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A delegation of Vatopedi Elders, led by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Saturday will Translate an exact replica of the Cross of Sts. Constantine and Helen to a dedicated cathedral in the northwest Greece city of Kozani. The Elder Ephraim will also attend an awards…

The inauguration of the first cathedral dedicated to the newly canonized saint of the Orthodox Church, St. Gerasimos the Hymnographer, a 20th century monk and Athonite Elder, will be held on Sunday at the Skete of St. Anne, the Mother of the Most Holy Theotokos, where the newest saith of the Church toiled in ascetism….

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, on the occasion of the feast day of St. Sava, the first Archbishop and Teacher of the Serbs, as based on the Julian calendar, officiated at the Divine Liturgy on Friday at the Serbian Club in Glendale, New York. The Primate of the Serbian Patriarchate arrived in the…

The spokesman for the Patriarchate of Romania, Vasile Banesku, in a wide-ranging press interview this week, again reiterated the Church’s position that a human’s foremost right is birth, a right he said eclipses the argument of self-determination and the right to choose, in referring to the sensitive issue of abortion. The spokesman added “…the Church…

The Church today commemorates the Removal of the Relics of St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople. On the occasion, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, officiated at a Divine Liturgy on Thursday at the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George, the eve of the Translation of the Holy Relics. Based on millennia-old…

His Eminence Metropolitan Kyrillos of Imbros and Tenedos, on the occasion of the 9-days since the falling asleep in the Lord of Zacharo Anastasiadou (nee Archontonis), the sister of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, blessed the Kollyva and conducted the trisagion memorial service at her grave, at the Cemetery of the village of Agioi Theodoroi…

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The Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Elder Metropolitan of Halkidona, His Eminence Emmanuel, paid a pilgrimage this week to the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi. In addressing the assembled Vatopedi Elders in a monastic synaxis, the hierarch referred to the concept of Christian life, the significance of monasticism in the life of the Church and the mission…