Archiepiscopal Encyclical on the New Year January 1, 2023 Unto the Most Reverend and Right Reverend Hierarchs, Pious Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, Presidents and Members of Parish Councils, Honorable Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Members of Leadership 100, the Day and Afternoon Schools, Philoptochos Societies, the Youth, Greek Orthodox Organizations, and the…

The splendid ecclesiastical calendar of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi for 2023 is now available. The 2023 Vatopedi calendar showcases the ecclesiastical frescoes found in the catholicos, or main cathedral, of the venerable Mount Athos monastery. The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All-Holiness Bartholomew I, has welcomed the edition, while the foreword is…

The Serbian Patriarchate’s historic Visoki Decani monastery in Kosovo and Metohija this week referred to insolence on the part of the Kosovo Albanian administration in the province towards the Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije. In an announcement, the administration of the monastery also decried the “loud silence”, as it emphatically stated, of international representatives…

Members of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod, under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, this week issued a decision by which the Moscow Patriarchate considers a recent decision by the Alexandria Patriarchate to defrock the Metropolitan of Klin Leonid as “uncanonical”. The latter hierarch has been appointed as Exarch of Africa by the…

An increasingly belligerent and bellicose Erdogan regime in Turkey again threatened Greece this week if the latter exercises its international legal rights regarding an extension of territorial waters. This time around it was Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu who again threatened with aggression in case Athens extends territorial waters around the large island of Crete….

The Church today venerates the memory of Venerable Theodora of Caesarea. Today is also the feast day of Anysia, the Virgin-martyr of Thessaloniki.

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The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, issued his best wishes for the New Year, in a videotaped message towards Romanian Orthodox faithful around the world. The Patriarchate of Romania has recorded numerous initiatives and actions over the years for expatriate Romanians, aimed at keeping the faithful connected with their paternal and spiritual roots,…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, on Wednesday attended a festive event held at the Patriarchal residence in Belgrade by the Sima Igoumanov Foundation, during which 13 scholarships were awarded to pupils and university students of large-member families. Speaking during the event, the Patriarch of Serbia thanked Foundation benefactors Miliovan and Dragan Popović, for…