Metropolitan Serafim of the Romanian Metropolis of Germany and his assistant bishop Sofian of Brașov were part of a delegation of the Romanian community in Bavaria invited to the residence of Bavarian Minister President Dr Markus Söder. Her Excellency Adriana-Loreta Stănescu, the Romanian Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, accompanied the Romanians to the…

On Monday, the Deputy General Secretary of NATO, Mircea Geoană, attended the Divine Liturgy held in the Hall of Crosses at the Munich Church Centre. The distinguished guest was given a tour of the establishment, after which he posted a message of appreciation on his Facebook and Instagram profiles. Mircea Geoană wrote that the Church…

With the help of God the winter camp of the Orthodox Metropolis of Korea was held at the Camp facilities of St. Boris in Chuncheon from Friday 17/2 to Sunday 19/2. A total of 30 persons, members of the Sunday School and the youth group called “Syndesmos”, participated from the parishes of Seoul, Incheon, Ulsan,…

Father John Chryssavgis, the internationally renowned theologian who serves as Theological Advisor to His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, will offer the annual Washington Theological Consortium Lecture on Thursday, February 23, 2023, at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Father John is this year’s recipient of the Washington Theological Consortium’s Ecumenism Award. His lecture is…

Nearly 100 parishes now have access to high-tech learning tools for their students. The Department of Greek Education, with the generosity of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, for a second year, was able to purchase Interactive Panels, SMART TVs, and Chromebooks for parishes that teach the Greek language. Additional funding was also made available for the…

The parish of St. Polycarpos in western Thessaloniki, as of yesterday, enjoys and the blessing and intercession of the Holy Icon of the Cincture of the Panaghia, the All-Holy Virgin Mary, as an exact replica of the wonder-working icon was Translated this week from the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi. Dozens of faithful and…

Inter-Orthodox developments continued this month regarding the Archdiocese of Ohrid, which was restored to eucharistic communion by the Ecumenical Patriarchate last year, and subsequently recognized as a canonical Autocephalous Church by other Orthodox Churches, all in the wake of the historic decision by the Mother Church’s Sacred and Holy Synod. Nevertheless, a standing question mark…

The Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Church of Nova Justiniana & All Cyprus on Thursday elected Archimandrite Tychicos Vryonis as the new Metropolitan of Paphos. The newly elected Metropolitan had received a hair above 50 percent of the vote in a lay election last week of hierarch candidates for the vacant throne of Paphos.  

The clergy and faithful in the southwest Greece prefecture of Ilia today bid a final farewell to reposed Elder Metropolitan Germanos, the shepherd of the specific Metropolis of Ilia, in the Peloponnese province, for 41 years, until his retirement last August. The body of the beloved hierarch lay in state at the Metropolitan Cathedral of…