On Sunday, 8 October 2023, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew attended the Divine Liturgy which took place at the Church of Saint George in Pyli, Adrianople, to mark the closing of the proceedings of the International Symposium, titled “Constantinople and Mtskheta – Ecclesiastical and Cultural Interactions”. The Symposium was under the auspices of the Ecumenical…

On Sunday, 8 October 2023, the Divine Liturgy took place at the Church of Saint George of the Makrochorion Community and was officiated by His Eminence Elder Metropolitan Apostolos of Derkoi. After the dismissal of the Divine Liturgy, a Sanctification Service (Agiasmos) was conducted to bless the beginning of the new Sunday School year in…

We are deeply grieved by the news coming from the suffering Middle East. We mourn the souls taken during the recent tragic events. May God’s embrace comfort the grieving families. Our thoughts and prayers are particularly with the civilians, who experience painful moments of anguish, terrorized by the eerie sound of the sirens and the…

The Holy Archdiocese of Australia regretfully announces the postponement of the pilgrimage trip, which was scheduled to take place during these days in Constantinople, Crete and the Holy Land in Jerusalem, led by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia. The postponement of the Pilgrimage was deemed necessary for reasons of safety of its participants, under…

On Sunday 8 October 2023, in Agios Stefanos in Constantinople, (Yeşilköy) in the presence of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the President of Turkey R.T. Erdoğan and the other religious leaders of the country, the inauguration of the first church founded during the period of the Turkish Republic, i.e. after 1923, took place. The…

Tourists at the Acropolis this holiday season can witness the resolution of one of the world’s most heated debates on cultural heritage. All they need is a smartphone. Visitors can now pinch and zoom their way around the ancient Greek site, with a digital overlay showing how it once looked. That includes a collection of…

On October 6, 2023, at the Ecumenical Patriarchal in Phanar, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, opened the International Symposium titled “Constantinople and Mtskheta – Ecclesiastical and Cultural Interactions”. The symposium, which is held under the patronage of the Ecumenical Patriarch and organised by the Georgian-specking Parish of Constantinople, is dedicated to the review of the…

The Greek Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the rocket attacks against Israel, saying it stands with the country. “Greece strongly condemns today’s launch of heavy rocket attacks from Gaza against Israel. Greece stands with Israel and is deeply concerned by this unacceptable escalation of violence,” the ministry wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. In…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America welcomed Katherine Orfanakos Demacopoulos to the Archdiocese of America on October 5, 2023, to re-appoint her as National Chairperson of the St. John Chrysostom Oratorical Festival. This ecclesiastical year marks the 40th anniversary of this beautiful ministry of our Church, which was created by Ernest Villis, then director of…