The triumph of Orthodoxy over the heresy of Iconoclasm was celebrated with due splendor and solemnity on Sunday, March 13, the First Sunday of Lent, at the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint George in Brisbane, Queensland. The faithful of the Parish of Saint George had the extreme joy to receive their Shepherd and Spiritual Father,…

A School for the Learning of the Greek Language was inaugurated on Saturday, March 12, by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia in Brisbane. Specifically, the school operates on the premises of the Parish of Saint Paraskevi, Taigum, while its foundation was launched two years ago, during the first pastoral visit of the Archbishop of…

oday, March 14, 2022, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros met with Bishop Robert Stearns who oversees of the historic Tabernacle Church in Buffalo, New York. BIshop Stearns is also the founder and executive director of Eagles’ Wings which works to facillitate the rapprochement between Christians and Judaism. Archibishop Elpidophoros and Bishop Stearns discussed the role of…

On March 14, 2022, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros welcomed three young students from Fordham Preparatory School, Stephen Johnson, Theodore Daskalakis, and Basil Lambros, who presented the Archbishop with a check for $2,000, raised through their school’s Greek Club, for the Greece Fires Relief Fund. goarch.org

The radiant and venerable Sunday of Orthodoxy – the triumph of true doctrine over heresy – was celebrated with centuries-old Athonite rite at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi. The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, officiated at a synaxis of thanksgiving and a Litany of the…

The Metropolitan of Amantia, His Eminence Nathanial, on the Sunday of Orthodoxy read out a homily, issued on Feb. 28, by the Archbishop of Durres, Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios. His Beatitude called for an end to the war in Ukraine and for the faithful to intensify their prayers for peace. The homily…

Speaking on the Sunday of Orthodoxy from the city of Kananga, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, told the gathered faithful that it was unthinkable that civilians, women and children, are being killed in warfare. The Primate of the apostolic…

The regularly scheduled March sessions of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece began on Monday, with Synodal hierarchs expected to consider the abhorrent war still raging in predominately Orthodox Ukraine. According to sources who spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency, the Church of Greece’s Holy Synod will also deal with what…

Infernal war continued for a 19th straight day in Ukraine on Monday, the result of an outright invasion by Russian forces on Feb. 24. In brief, the major news from the battlefields and diplomatic front on Monday leads with resumed talks between the governments Russia and Ukraine, although communication between the two sides is difficult…