His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew honoured with his presence the memorial event held on Saturday, 6 September 2025, in Neochori on the Bosphorus, within the framework of the “THEOTOKEIA 2025” celebrations and on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the pogrom against the Greeks of Constantinople (September 6, 1955 – September 6, 2025). The…

Greece and Egypt are “close to signing an agreement” that would resolve a deepening crisis at the historic Monastery of St Catherine in Sinai, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday. Relations between Athens and Cairo have soured after an Egyptian court ruled last May that the 6th century site – the world’s oldest continuously…

“Whoever knows God, knows the purpose of his life.” (St. Maximus the Confessor) The Holy Metropolis of Sweden and All Scandinavia, on the occasion of the beginning of the new ecclesiastical year, is pleased to announce the continuation of the adult catechism classes on the Orthodox Christian faith. The lessons will be delivered in English…

Dear parents, Sunday School teachers, and beloved children, On the occasion of the beginning of the new ecclesiastical and school year, we are pleased to announce that, starting on Sunday, September 14, 2025, our parishes’ Sunday School classes will commence. We kindly ask parents who accompany their children to occupy the front pews of our…

With feelings of joy, His Beatitude Archbishop Georgios of Cyprus welcomes the operation of branches of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in Cyprus. As His Beatitude stated: “I express my particular joy because, after many difficulties and, in my opinion, unjustifiable delays, the relevant license was granted and the National and Kapodistrian…

On Wednesday afternoon, 3 September 2025, the city of Kalamata welcomed the Holy Icon of Panagia Dimiovitissa, which was brought from the Holy Monastery of Dimiova on Mount Taygetos. Before the reception, A Vespers service was celebrated at the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in the Giannitsanika district, which was presided…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will visit Thessaloniki from 26 September to 1 October, 2025. His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, accompanied by his delegation, will arrive in Thessaloniki by plane on Friday, 26 September. On Saturday, 27 September, the Ecumenical Patriarch will attend the opening of the photography exhibition by Giannis Giannatos, “Mount Athos –…

On Monday afternoon, 1 September 2025, the residents of Peristerona, a community in the Paphos district, extended a warm welcome to the Primate of the Church of Cyprus, His Beatitude Archbishop Georgios of New Justiniana and All Cyprus. The clergy and faithful of the region, who had welcomed him in 1996 as the first Bishop…

At the invitation of His Eminence Metropolitan Job of Pisidia, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew travelled by air on Tuesday, 2 September to Alanya, in southern Turkey, in order to preside at the celebrations of the Orthodox Community there, on the occasion of the feast of Panagia Pisidiotissa, which had been established by the late…