On the occasion of the upcoming great feast day of Christmas, the Holy Eparchial Synod of the Church of Crete has issued an encyclical, which was read out on Sunday in all parishes on the large island during the Divine Liturgy. The encyclical condemns all phenomena of hate, evil and sin, while also citing instances…

A majority of votes cast on Sunday by eligible voters in the election process to pick a trio of Church of Cyprus hierarchs, who will then stand for the vacant Archbishop’s throne, went to the Metropolitan of Limassol, His Grace Athanasios, who reached 35.68 percent. The Metropolitan of Paphos, His Grace Georgios, was second with…

  The Church today venerates the memory of Aglaia, the Righteous of Rome. Today is also the feast day of Boniface, the Merciful of Tarsus.

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Several parishes of the Archdiocese, St. Cyprian’s Primary Academy, as well as a number of our community food banks and institutions of mercy, have received a combined total of more than $250,000 (USD) in the form of charitable grants from the National Philanthropic Trust, the MELNIK Foundation, and the Styliades Hellenic Orthodox Foundation. While some…

On Sunday, December 18, 2022, the 2nd Annual Archdiocesan Christmas Concert sponsored by Christos Lazari Foundation was hosted at the Archdiocesan Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Divine Wisdom. Nearly 350 individuals attended the Christmas Carols Concert with the participation of four choirs: The Archdiocesan School of Byzantine Music Choir, directed by: The Rev. Protopresbyter Joseph…

With the Blessings of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, His Grace Bishop Bartholomew of Charioupolis celebrated Matins and the Divine Liturgy from the Holy Church of The Holy Trinity in Hobart, Tasmania. vema.com.au

The feast day of Saint Eleftherios, Bishop of Illyria, was celebrated on Thursday, 15 December 2022, at a dedicated cathedral in central Athens. The Pemptousia television platform was on hand for the festive services. The feast day of St. Eleftherios was also celebrated with reverent ecclesiastical rites in the central Albanian city of Vlore, where…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, on Saturday, 17 December 2022, officiated at the service of Vespers of the Sunday before the Nativity of Christ, at the venerable Patriarchale Church of Saint George, Phanar.  vema.com.au