The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi, last week had the opportunity to share his spiritual experience, monastic life and ministry at the side of 20th century Mount Athos saints, speaking at the St. Eleftherios Cathedral of Acharnon, in central Athens. The Elder Ephraim, accompanied by Vatopedi Elders,…

The Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Anthony, who is the Russian Church’s chairman of the department of external ecclesiastical relations, this week received the Georgian Orthodox Church’s Metropolitan of Akhalkalaki, Kumurdo & Kars, His Eminence Nikoloz, who is responsible for the Georgian Orthodox parishes of South America, in Moscow. Both sides discussed relations between the…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Tuesday received the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa’s Metropolitan of Zambia, His Eminence Ioannis, as well as the Church of Greece’s Metropolitans of Ioannina and Fthiotida, their Eminences Maximos and Simeon, respectively. His Eminence presented the Ecumenical Patriarch with artwork depicting the Theotokos,…

The charter-enforced procedure to elect a new Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus has commenced and will conclude on Dec. 18, with the declaration of a successor for reposed Archbishop Chrysostomos II, who passed away earlier this month at the age of 81. Based on an encyclical issued by the Locum Tenens of the…

The Church today venerates the memory of Matthew the Apostle & Evangelist.

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The memory of St. Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessaloniki, was venerated on Monday – the feast day of the saint – at the Holy Metropolis of Kastoria, with the resident Metropolitan, His Eminence Metropolitan Kallinikos, officiating at a Divine Liturgy at the Chapel of the Archangels. The Congregation of faithful included students of a nearby…

On Monday, 21 November 2022, the Feast Day of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple, at the celebrating Holy Cathedral of Panagia of Pera, a Patriarchal and Synodical Divine Liturgy will take place, officiated by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The Ecumenical Patriarch will conduct the ordination to the deaconate of Mr. Konstantinos…

On November 15, 2022, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros welcomed Mr. Michalis Stavrianoudakis, Secretary General of Interior and Organization for the Hellenic Republic, to the Archdiocese. Director of the Office of the Minister of the Interior Mr. Theodosis Athanasas and Consul of Greece to New York Mr. Dimitrios Papageorgiou attended the meeting, as well. goarch.org