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 Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, attended the festal Divine Liturgy at the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Savvas in Belgrade on Sunday, along with numerous faithful in the Serbian capital, with whom the Primate exchanged best wishes for the new year.

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, on Sunday officially declared 2023 as the Solemn Year of Pastoral Care of the Elderly and a Commemorative Year of Hymnographers and Church Chanters in the Romanian Patriarchate. His Beatitude addressed the faithful at the Patriarchal Metropolitan Cathedral of Bucharest.

The first day of 2023 was celebrated with a Doxology service at the Church of the Annunciation in Alexandria, Egypt, in the presence of the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Beatitude Theodoros II, and hierarchs of the venerable Patriarchate. The con-celebratory Divine Liturgy was officiated by the Metropolitan of Nafkratias and…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew, on Sunday expressed a hope for a peaceful New Year, during the traditional pastoral address in the Throne Room of the Patriarchal residence in Constantinople. The New Year’s address came after the Primate of the Mother Church officiated at the con-celebratory Divine Liturgy at the Phanar-district’s…

The Church today commemorates the Forefeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Today is also the feast day of our venerable and God-bearing father Seraphim of Sarov, as well as Sylvester, Bishop of Rome. The Pemptousia platform today has posted an address by the Metropolitan of Veria, Naoussa and Kampania, His…

On Sunday, 1 January 2023, in the chapel of the Theological School of Halki, on the feast day of the circumcision of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and Saint Basil the Great, a festive Matins and Divine Liturgy took place, presided over by the Abbot of the Holy Monastery of the Holy Trinity, His…

With splendour and religious devotion, New Year’s Day, the Despotic Feast of the Circumcision of the Lord and the Commemoration of St. Basil the Great, were celebrated in the Archdiocesan District of Northcote. The centre of the feast day celebrations was at the Holy Church of Saint Vasilios in the suburb of Brunswick, Melbourne, where…

On the last day of the year of 2022, and on the eve of the feast of Saint Basil the Great, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia wishing to share the day with our valuable elderly citizens, made a special visit to the residents at the Saint Basil’s Aged Care Facility in the Sydney suburb…