With due splendour, the great feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple was celebrated in the Archdiocesan District of Northcote, centred at the celebratory Holy Church of The Presentation Of Our Lord in the Coburg suburb of Melbourne. Representing His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, His Grace Bishop Evmenios of Kerasounta, Archiepiscopal…

My Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, What a joy to be with all of you again! I am delighted to be with Leadership One Hundred, for as many reasons as there are members of this truly stellar organization. Yesterday was the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple – Ὑπαπαντή, in…

​My Dear Friends, ​Invocation: ​Let us pray to the Lord. Kyrie Eleison. O Lord Jesus Christ our God, You have promised that when “two or three” are gathered together in Your Holy Name, there You will be in the midst of them. We come before You today as your servants and stewards of the Household…

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The memory of the patron saint of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece, St. Photios, Patriarch of Constantinople, will be celebrated on Monday with an archieratical Divine Liturgy at the Holy Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotokos, also known as the Monastery of Petraki. The latter is located in the…

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel conveyed his condolences to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, over the repose in the Lord of the Elder Metropolitan of Pergamos Ioannis. The Patriarch of All Romania referred to the late Elder Metropolitan Ioannis as a wise hierarch, with a particularly prolific…

The 12th Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States convened in Los Angeles, California, earlier this week. Thirty hierarchs of Canonical Orthodox Churches in the United States participated in the meeting, chaired by Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros. Among others, an executive committee met last weekend to confirm the meeting…

A funeral service was held on Friday for the second aviator of a Hellenic Air Force F-4 “Phantom II” that crashed into the Ionian Sea on Monday. The exodios funeral service for Hellenic Air Force Capt. Efstathios Tsitlakidis was held in his home town of Graniti, in the northern prefecture of Drama. Greece’s political and…

The Church today commemorates the feast day of Symeon the God-Receiver and Anna the Prophetess, whose memory is annually venerated a day after the Great Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord and Savior in the Temple.