The contest is organized to present the diversity and beauty of Orthodoxy in Greece. Through this contest, which will culminate with an album and an exhibition, we would like to present for wider audience Christian life in Greece. We are looking for images in these categories: Churches (architecture, frescos, crosses, tombs, landscape) People (ordained and…

The feast of the Twelve Apostles was celebrated with splendour, devotion and in a church full of people, at the Holy Metropolitan Church of Saint Paraskevi, on Friday, June 30, 2023, during which His Eminence Metropolitan Apostolos of Derkoi celebrated his name day. On the eve of the feast, on Thursday evening, the Vespers service…

On Friday, 30 June 2023, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia received with great joy the visit of Metropolitan Anthony of Hierapolis and Archbishop Daniel of Pamphilon, Hierarchs of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for the pastoral care of our Ukrainian brethren in the Diaspora. Upon their arrival at the headquarters of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia,…

On Sunday, the 2nd of July 2023, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain presided over Matins and celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the parish of Saints Peter and Paul the Apostles in Bristol. Serving alongside the Archbishop were Rev. Protopresbyter Georgios Nikolaou, Rev. Protopresbyter Anastasios Salapatas, Priest-in-Charge, and Archdeacon George Tsourous. This…

On1st July 2023, His Grace Iakovos, Bishop of Claudiopolis, solemnly presided Matins and celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the the patronal feast of the parish of the Holy Unmercenaries, Ss Cosmas and Damian in Gospel Oak. The Very Rev Archimandrite Chrysostomos Tympas, the Revs Oeconomos Reghinos Charalambous and Cristian Akselberg, Archdeacon George Tsourous and Deacon…

On Friday 30 June 2023, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain presided at the Matins and celebrated the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom at the Church of Twelve of Apostles in Hatfield, Greater London. His Grace Iakovos, Bishop of Claudiopolis, The Priest-in-charge Revd Protopresbyter Joseph Paliouras, the Rev. Oeconomos Dimitrianos Melekis,…

In 2013, a young camper named Katherine Norton captured the hearts of Staff and admin alike at Ionian Village. Only a few years later, Katherine passed away after a prolonged illness, and yet her memory lived on in the hearts of many of the people who were at the camp with her. In 2017, following…

It is with sentiments of great joy and spiritual gladness that we communicate the recent election by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, at the proposal of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, of the V. Rev. Archimandrite Theophan Koja as Bishop of Philomelion, serving the pastoral needs of the Albanian Orthodox Diocese…

On Tuesday, June 14/27, 2023, the feast of the prophet Elisha was celebrated by the Patriarchate. This feast was celebrated in the Holy Monastery named after him in Jericho, in the area where there is also the sycamore tree of Zacchaeus. During this feast, the Church commemorates that the prophet Elisha was descended from the…