With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, the Orthodox Youth Girls Groups (Girl’s Omathes) of the Greek Orthodox Christian Society of Sydney participated in their annual 5-day Summer Spiritual Camp. The camp site was visited on Thursday, 12 January 2023, by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, accompanied also by the Chancellor…

On January 10, 2023 at the suggestion of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate elevated His Grace Bishop Dimitrios of Xanthos to the rank of Metropolitan and, as such, the see of Xanthos to the rank of Metropolis in his person. Upon the news of the elevation…

The award-winning film “Man of God”, based on the life, works and tribulations of St. Nektarios of Aegina, is now available on all international video on-demand streaming platforms, where viewers around the world can now watch movie, which, among others, set cinema ticket sales records in Greece and Cyprus. A list of the relevant platforms…

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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 in the catholicos, or main cathedral, of the venerable Mount Athos monastery.

The second great conference of the International Orthodox Theological Association was successfully held in the central port city of Volos this month, with the emphasis at this year’s assembly being missionary work and the presence of Orthodoxy in the modern world. The international conference commenced with a con-celebratory Vesper officiated by the resident Metropolitan of…

The Metropolitan of Skopje and Archbishop of Ohrid, His Beatitude Stefan, this week received in Skopje the Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Anthony. The Russian Church hierarch serves as the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations. The Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, among others, conveyed the warmest wishes of the Patriarch of Moscow…

Today marks the dour 52nd anniversary of a Turkish constitutional court decision to abolish tertiary non-state educational institutions in the predominately Muslim country, essentially a pretext to close the Theological School of Halki, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople’s primary seminary. Reopening the school of theology on the eponymous Sea of Marmara Island remains among the…

The Church today venerates the memory of Tatiana the Martyr of Rome.