Pemptousia platform today has posted several features and programs to commemorate the three-year anniversary of the canonization of the Elder Joseph the Hesychast, along with the Elders Ephraim & Daniel Katounakiotis. The trio of new saints of the Orthodox Church was taken by a decision of the Sacred and Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate…

Three marble depictions sliced off from atop the Parthenon in the early 19th century, which subsequently ended up in Vatican’s Museums, were returned to Greece as a gift this week, with a reception ceremony held at the Acropolis Museum. The gift is a personal decision by the Pope of Rome Francis to Archbishop Ieronymos of…

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…