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…
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.