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The latest digital fellowship with the Elder Ephraim is scheduled for today, at 19:30 Athens time, or 17.30 GMT. The Abbot of the venerable Mount Athos monastery will be joined by students of the Sts. Nicholas and John parish, in Cluj, Romania. The synaxis, or assembly, will be held in Greek, with simultaneous translation into…

An 11-member group of choristers of the psaltic academy Eirmos paid a three-day pilgrimage to the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi last week. Eirmos is the only youth Byzantine choir in Greece, under the direction of Spyridonas Aspiotis. The choir performed the hymns of the Divine Liturgy of the Pre-sanctified Gifts on Friday, which…

The cousin and the spiritual children of Cypriot independence hero and martyr Evagoras Pallikarides, on the solemn occasion of the 66th anniversary of his execution by British colonial forces, spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency this week. Evagoras Pallikarides was hanged on March 14, 1957 at the age of 19, the youngest and last independence…

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, accompanied by the country’s culture minister, Lina Mendoni, on Monday afternoon inaugurated an exhibition of heirlooms, Holy Icons, liturgical objects and print editions reverently brought to Greece by ethnic Greek refugees of Asia Minor after 1922. The exhibition, entitled “Ave Asia Minor: A Cradle of…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Monday received at the Mother Church’s Phanar-district seat, the visiting president of the Republic of North Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovski. The Balkan country’s head of state was accompanied by his spouse and senior members of the country’s presidency. In his statements posted on the presidency’s…

The new President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, continued an official visit to Athens on Tuesday, with meetings with Greek leadership and political party leaders. Christodoulides, who was elected as the island republic’s head of state last month, met with Greek foreign Minister Nikos Dendias. Afterwards, he was received by the Archbishop of…

The Church today venerates the memory of Euschemon the Confessor. Today is also the feast day of Benedict the Righteous of Nursia.

The President of the Republic of North Macedonia, Mr. Stevo Pendarovski, who was received with special honour, visited the Ecumenical Patriarchate on Monday, 13 March 2023, At the Propylaia (ceremonial gateway entrance) of the Patriarchate, the President, who was accompanied by his wife, high-ranking officers of the Presidency, and the Consul General of his country…