With the blessing of Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and His Grace Bishop Apostolos of Medeia, more than 100 people attended “Women In Orthodoxy,” the New Jersey Lenten Retreat of the Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The talented panel of speakers was led by Archon George E. Demacopoulos, PhD, the…

(Edited by John Chryssavgis with a foreword by John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.) In celebration of the 2021 visit to the University of Notre Dame by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, as well as the thirtieth anniversary of his election, this groundbreaking volume gathers together and introduces eleven important joint statements from the patriarch, addressing diverse topics from…

The Patriarchate of Jerusalem, represented by His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, along the Holy Synod and the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, the clergy and the faithful, condemn the heinous terrorist attack that took place this morning during the Sunday service, at the hands of two Israeli radicals, which targeted the…

On Friday, March 4/17, 2023, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of our holy Father Gerasimos of the Jordan in his holy Monastery, located on the West Bank of the Jordan River in front of its mouth at the Dead Sea. About Abba Gerasimos, the Church has handed down to us that he came from Lycia…

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The Pemptousia online platform has introduced an improved application called ‘Vimatarissa’, named after the patronal icon of the Mother of God, preserved at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi. With the Vimatarissa app, useidiers can access the Internet and read the ‘Words of Life’ segment, by the Fathers and Saints of the Orthodox Church,…

Today marks the dour 19-year anniversary of a two-day pogrom against ethnic Serbs by ethnic Albanians in the Kosovo and Metohija province. Nineteen people were killed and more than 4,000 Serbs fled from their ancestral homes, with ethnic cleansing taking place in six towns and nine villages. Thirty-nine Orthodox Churches and monasteries were vandalized and…

The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, on Wednesday welcomed the Parish priest and a delegation of laymen of the newly established Greek Orthodox parish in Darwin, located in Australia’s Northern Territory. The purpose of the delegation’s visit to the Holy Archdiocese in Sydney was to receive the blessing of the shepherd of the Greek…

Haverford College professor emeritus Alexander Kitroeff spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency this week on the inseparable bonds linking the ethnic Greek community in Egypt and the Greek diaspora in the United States with the Orthodox Church. Kitroeff, a noted historian specializing in modern Greek history, has ancestral ties to Alexandria. Among others, he referred…