On Monday, December 27, 2022/January 9, 2023, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the Holy First Martyr and Archdeacon Stephen in the Holy Monastery named after him, at the place of his stoning in Gethsemane, at the beginning of the Brook of Cedars. During this holiday, the Church remembers the narrative of the Acts (Acts…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America is currently participating in the regularly scheduled session of the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Holy and Sacred Synod for the month of January (10-12). Upon the conclusion of this synodal session — under the chairmanship of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew — the very first meeting of the Mixed Commission on…

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Vatopedi publications has unveiled a new tome of homilies and addresses by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim. The work comprises an Athonite testimony of man’s course towards the light of God.

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, during his sermon on Sunday, in the After-feast of the Theophany, called on the faithful to seek change through repentance. His Beatitude noted, “…that the Gospel after the Baptism of the Lord portrays the commencement of the Savior’s actions in the Galilee of Nations… Christ began his…

The Bishop of Charioupolis, His Grace Bartholomew, with the blessing of the Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, performed the annual Sanctification of the Waters ceremony in Hobart, the capital of the large island of Tasmania, on the occasion of Friday’s Theophany of Our Lord and Savior, the great feast day also known as the…

On the occasion of the great feast of the Nativity on Saturday, as based on the Julian calendar, the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy & Monastery of Vatopedi, along with Vatopedi Elders and pilgrims from around the world, assembled in the Mount Athos monastery’s synodal hall for the festal kerasma. The Elder…

Archbishop Georgios was enthroned as the 76th Primate of the Church of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus on Sunday afternoon, in a ceremony at the Cathedral of the Apostle Barnabas in Nicosia. Church bells rang out joyously as the elected Archbishop of Cyprus arrived to the cathedral. The newly enthroned Archbishop said he accepts the…

Today marks the After-feast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Today is also the feast day of Eustratios the Wonderworker.