On the 19th day of January 2023 Fr Christophoros Krikelis Archimandrite of the Ecumenical Throne Chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia On the feast day today of St Makarios the Great, we take this opportunity, on behalf of all the faithful of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia, to wholeheartedly wish our Chief Shepherd…

The 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…

The newly enthroned Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus, His Beatitude Georgios III, this week received the president of the DISY political party, Averof Neofytou, at the Archdiocese Palace in Nicosia. The latter congratulated His Beatitude on his election and enthronement, while expressing his appreciation, as he said, over the Archbishop’s stated priorities of…

The Holy Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Theotokos and St. Anthony the Great in Bucharest commemorated the feast day of the saint on Tuesday, with numerous faithful arriving at the cathedral’s courtyard to venerate the Holy Relics of St. Anthony. The con-celebratory Divine Liturgy was officiated by the Romanian Patriarchate’s Bishop of Dacia Felix,…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, on Tuesday received the United Kingdom’s special envoy for the western Balkans, Lord Stuart Peach, at the Patriarchate seat in Belgrade. Both sides agreed over the need to strengthen dialogue over significant issues, both at the international level and in the Balkans. On his part, Lord Peach particularly…

The Moscow Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Anthony, on Tuesday addressed, via video-link, a UN Security Council meeting convened to focus on the situation in the Ukraine. Metropolitan Anthony, who is the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department of External Church Relations, described to UN delegates what he claimed was the political repression exercised…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, emphasized the strong spiritual and canonical bonds linking the Mother Church with northern Greece, in receiving a large delegation regional and municipal office-holders from across central Macedonia this week, headed by the Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis, His Eminence Barnabas.

The Church today venerates the memory of Athanasius the Great and Cyril, Patriarchs of Alexandria.

Balamand, January 16, 2023. His Beatitude Patriarch John X, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, received His Excellency Walid Al-Bukhari, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Lebanon, at the Patriarchal Headquarters in Balamand. The visit was intended to exchange greetings and discuss the general conditions in the Lebanese and regional…