The Service will be attended by, among others, the Chief Justice of New South Wales The annual commencement of the Law Term Service in the State of New South Wales, will be held at the Holy Cathedral of the Annunciation of Our Lady, Redfern, Sydney, on Tuesday, 31 January 2023 at 6.30 pm. The service…

On Saturday, January 28, 2023, the First Synaxis of Hierarchs of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the USA convened in Los Angeles, California, under the presidency of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America. The hierarchs, twelve in all, represent the Orthodox ecclesiastical eparchies under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, namely the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of…

Yesterday afternoon, January 26, 2023, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros made a pastoral visit in Long Island to the family of Alessia Marie Maiolica, a young child who lost her parents tragically last year. His Eminence presented the family with a donation of $60,000 in support of Alessia. Parishes from throughout the Archdiocesan District came together…

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A delegation of Vatopedi Elders, led by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Saturday will Translate an exact replica of the Cross of Sts. Constantine and Helen to a dedicated cathedral in the northwest Greece city of Kozani. The Elder Ephraim will also attend an awards…

The inauguration of the first cathedral dedicated to the newly canonized saint of the Orthodox Church, St. Gerasimos the Hymnographer, a 20th century monk and Athonite Elder, will be held on Sunday at the Skete of St. Anne, the Mother of the Most Holy Theotokos, where the newest saith of the Church toiled in ascetism….

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, on the occasion of the feast day of St. Sava, the first Archbishop and Teacher of the Serbs, as based on the Julian calendar, officiated at the Divine Liturgy on Friday at the Serbian Club in Glendale, New York. The Primate of the Serbian Patriarchate arrived in the…

The spokesman for the Patriarchate of Romania, Vasile Banesku, in a wide-ranging press interview this week, again reiterated the Church’s position that a human’s foremost right is birth, a right he said eclipses the argument of self-determination and the right to choose, in referring to the sensitive issue of abortion. The spokesman added “…the Church…

The Church today commemorates the Removal of the Relics of St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople. On the occasion, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, officiated at a Divine Liturgy on Thursday at the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George, the eve of the Translation of the Holy Relics. Based on millennia-old…