Summary: Arsenios’ mother, Evlogia, sees her boy’s spiritual inclination, and strengthens his faith with prayers and kind words. She talks to him about humility and how he must fight evil thoughts. 12-year-old Arsenios chooses not to go to high school, but to learn how to become a good carpenter and help his family. Temptation comes…

+ B A R T H O L O M E W By God’s Mercy, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch To the Plenitude of the Church: May God’s Grace and Peace be with you! We offer a hymn of thanks to the almighty, all-seeing, and benevolent God in Trinity, who vouchsafed that His…

The sessions of the Holy Eparchial Synod of the Archdiocese of Australia were concluded, having convened in an extraordinary meeting yesterday, 22 May, and today, 23 May 2025, under the presidency of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia. Following the opening prayer, the Minutes of the previous session were ratified, and then the Holy Synod…

With a moving address filled with gratitude and hope, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew marked the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Zappeion Girls’ School on Wednesday, 21 May 2025, praising its enduring contribution to education and Hellenism in Constantinople. The Patriarch opened his speech with the Paschal greeting “Christ is Risen!” and referred…

His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, on the occasion of his visit to the celebrating Parish of Saints Constantine and Helen in Newtown, Sydney, and his officiating at the Great Vespers, also performed the Sanctification Service of the Inauguration of the renovated soup kitchen dining hall of the Parish, known to the wider public as…

On Tuesday, May 7th/20th, 2025, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the Sign of the Cross that appeared in the heavens. On this feast, the whole Church—especially that of Jerusalem—commemorates that on the 7th of May in the year 351, a luminous and radiant Cross, brighter than the rays of the sun, appeared stretching from…

His Eminence Metropolitan Job Getcha of Pisidia (Ecumenical Patriarchate) visited the Library of the Holy Synod last Friday, where he was guided by Archimandrite Policarp Chițulescu, the institution’s director. The Metropolitan was in Bucharest from May 13 to 17, 2025, to participate in the International Theology Symposium titled “The First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (325):…

The Holy Eparchial Synod of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia will convene in an extraordinary session on 22 and 23 May 2025, under the presidency of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia. During the work of the Synod, the issues on the Agenda will be examined, including the compilation of the List of Candidates for…

On 18 May 2025, His Eminence Metropolitan Ioannis of Zambia and Mozambique organised an event at his residence in Lusaka to commemorate the genocide of the Pontian Greeks of Asia Minor. Zambians, Greeks, and Cypriots participated to commemorate this day of memory. Metropolitan Ioannis celebrated this day following the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of…