On 19 March 2023, the Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross, the Abbot of the Holy Monastery Esphigmenou of Mount Athos, Archimandrite Bartholomew, Fathers of the Esphigmenou Monastery, along with the Abbot of the Holy Monastery of the Holy Anargyroi in Pernik, Bulgaria, Archimandrite Nikanor, all con-celebrated the Divine Liturgy which took place…

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A new Orthodox church dedicated to St. Eleftherios was built in the town of Rukoma, in extreme northwest Tanzania, with donations from the parishes of St. Eleftherios in the Acharnon district of central Athens, and the same-name parish in the Gyzi district, also in Athens. The previous small chapel of St. Eleftherios, at the same…

The annual Greek Independence Day parade in Tarpon Springs Florida was again impressive this year, commencing after a Doxology service at the historic Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. Nicholas, patron of seafarers, and officiated by His Grace Bishop Sevastianos. Parade marchers were cheered on by local residents, as US and Greek flags adorned the coastal…

A Trisagion memorial service was held today at the graves of the Venizelos family in western Crete, on the occasion of the 87th anniversary of the death of pre-eminent 20th century Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos. The memorial service was officiated by the resident Metropolitan of Kissamos and Selinos, His Eminence Amphilochios, and co-officiated by several…

The third part of a video has been posted today on the Orthodoxia news agency showing the Translation of an exact replica of the True Cross of Constantine the Great by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, last December to the Romanian city of Iasi.   …

The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X, was due to receive today, in Lebanon, a synodal delegation of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece, headed by the Church’s Primate, His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos. The Church of Greece delegation is accompanying a shipment of humanitarian aid collected for quake-stricken residents of…

The Church today venerates the memory of Philemon and Domninos. Today is also the feast day of James the Confessor and Thomas I, Patriarch of Constantinople.

On 21 March, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who is on a visit to Lithuania for the first time at the invitation of the Head of Government. “We sincerely welcome Your All-Holiness’ first visit to Lithuania and are grateful for the attention you are paying to the Lithuanian Orthodox…