A Holy Relic of St. Polycarp, the Martyr Bishop of Smyrna, was welcomed on Monday at the Holy Cathedral of the Transformation of the Savior, in the Kordelio district of the northern city of Thessaloniki. The Holy Relic was welcomed by the resident Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis, His Eminence Barnabas, accompanied by clerics of…

The Sacred and Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople convened on Tuesday, coinciding with a historic visit to the Mother Church by the newly enthroned Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus, His Beatitude Georgios. On Tuesday, His Beatitude visited the Holy Metropolis of the Princes Isles, located in the Sea of Marmara.

Members of the Permanent Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece on Wednesday issued a decision to postpone the Translation of the Holy Icon Axion Esti to Athens this month. Hierarchs of the Church of Greece expressed their concern over the timing of the Translation of the Wonder-working Icon to the Greek capital,…

March 8 is commemorated around the world as International Women’s Day. The Church notes and stresses the contributions of women, especially the Orthodox woman, towards humanity. In Orthodoxy, a woman is reverently honored in the face of the All-Holy Theotokos, the Virgin Mary, a central figure in the salvation of man.

The Church today venerates the memory of Hermas, the Apostle of the 70. Today is also the feast day of Theophylaktos, Bishop of Nicomedea.

His Beatitude Archbishop Georgios of New Justiniana and All Cyprus visited the Holy Patriarchal and Stavropegic Monastery of Zoodochos Pigi, Baloukli, as part of his official visit at the Ecumenical Patriarchate. His Beatitude venerated at the Holy Spring and performed a Trisagion Memorial Service for the Blessed and Ever-remembered Ecumenical Patriarchs, in front of the…

The Vatican and Greece were finalizing a deal Tuesday for the return of three sculpture fragments from the Parthenon that have been in the collection of the Vatican Museums for two centuries, the latest case of a Western museum bowing to demands for restitution. The Vatican has termed the return an ecumenical “donation” to the…

“The bond of love and the fraternal relations between our two Churches are a guarantee that we will continue the common struggle in the face of contemporary religious, moral, cultural, social, economic, and technological challenges, against all tendencies that threaten the sanctity of the human person and the integrity of creation,” the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew…

With ecclesiastical brightness and splendour, the Sunday of Orthodoxy was celebrated in the Archdiocesan District of Northcote, Victoria, at the Church of Saint Paraskevi in the suburb of St. Albans in Melbourne, presided over by His Grace Bishop Evmenios of Kerasounta, joined also by Parish Priest Father Demosthenes Nikolaou. His Grace Bishop Evmenios during his…