With the traditional modesty and simple liturgical dignity characteristic of the Constantinopolitan Church, the liturgical life in picturesque Neochorion continued throughout Holy and Great Week. On the evenings of Palm Sunday, Great Monday, and Great Tuesday, the Bridegroom Services were celebrated at the Church of Saint Nicholas. On Great Wednesday, at the Church of Saint…

With ecclesiastical splendour and Paschal joy, The Sunday of Thomas was celebrated at the Church of Saint Eleftherios in Brunswick, Melbourne, of the Greek Community of Melbourne and Victoria. On this occasion, the memory of the 179 Holy New Martyrs of the Holy Monastery of Pantokrator in Penteli, Greece, whose sacred relics are preserved in…

In a spirit of joy and unity, the festive gathering of the faithful of the Holy Metropolis of Derkoi was held for the second consecutive year, with the contribution of four of the five Community Administrative Committees, on Saturday, 18 April, in the courtyard of the Metropolitan Church of Saint Paraskevi in Therapia. The event…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew attended, in prayerful participation, on Thomas Sunday (Antipascha), 19 April 2026, at the Patriarchal Church of Saint George, during the Divine Liturgy presided over by His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph of Proikonnisos. On the previous day, His All-Holiness presided at the Great Vespers, at the conclusion of which he welcomed pilgrims…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew received in audience, on the Sunday of Thomas, the Hieromonks Georgios Vatopaidinos, Ieronymos Simonopetritis, and Nikodimos Agiopavlitis, members of the Supervisory Board of the Athonias Ecclesiastical Academy, together with Mr Georgios Metallidis and Mr Anastasios Sideris, Director and Professor of the School respectively, as well as a group of graduating…

On Sunday, the 6th/19th of April 2026, the Patriarchate celebrated the Sunday of Thomas. On this feast, the Church commemorates the appearance of the risen Lord Jesus Christ unto His disciples, both on the first day after the Resurrection and again on the eighth day, when Thomas was with them and, “having seen, he believed”…

On Sunday, the 6th/19th of April 2026, the Patriarchate celebrated the Sunday of Thomas. According to its own tradition, the Community of Cana of Galilee observes on this day as the event of the confession of the Apostle Thomas, who was from Cana (John 20:19–31), together with the first sign wrought there by Christ, namely…

With due ecclesiastical splendour and national pride, the Holy Metropolis of Phocis participated on the Sunday of Thomas , 19 April, in the commemorative events marking the 205th anniversary of the liberation of the Castle of Salona, the first major victory of the Greek War of Independence in Eastern Central Greece. The celebrations were honoured…

On Bright Saturday, April 18, 2026, His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia, together with His Grace Bishop Bartholomew of Elaia, welcomed in Stockholm the visiting Member of Parliament for the Cyclades and Chairman of the Hellenic Parliament’s Special Committee on Diaspora Affairs, the Honorable Mr. Filippos Fortomas, who was accompanied by the…