On the weekend of February 4 – 5, 2023 the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Jersey, with the blessings of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, concluded its Annual regional Three Hierarchs/Greek Letters Day Celebrations with events for the Southern Virginia Region taking place at Ss. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Newport News,…

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His Beatitude John X, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, received a phone call from Greek Foreign Minister His Excellency Nikos Dendias. His Excellency expressed his condolences and those of the Greek government and people for the victims of the devastating earthquake. The minister stressed that Greece stands by the Church of…

Through the Grace of God, the first aid truck departed this morning from the Patriarchal Monastery of Our Lady of Balamand towards the Lebanese-Syrian border and from there to the Archdiocese in Aleppo. The Oikonomos of the monastery, the Rt. Rev. Archimandrite Georges Yaacoub, delivered the truck at the border to Father Minas Fahoum, representing…

A record number of delegates participated at this week’s annual World Fellowship of Orthodox Youth, held in cooperation with the Fellowship of Orthodox Youth of Poland, and with the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan of Warsaw and Archbishop of All Poland Sawa. The assembly was hosted this month at the Monastery of the Annunciation in…

Theodoros Nikolaou, a professor emeritus and founder of the Orthodox theology faculty at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich passed away this week. Prof. Nikolaou was served for many years as a lecturer of ecclesiastical history and patristic studies at the specific university, and was also the chairman of the specific department. He was honored…

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Beatitude Theodoros II, commenced a pastoral visit to Kenya over the weekend, where among others, he will celebrate his patronal name-day on Friday with the Orthodox flock in the country. Arriving in the desolate region of Turkana, the Patriarch of Alexandria dedicated a new school…

More than nine days after a powerful quake shook southern Turkey and northwest Syria, rescuers are still pulling people from the rubble, defying predictions that survival time has passed. Turkish authorities today released video showing rescuers retrieving a 77-year-old woman from debris in the city of Adiyaman, a day earlier, roughly 212 hours after the…

The Church today venerates the memory of Onesimus, the Apostle of the 70. Today is also the feast day of Our Righteous Father Anthimus, the Elder of Chios.