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…

Digital Fellowship from Mount Athos with Elder Ephraim Tuesday Apr 25, 2023, 07:30-09:00 PM Athens Time You are invited to participate in the Digital Fellowship from Mount Athos with Elder Ephraim, which will take place Tuesday Apr 25, 2023, 07:30-09:00 PM Athens Time. Interpretation will be available in Romanian, English, French, Georgian. Arabic and Russian….

“The ANZACs have been recorded as models of selflessness and self-sacrifice in the consciousness of the Greek people”, notes His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, in his message for today’s Australian national commemoration of ANZAC Day. His Eminence reminds, moreover, that “the soils of our homeland, from Lemnos to Crete, and in many other corners…

With feelings of unceasing praise to God, and spiritual uplift, all the parishes of the Orthodox Metropolis of Korea celebrated the Lord’s Passion and glorious Resurrection. After the many obstacles during the three previous years due to the pandemic, for the first time during this year’s Holy Week and Easter, the participation of the faithful…

STOCKHOLM – On the weekend of April 22-23, 2023, the Holy Metropolis of Sweden and All Scandinavia celebrated the feast of the Great Martyr St. George the Trophy-Bearer, patron saint of the Metropolis Cathedral in Stockholm, which bears his name. On the afternoon of Saturday April 22nd, the service of Great Vespers was held with…

The festive Sunday Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the Church of the Holy Transfiguration of the Savior in Coventry on Thomas Sunday. His Grace Bishop Maximos of Melitene presided over the ceremony, with the participation of the Protopresbyter Fr. Theodoros Polyviou. At the end of the Divine Liturgy, His Grace distributed holy icons of Saint…