The annual Greek Independence Day parade in Tarpon Springs Florida was again impressive this year, commencing after a Doxology service at the historic Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. Nicholas, patron of seafarers, and officiated by His Grace Bishop Sevastianos. Parade marchers were cheered on by local residents, as US and Greek flags adorned the coastal…
A Trisagion memorial service was held today at the graves of the Venizelos family in western Crete, on the occasion of the 87th anniversary of the death of pre-eminent 20th century Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos. The memorial service was officiated by the resident Metropolitan of Kissamos and Selinos, His Eminence Amphilochios, and co-officiated by several…
The third part of a video has been posted today on the Orthodoxia news agency showing the Translation of an exact replica of the True Cross of Constantine the Great by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, last December to the Romanian city of Iasi. …
The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X, was due to receive today, in Lebanon, a synodal delegation of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece, headed by the Church’s Primate, His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos. The Church of Greece delegation is accompanying a shipment of humanitarian aid collected for quake-stricken residents of…
The Church today venerates the memory of Philemon and Domninos. Today is also the feast day of James the Confessor and Thomas I, Patriarch of Constantinople.
On 21 March, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who is on a visit to Lithuania for the first time at the invitation of the Head of Government. “We sincerely welcome Your All-Holiness’ first visit to Lithuania and are grateful for the attention you are paying to the Lithuanian Orthodox…
On Sunday, 19 March 2023, the third Sunday of Great and Holy Lent, Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, officiated at the Divine Liturgy at the venerable Patriarchal Church of Saint George, Phanar. Along with His All-Holiness, Their Eminences, Metropolitan Meliton of Philadelphia, Metropolitan Irenaios of Myriophytos and…
On Saturday, 18 March 2023, at the premises of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia in Melbourne, with great success and spiritual benefit, the Clergy Synaxis of the clergy of the Archdiocesan Districts of Melbourne and Northcote was held, presided over by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia. Also present for the Synaxis, in addition to…
The Greek Omogéneia of Victoria, led by its youth, honoured with emotion and pride the Heroes of the Greek Struggle for Independence, on the occasion of this year’s Greek National Anniversary of March 25, 1821. The official celebrations of the Anniversary in the Greek city of Melbourne began on Saturday, March 18, with the conducting…