Pantocrator Monastery in Teleorman County will celebrate its patronal feast next Sunday when the Orthodox Church remembers the Holy Myrrh-bearers. On this occasion, several fragments of holy relics and an icon of the Mother of God will be transported from Greece. The Honourable Head of Saint Thomas the Apostle will be brought to the monastery…

A C-27 transport plane of the Hellenic Air Force lifted off the airport of Aswan, Egypt for Djibouti on Tuesday to pick up Greeks evacuated from Sudan. The aircraft is the second one this day to transport Greeks from Sudan, where internal fighting continues for the second week. A ceasefire allowed the evacuation. Earlier in…

Dear Children: Katie, Maria, and Eleni, Your Grace and Reverend Fathers, Brothers and Sisters in the Risen Christ, Χριστός Ἀνέστη! [Ἀληθῶς Ἀνέστη!] Even in the midst of this pain and grief that we observe at this moment, we make our solemn affirmation: Christ is Risen! Even now, our beloved Father Angelo is joining in our…

With much enthusiasm, beginning on the evening of St. Thomas Sunday, the School of Byzantine Music (SBM) is launching its new podcast called, “Foundations of Hymnology.” New episodes will premiere on the evening of the last Sunday of each month. The SBM Podcast will be available on the school’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@goarchsbm/podcasts. The SBM Podcast…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, Chairman of the Board of Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, has with regret accepted the resignation of George M. Cantonis from the position of President of the institution effective August 31, 2023. President Cantonis communicated his intention in a letter to His Eminence and to…

On Monday, 11th/24th April 2023, after Thomas Sunday, His Eminence Metropolitan Ioannikios of Montenegro and a group of pilgrims with him, Priests and laity, visited His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos and asked His blessing and congratulated Him on the feast of Pascha. After that, the Priests and members of the Bethlehem…

Sunday, April 10/23, 2023, was celebrated by the Patriarchate as Antipascha or Thomas Sunday, that is, as a commemoration of the fact that the Lord on the eighth day after His Resurrection appeared to the disciples again, as they were gathered in the Upper room with the doors closed when Thomas was also with them…

At noon on Bright Thursday, April 7/20, 2023, the sacrament of Baptism was performed in the Grotto of Bethlehem by the Most Reverend Metropolitan Isychios of Kapitolias for the infant Angelina, daughter of the Consul at the Greek Embassy in Tel Aviv – Anastasios Konstandaras and the Consul at the Greek Consulate General in Jerusalem…

On the Sunday of Thomas, the 23 April 2023, the Feast Day of St George the Great Martyr was celebrated with splendour at the Church of St Nektarios in Dianella. The morning commenced with the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy officiated by His Grace Bishop Elpidios of Kyanea and which was followed by a paschal procession outside…