On Saturday 22nd April 2023, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain led a group of nearly 100 young adults from the Christian Orthodox Thyateira Youth (COTY) on a pilgrimage to the Holy Patriarchal and Stavropegial Monastery of St. John the Baptist in Essex. During the pilgrimage, the young adults witnessed the ordination…

On the Tuesday of Bright Week, the 19th of April 2023, His Grace Bishop Iakovos of Claudiopolis presided at the Hierarchical and Festal Divine Liturgy of Ss Raphael, Nicholas and Irene at the Parish’s feast in Enfield. The Reverend Protopresbyters Frs Athanasios Melissaris (Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Throne and Professor of the University of Athens),…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew officiated on the Saturday of Bright Week, April 22, at the Divine Liturgy during which the memory of Hieromartyr Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople was commemorated a week later, as this year’s feast day coincided within the period of Great and Holy Week. The Divine Liturgy was celebrated by Archimandrite…

Archimandrite Elisaios, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras In the magnificent service on Great Friday, we sang the compelling and wonderful doxastiko from the ninth hour ‘Today he who hung the earth on the waters hangs upon the cross’, which ends ‘we venerate your Passion, Christ. Show us your glorious Resurrection’. Thereafter, in…

On the Sunday of Thomas, 23 April 2023, at the Metropolitan Church of the Transfiguration of Our Saviour, in Naousa, the memory of the Holy New Martyrs of Naousa, who were martyred in 1822 during the holocaust of the heroic city, was celebrated with splendor. At the Poly-Hierarchical Divine Liturgy which took place, His Eminence…

In a joyful Resurrection atmosphere and with deep reverence, on the Sunday of Thomas, 23 April 2023, the Venerable Patriarchal Church celebrated its patron, Saint George the Great Martyr and Trophy Bearer. The Divine Liturgy was presided over by His Eminence Metropolitan Theoleptos of Iconium, and His Eminence Metropolitan Andreas of Forty Churches and His…

With ecclesiastical splendour and in an atmosphere of joy of the resurrection, the memory of Saint George the Great Martyr and Trophy Bearer and Miracle Worker was celebrated at the Holy Monastery of Saint George in Yellow Rock, New South Wales. The Brotherhood of the Monastery, with its Abbot, Archimandrite of the Ecumenical Throne Ieronymos,…

On Thomas Sunday, 23 April 2023, and the day when our Church honours the memory of Saint George the Great Martyr, the Church of Saint George of the Greek Community of Melbourne and Victoria, in Thornbury, celebrated. On behalf of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, His Grace Bishop Evmenios of Kerasounta, Archiepiscopal Vicar of…

With the Blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, on the Sunday of Thomas, 23 April 2023, The Archiepiscopal Vicar of Canberra, His Grace Bishop Bartholomew of Charioupolis, officiated at the Matins and presided over the Festive Divine Liturgy at the Holy Church of Saint George, in Hobart, Tasmania, on the Patronal Feast day…