In a message for the third Sunday after Pascha, April 30, 2023, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel expressed his gratitude to all Christian women for their work in the Church and society. The Holy Myrrhbearers are models for Christian women: full text Christ is risen! On the third Sunday after the feast of the Resurrection of…

Representing His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, His Grace Bishop Kyriakos of Sozopolis accompanied by His Grace Bishop Evmenios of Kerasounta, and clergy from around Australia conducted a Doxology Service for the commencement of The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia National Schools Event. Even though this blessed initiative has been running for the last 20…

The remains of Romanian Athonite elder Petroniu Tănase were ceremoniously exhumed on Thursday, April 27, 12 years after the elder’s passing away into the Lord. Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam of Ploieşti presided over the service held at Holy Mount Athos’s Romanian Prodromu Skete. The Romanian Metropolis of Muntenia and Dobrogea proposes the Athonite elder for…

The President of the Hellenic Republic and the Governor-General of Australia made a special mention of the contribution of the Greek diaspora The stable ties of friendship and cooperation between Greece and Australia, as well as the scope for strengthening bilateral relations between the two governments, were at the centρε of the meeting held on…

The Archdiocesan pilgrimages have provided an outstanding opportunity for the faithful of the Church to participate in spiritually edifying and didactic journeys to various venerable sites of the Orthodox Faith around the world. His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros organized these initiatives, which have already brought about several successful, very well attended and memorable trips to the…

Sunday, the 17th / 30th of April 2023, was celebrated by the Patriarchate as the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women and Joseph of Arimathea in accordance with the Gospel narratives and the book of Pentecost on the 3rd Sunday of the Resurrection. On this feast, the Church commemorates Joseph of Arimathea, the present day Ramle,…

On Saturday, April 16th/29th, 2023, the eve of the Sunday of Myrrh-bearing Women, the Community of South Pkea, a town of the region of Acre – Ptolemais under its priest Fr Ioannis, the Commissioners and about twenty members visited the Patriarchate and thanked His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos for the ecclesiastical,…

St Andrew’s Grammar Day School held their Anzac Day commemoration on the morning of 27 April 2023. The whole school, as well as members of the wider community came together for the commemoration hosted by both Primary and Secondary student leadership team. Unfortunately, the threat of rain meant that the Service needed to be moved…

On Saturday, April 22, the opening ceremony of the 4th International Online Meeting/Festival – “Youth Theater On Air” took place. This is a program that started in 2020, in the midst of a pandemic, with organisers the Poupoulos Theatrical Visual Arts Centre in Thessaloniki, Motivation in Art of Paphos, Cyprus and Creative Drama & Arts…