The first day of 2023 was celebrated with a Doxology service at the Church of the Annunciation in Alexandria, Egypt, in the presence of the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Beatitude Theodoros II, and hierarchs of the venerable Patriarchate. The con-celebratory Divine Liturgy was officiated by the Metropolitan of Nafkratias and…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew, on Sunday expressed a hope for a peaceful New Year, during the traditional pastoral address in the Throne Room of the Patriarchal residence in Constantinople. The New Year’s address came after the Primate of the Mother Church officiated at the con-celebratory Divine Liturgy at the Phanar-district’s…

The Church today commemorates the Forefeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Today is also the feast day of our venerable and God-bearing father Seraphim of Sarov, as well as Sylvester, Bishop of Rome. The Pemptousia platform today has posted an address by the Metropolitan of Veria, Naoussa and Kampania, His…

On Sunday, 1 January 2023, in the chapel of the Theological School of Halki, on the feast day of the circumcision of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and Saint Basil the Great, a festive Matins and Divine Liturgy took place, presided over by the Abbot of the Holy Monastery of the Holy Trinity, His…

With splendour and religious devotion, New Year’s Day, the Despotic Feast of the Circumcision of the Lord and the Commemoration of St. Basil the Great, were celebrated in the Archdiocesan District of Northcote. The centre of the feast day celebrations was at the Holy Church of Saint Vasilios in the suburb of Brunswick, Melbourne, where…

On the last day of the year of 2022, and on the eve of the feast of Saint Basil the Great, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia wishing to share the day with our valuable elderly citizens, made a special visit to the residents at the Saint Basil’s Aged Care Facility in the Sydney suburb…

On Saturday, 31 December 2022, New Year’s Eve, the cutting of the annual Vasilopita of the Great Community of Stavrodromi took place in the hall of The Holy Trinity soup kitchen. The Vasilopita was blessed and cut by the Hierarchical Proistamenos, His Eminence Metropolitan Andreas of Saranta Ekklisies. The traditional coin, ‘flouri’ was found by…

His Eminence Archbishop Evgenios of Crete, a few hours before the end of 2022, announced the name of the new Protosyncellus of the Holy Archdiocese of Crete, in the Metropolitan Church of Saint Menas. After the election of His Grace Bishop Methodios Vernidakis to the office of the Bishop of Knossos, the current Abbot of…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, in his customary speech, in the Throne Room of the Patriarchal House, after the Divine Liturgy for the feast of the Circumcision of the Lord and the memory of Saint Basil the Great, during which he officiated on New Year’s morning at the Venerable Patriarchal Church at the Phanar, referred…