The Church today venerates the memory of Hermas, the Apostle of the 70. Today is also the feast day of Theophylaktos, Bishop of Nicomedea.

His Beatitude Archbishop Georgios of New Justiniana and All Cyprus visited the Holy Patriarchal and Stavropegic Monastery of Zoodochos Pigi, Baloukli, as part of his official visit at the Ecumenical Patriarchate. His Beatitude venerated at the Holy Spring and performed a Trisagion Memorial Service for the Blessed and Ever-remembered Ecumenical Patriarchs, in front of the…

The Vatican and Greece were finalizing a deal Tuesday for the return of three sculpture fragments from the Parthenon that have been in the collection of the Vatican Museums for two centuries, the latest case of a Western museum bowing to demands for restitution. The Vatican has termed the return an ecumenical “donation” to the…

“The bond of love and the fraternal relations between our two Churches are a guarantee that we will continue the common struggle in the face of contemporary religious, moral, cultural, social, economic, and technological challenges, against all tendencies that threaten the sanctity of the human person and the integrity of creation,” the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew…

With ecclesiastical brightness and splendour, the Sunday of Orthodoxy was celebrated in the Archdiocesan District of Northcote, Victoria, at the Church of Saint Paraskevi in the suburb of St. Albans in Melbourne, presided over by His Grace Bishop Evmenios of Kerasounta, joined also by Parish Priest Father Demosthenes Nikolaou. His Grace Bishop Evmenios during his…

Although located thousands of kilometres away from Greece, the Greeks of Australia was and remains shocked by the fatal train accident, which happened on the evening of February 28 in the area of Tempe, Greece. In the wake of this unspeakable tragedy, the students of the Greek Orthodox College of Saint Euphemia, in the Sydney…

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Office of Education is pleased to announce that the World Language Comprehensive Examination in Modern Greek will be administered on Tuesday, June 20th, from 1:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. The Comprehensive Examination in Modern Greek is “a locally developed foreign language examination” developed and administered by the Department of…

On Sunday, February 26, 2023, with the blessings of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, His Grace Bishop Apostolos of Medeia celebrated the Great Hierarchal Forgiveness Vespers at St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Piscataway, New Jersey, to mark the start of the Holy and Great Lent. Participating in the service were the Clergy of…

Restoration works commenced this week at the historic 14th century Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas Raikov, which is located in the Kosovo and Metohija city of Prizren. It’s reminded that Kosovo Albanian extremists had attempted to blow up the church in 1999. Although significant damage was caused, the place of worship remained standing. In…