The Sunday after Epiphany, the 8 of January 2023, commenced with the Matins and Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the Church of Saint Nektarios and was officiated by His Grace Bishop Elpidios of Kyanea. Following the service, the annual retrieval of the Holy Cross took place at Matilda Bay Reserve in Crawley opposite the University of…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, serving as a member of the Holy Synod, was welcomed today at the Ecumenical Patriarchate by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. His Eminence presented His All-Holiness with a gift of a Hierarchal Pendant, or engolpion, which featured the icon of the Apokethelosis, when the Virgin Mary beheld the body…

A new seminar on olive tree cultivation and the production of olive oil and table olives is being organized by the digital academy Evgenios Voulgaris. The seminar is based on the centuries of experience in the field acquired by the monks of the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi, as the venerable Mount Athos monastery…

The deputy ambassador of the US embassy in Ankara, Scott Oudkirk, made a private visit on Sunday with his family to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople’s Theological School of Halki. The distinguished guests were received by the Abbot of the Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Bishop Kassianos, and the monastery’s brotherhood. During his meeting with…

An ecclesiastical process is underway on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus to select a new Metropolitan of Paphos, after the election and enthronement of Georgios III as the new Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus. The election is expected to take place in late February, in a period after the two rounds of…

Former Patriarch of Jerusalem Irenaios reposed in the Lord on Tuesday at a central Athens hospital, after facing serious health problems over the recent period. After the intervention of Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, former Patriarch Irenaios had resided at the Archdiocese of Athens’ St. Porphyrios center for gerontology and elderly…

The Church today venerates the memory of St. Gregory of Nyssa.

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On the Sunday after Theophany, His Eminence Metropolitan Ieronymos of Larissa and Tyrnavos travelled to the Holy Pilgrimage site of Agia Paraskevi in Tempe, and conducted the blessing of the waters in front of the blessed spring, and following this, blessed the waters of the Pineios River from the suspension bridge above. In his short…