Today is the 4th Friday after Pascha, Holy and Great Easter. The Church today venerates the memory of Lydia of Philippi, Equal to the Apostles. Today is also the feast day of Thalleleus the Martyr and his Companions.

he tragic situation in which the monument symbol of Hellenism has fallen, Hagia Sophia, was recorded in an article in the newspaper Cumhuriyet. “Hagia Sophia will not make it to 2050” was the newspaper’s ominous prediction for the World Heritage Site, which sent its journalists there, who watched the situation, saw dozens of visitors flock…

  Pemptousia will live-stream liturgical services from the Sacred Cathedral of the Holy Unmercenaries in the Plaka district of central Athens, beginning on Friday evening, on the occasion of Saturday’s great feast day of Constantine & Helen, Equals-to-the-Apostles. The live-streaming will begin at 20.00 Athens time, or 18.00 GMT, with a wake at the cathedral,…

The online platform Pemptousia, in cooperation with the parish of the Elevation of the Venerable and Life-Giving Cross, in Tbilisi, Georgia, will host the latest online Archontariki with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, today, at 20.00 Athens time, or 18.00 GMT. The Elder Ephraim will address…

The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, this week received a large delegation of local government office-holders from his native island of Crete. In receiving the group at the Archdiocese’s see in Sydney, the Archbishop briefed his fellow Cretans over the programs and activities of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia, while replying to questions regarding…

Today, May 19, marks the solemn annual Remembrance Day of the Genocide of the Pontian Greeks, a date unanimously enacted by the Greek Parliament in 1994 to honor and remember the victims of the campaign, by the Ottoman Turks and then Kemalist forces, to eradicate Hellenism from the ancient land of Pontus. The latter is…

Amid the joyous ringing of Church bells, a con-celebratory liturgy was co-officiated on Thursday by the Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, and the Archbishop of Ohrid, His Beatitude Stefan, at the historic St. Sava Cathedral of Belgrade. Archbishop Stefan arrived in the Serbian capital on Wednesday at the head of a delegation of bishops…

Today is the 4th Thursday after Pascha, Holy and Great Easter. The Church today venerates the memory of Patrick the Hieromartyr, Bishop of Proussa and his Companions.

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