With ecclesiastical order, humility, and profound spiritual compunction, the memory of Saint Photios the Great, Archbishop of Constantinople, the wise and God-inspired hierarch, luminary of Orthodoxy, and tireless defender of the truth of the faith, was celebrated at the Holy Patriarchal and Stavropegic Monastery of Saint Anastasia Pharmakolytria, in Vasilika of Thessaloniki. The Eucharistic Synaxis…

On Friday, 6 February 2026, the feast of Saint Photios, Patriarch of Constantinople, a Synodal Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the katholikon of the Holy Monastery of Penteli, in the presence of His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece. The Divine Liturgy was presided over by the Vice President of the Holy Synod,…

Icons of the Theotokos and Christ Child and of Saint Dimitrios the Great Martyr were installed on Tuesday at the new laboratory of the Bulgarian research base “St. Clement of Ohrid” on Livingston Island. The icons were donated by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Bulgaria and His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. Professor Christo Pimpirev, head…

Architect Buse Ceren Gul is on a mission: restore a 166-year-old Greek Orthodox church that was long a beacon of her hometown’s multicultural past. She believes restoring the church left mostly in ruins by the earthquakes in southern Turkey three years ago will help locals reconnect to their city. The magnitude 7.8 earthquake on 6…

His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem, together with the Council of Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem, today received Consuls General and members of the diplomatic corps at the headquarters of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. During the meeting, His Beatitude addressed the urgent moral responsibilities confronting the land and its people. In…

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America is pleased to announce that His Beatitude Archbishop Ioan of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania will be visiting the United States of America. At the invitation of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, His Beatitude will offer the keynote address at the International Conference organized by the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at…

Addressing the Leadership 100 Conference in Phoenix, the Archbishop outlined two transformative goals and spoke forcefully against far-right extremism in Orthodox Christianity His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America laid out a sweeping vision for the future of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese during a question-and-answer session at the 35th Annual Conference of the Archbishop Iakovos Leadership…

With the cloudy sky of Korea, the snowy city of Seoul and the thermometer ranging between -15 to -17 degrees Celsius, the camp officials began to welcome elementary, middle, and high school students to the Camp facilities in the city of Chuncheon. During the few days of the winter School vacation,  the goal was to…

On Wednesday, 4 February 2026, the Patriarchate of Alexandria welcomed two groups of pilgrims from Greece and Germany at the Patriarchal See in Alexandria with profound spiritual joy. The pilgrims were undertaking a journey to the holy sites of Orthodoxy in Egypt. The first group came from the Holy Church of Saint Nicholas of Philopappou…