The latest digital fellowship from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, will take place on Friday, beginning at 19.30 Athens time, or 17.30 GMT. An interpretation will be available in Romanian, English, French, Georgian. Arabic and Russian. The online synaxis, or assembly, is organized…

A second volume of a book on the life and trials of the Elder Joseph of Vatopedi has been issued by the Metropolis of Lvov, in cooperation with the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi and the International Institute of Athonite Legacy in Ukraine.

A delegation of the Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East continued inspections this week of parishes of the Patriarchate in Turkey’s Hatay province, amongst the hardest hit from the Feb. earthquakes. On Thursday, the delegation, led by their Graces, Auxiliary Bishops Constantine and Arsensios, officiated at a trisagion memorial service at the Greek Orthodox…

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Beatitude Theodoros II, on Friday celebrates his patronal name today while on a pastoral and apostolic tour of Kenya. The Primate of the second-in-rank Orthodox Patriarchate has recorded prolific missionary work throughout the African continent over the years, visiting practically every parish to bless the…

The Church today venerates the memory of Theodore of Tyre, the Great Martyr.

With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia and with the presence of His Grace Bishop Silouan of Sinope, the Central Philoptochos of the Archdiocesan District of Adelaide held a Family Fun Day at the Archiepiscopal Church of St Sophia on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son. Many amusements were set up for…

On Monday, 13 February 2023, with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, His Grace Bishop Evmenios of Kerasounta, Archiepiscopal Vicar of Northcote in Victoria, welcomed into the Orthodox Church, through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism, a young man who comes from the Islamic faith. The 28-year-old Ahmad Khodr, who after his baptism…

Westfield, New Jersey – On Saturday, February 11, 2023, the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Jersey, with the blessings of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, held an altar servers retreat at St. Luke Greek Orthodox Church in Broomall, PA. Fifty acolytes from the Delaware Valley region of the Metropolis gathered at St. Luke for…

On Monday, February 13th, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros met with the St. John Chrysostom Clergy Syndesmos of the Archdiocesan District at the Cathedral of St. Paul, Hempstead, NY. His Eminence spoke to all the clergy, thanking them for their ministry and wished them, as well as all parishioners of the Archdiocesan District, a blessed and…