Grace Bishop-elect…

On February 28, the Community of St. John Chrysostom Orthodox Station under the jurisdiction of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa, Archdiocese of Nigeria, was deeply honored to welcome the presence of their local hierarch, His Eminence Archbishop Nikodemus of Nigeria to UmuoforOwu Amakohia in Ikeduru Imo State, where he officiated the…

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel underscored on Sunday the essential role of holy icons in the life of believers, stating that “icons invite us to prayer, to holiness and to communion with all the Saints of God.” The Patriarch of Romania attended the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, celebrated by his Patriarchal Auxiliary…

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel was congratulated on Sunday at the end of the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest on the 36th anniversary of his episcopal ordination. Before delivering the congratulatory message, Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam of Ploiești presented the volume “The Centennial of the Romanian Patriarchate, New Romanian Saints and the Consecration…

By Observer staff March 1, 2026 This morning, His Beatitude Archbishop Joani of Tirana, Durrës, and All Albania presided over a pan-Orthodox Hierarchal Divine Liturgy at St. Catherine Greek Orthodox Church in Braintree, Massachusetts, concelebrating with His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and numerous hierarchs from abroad and belonging to the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox…

In the afternoon of the First Sunday of the Great Lent, 16 February / 1 March 2026, at 2.30 p.m., the Lenten (Compunctionate) Vespers was celebrated, not in the usual order in the still-closed Church of the Holy Sepulchre, but in the Patriarchal and Monastic Church of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre of Saints…

On Sunday, 16 February / 1 March 2026, the Patriarchate celebrated the Sunday of Orthodoxy. On this day, the Church commemorates and solemnly celebrates the restoration of the venerable holy icons to the sacred Churches, as testimonies and witnesses to the divine Incarnation and the earthly presence of the Son and Word of God, our…