Sauturday Aug 12, 2023, 07:30-09:00 PM Athens Time Interpretation will be available in Romanian, English, French, Georgian. Arabic and Russian. The e-Synaxis is organised by the web magazine PEMPTOUSIA and the Evgenios Voulgaris Digital Academy. Please register in advance for this meeting by clicking on the following link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpf-Copz0vEtfCBW8Ow8zyCVO4vNmrAJn5 After registering, you will receive a…

The Patriarchate of Jerusalem celebrated the feast of Saint John Jacob the New Chozebite on August 10. This year, on the feast of Saint John Jacob, Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem presided over the all-night vigil at Chozeba Monastery, having as concelebrants Metropolitan Hesychios of Capitolias and Archbishop Aristarchos of Constantine. The three hierarchs participated…

With the help of God and the blessing of our Virgin Mary, the planned project of painting the dome and niche of the church of the Dormition of the Theotokos in the city of Jeonju, South Korea, was successfully completed. This great work in scope and importance was done in only twenty working days, for…

The 25th World Scout Jamboree was held in Saemangeum of Korea in the first week of August 2023, during which about forty thousand scouts participated. A large group of Orthodox scouts from many countries also participated in this. His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew sent a significant patriarchal Message to the International Link of…

On Thursday, 10 August 2023, His Eminence Metropolitan Daniel of Tokyo and All Japan (Moscow Patriarchate) fell asleep in the lord at the age of 85 years. His Eminence was born as Ikuo Noushiro in Toyohashi, Japan on September 5, 1938. In 1956, he embraced Orthodoxy, taking the name Judas in honour of the Apostle…

On Thursday, 10 August 2023, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew officiated at the Service of the Supplicatory Canon to the Theotokos at the Church of Panagia Koumariotissa of the Neochorion Community. His Eminence Metropolitan Athenagoras of Kydonia warmly welcomed and addressed His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, whom in turn thanked Metropolitan Athenagoras and addressed the…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will preside over the feast day celebrations of the Dormition of the Theotokos at the Historical Holy Monastery of Panagia Soumela in Pontus, on the 15th of August, 2023. On the eve of the feast, Monday 14 August 2023, the Great Vespers of the feast will be celebrated in the…

On 10 August 2023, the representative of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, who arrived in Ukraine at the invitation of Metropolitan Epiphaniy of Kyiv and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, met with the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine at his residence in the St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery. Metropolitan…

The Holy Sepulchre Brotherhood sadly announces the death of Monk Panteleimon Andronikos, of Saint Savva’s Lavra, which happened today, Thursday, July 28/August 10, 2023, in Kythera, where he was born, possibly from a heart attack at sea. The deceased practised for years in the holy Lavra of Saint Savva the Sanctified by his Elder and…