The Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Aghios Vlassios, His Eminence Ierotheos, this week visited students of a Byzantine hagiography school operated by the Parish of St. Paraskevi, located in the coastal town of Nafpaktos.

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Thursday was greeted with Christmas carols sung by a children’s choir from the parish of Inofyta, His Beatitude’s home town. Earlier, the Primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece received Greece’s Digital Governance Minister, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, at the Archdiocese of Athens. Previous discussions…

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrived on Thursday morning in the southern Albania coastal town of Himare, a predominately ethnic Greek district in the Adriatic country. In statements to an enthusiastic crowd of local residents, Mitsotakis said it was a great honor to be the first Greek prime minister to visit the historic district. Olympic…

Members of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Church of Cyprus will convene on Saturday, on the eve of the great feast day of Christmas, to elect a new Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus. Members of the Holy Synod will select a new Archbishop from among a trio of hierarchs that emerged from…

The Church today venerates the memory of Anastasia the Great Martyr. Thursday also marks the Forefeast of the Nativity of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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 at the venerable Mount Athos monastery.

An ancient tomb traditionally associated with Christ’s midwife is being excavated anew by archaeologists in the hills southwest of Jerusalem, the Israeli antiquities authority announced on Tuesday. The intricately decorated Jewish burial cave complex dates to around the first century, but it was later associated by local Christians with Salome, the midwife of Jesus, based…

Two children’s choirs performed traditional Christmas carols this week at the Holy Cathedral of St. Sophia, in the Bulgarian capital, the oldest church in the city, and with the blessing of the Patriarch of Bulgaria, His Holiness Neofyt. The Bishop of Belogradchik, His Grace Polycarp, later presented gifts to the young choristers.

The Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Theophilos III, issued a Patriarchal message for the coming great feast day of Christmas, noting, among others, that “…God came to earth to raise man to heaven. God in Christ assumed our human nature. He assumed man and made him unmistakably a sharer of His Divinity, a communicant of…