Monday’s great matronal feast day of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple was reverently celebrated by the Church of Crete’s Metropolis of Kydonia, as the Theotokos, the All-Holy Virgin Mary, is the patroness and protector of the Cretan port city of Hania, the capital of the Metropolis. The Metropolitan of Kissamos & Selinos,…

With the blessing of the Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, a historic decision was taken on Monday by members of the Orthodox community of St. Spyridon of Kingsford, Sydney. Specifically, some 85 percent of voting community members approved a proposal to enter into the full spiritual and administrative jurisdiction of the Holy Archdiocese of…

The Archbishop of Thyateira & Great Britain, His Eminence Nikitas, this week received Greece’s visiting minister of education and religious affairs, Niki Kerameos, at the Holy Archdiocese in London. The Greek minister arrived in the British capital to promote bilateral cooperation in the higher education sector.

The Ecumenical Patriarch on Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on the occasion of Monday’s great feast of the Entrance of the Most Holy Theotokos to the Temple, officiated at the Divine Liturgy at the Church of the Archdiocese of Constantinople, in the Stavrodromi parish of the ancient Bosporus metropolis. Several Metropolitans of the Patriarchal…

Six hierarchs of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Cyprus are the official candidates to succeed reposed Archbishop Chrysostomos II on the Throne of the Church. The beloved Archbishop reposed in the Lord earlier this month at the age of 81. Specifically, the candidates – all eligible under the 2010 charter of the Church of Cyprus…

The Church today venerates the memory of Archippus the Apostle, Philemon the Apostle & his wife, Apphia, and Onesimos the Disciple of Paul.

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On Monday morning, 21 November 2022, the main day of the Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple, His Grace Bishop Kyriakos of Sozopolis visited and liturgised at the celebrating Greek Orthodox Church in the suburb of North Balwyn of Melbourne. In a crowded church, His Grace Bishop Kyriakos spoke appropriately about…

A milestone was reached on the 21st of November 2022 for the large and dynamic Greek community in the Sydney suburb of Kingsford. And this, because with the grace of our Virgin Mary on the actual feast-day of the Presentation of the Theotokos to the Temple, and with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios…