The announcement of the Ecumenical Patriarchate regarding the passing away of the late Metropolitan Athenagoras of Bizye, states the following: It is announced with great sorrow that the ever-memorable Metropolitan of Bizye, Athenagoras, fell asleep in the Lord on Tuesday, 1 July 2025. The details of the funeral rites for the ever-memorable hierarch are as…

A large number of faithful gathered at the Church of the Resurrection to pay their final respects to the late Metropolitan Dimitrios of Gjirokaster, who fell asleep in the Lord on 29 July 2025. The Funeral Service was led by His Beatitude Archbishop Ioannis of Albania, with co-celebrants including Their Eminences Metropolitans Antonios of Elbasan,…

Metropolitan Athenagoras of Bizye, Hierarch of the Ecumenical Throne, passed away at the age of 84. Georgios Anastasiades, born in Chicago in 1941, graduated from the Theological School of the University of Athens in 1965 and received a postgraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1973. He was ordained a Deacon in 1965 and…

“I go with Paschal thoughts to the Lower Land of Moldavia,” declared the Very Rev. Archimandrite Teofil Anăstăsoaie, newly elected Assistant Bishop of the Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău, following his election by the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church on Wednesday. The newly elected bishop will bear the title His Grace Assistant Bishop…

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church has elected the Very Rev. Archimandrite Teofil Anăstăsoaie, the Romanian Patriarchate’s Representative to the Holy Places, as Assistant Bishop of the Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău. Archimandrite Teofil has served as the Romanian Patriarchate’s liaison to the Patriarchate of Jerusalem and as Superior of the Romanian Settlements…

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church held its working session in the “Patriarch Teoctist” Aula Magna of the Patriarchal Palace on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 1–2, 2025, under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel. The Holy Synod adopted several decisions related to pastoral and missionary activity, including: The canonization of 16 women…

The Romanian Patriarchate will canonize 16 female saints in 2026, as part of the Commemorative Year of Holy Women in the Church Calendar, according to announcements made by Patriarch Daniel on Monday evening during the working session of the Metropolitan Synod of the Metropolis of Muntenia and Dobruja. A similar number of saints—16—were proclaimed during…

On Saturday, 15th/28th June 2025, our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Theophilos III, gave a highly important and interesting interview to the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), regarding the pilgrimage, pastoral, reconciliatory, and peace-making mission of the Patriarchate from its inception and particularly since the days of the “Achtiname” treaty, agreed between the Holy…

On Monday, 17th/30th June 2025, His Beatitude was visited by the Head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem (MISSIA), Archimandrite Vassianos, accompanied by Archimandrite Nikon and the nun Seraphima. He invited His Beatitude to attend the upcoming Feast of the Nativity of the Forerunner at the Russian Monastery of the Nativity of the Forerunner…