Pemptousia online platform has introduced an improved application called ‘Vimatarissa’, named after the patronal icon of the Mother of God, preserved at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi. With the Vimatarissa app, users can access the Internet and read the ‘Words of Life’ segment, by the Fathers and Saints of the Orthodox Church, on…

The Byzantine choir Tropos, following an invitation and with the blessing of His Grace Bishop Parthenios, the Abbot of the Holy Monastery of St. John the Forerunner, arrived at the Archdiocese of Ohrid’s historic monastery at Bigorski. The choristers, under the direction of Konstantinos Angelidis, sang hymns during a con-celebratory Vespers on Sunday afternoon at…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, this week commemorates the second anniversary of His Enthronement as the Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church. His Holiness was elected by the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Church on Feb. 18, 2021, after the repose in the Lord of Patriarch Irinej. He was enthroned the…

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Beatitude Theodoros II, was honored at a reception on Friday evening in Nairobi hosted by the Egyptian ambassador to Kenya, as the Shepherd of the Alexandria Patriarchate wound down a week-long pastoral visit to the country. During the reception, held at the ambassador’s official residence,…

The All-Reverend Archimandrites Tychikos Vryonis and Ioannis Ioannou, along with the Bishop of Amathountos, His Grace Nikolaos, emerged as the trio of candidates in a lay election on Sunday for the new Metropolitan of Paphos. Hierarch members of Church of Cyprus’ Holy Synod will now decide the new Metropolitan from among the trio of candidates….

Today marks Cheesefare Monday, with the commencement of Great Lent ahead of Pascha, Holy Easter, for 2023, now one week away. The Church today commemorates Leo, Bishop of Catania. Α day earlier, the memory of Philothea the Righteous Martyr of Athens, was solemnly commemorated in a splendorous manner in the same-name district of the Greek…

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On Thursday morning, the patriarchal delegation, accompanied by Father Pavlus Orduluoğlu and the head of the Antioch Association, Mr. Fadi Hurigil, went to the town of Samandağ, where they were received by the parish priests, Dr. Dimyan yakupoğlu and Trifon Yumurta, and the head of the association, Dimyan Emektaş. The patriarchal delegation visited the churches…