Archbishop Receives Vicar of Vicariate for Palestinian & Jordanian Orthodox Communities in America His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros received the Reverend Protopresbyter George Jweinat, Archepiscopal Vicar of the Vicariate for the Palestinian and Jordanian Christian Orthodox Communities in America, for an audience at the Archdiocese this morning, November 15, 2022. goarch.org  

The Athens University’s School of Theology this week welcomed freshmen for the new academic year. A modest welcoming ceremony, symbolically called the “Rose Reception”, was dedicated to a condemnation of domestic violence. Among others, the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Prof. Meletios-Athanassios Dimopoulos, along with a representative of the Archbishop of…

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Vatopedi Publications has unveiled the Abridged Anastasimatarion by Petros Peloponnisios, the third scholarly paper in the series Vatopedi Musical Studies, edited and presented by choir director and Byzantine musicologist Georgios Konstantinou. Anastasimatarion is the service book of the Orthodox Church, containing the Ana-STA-sima, or Resurrectional hymns of the vesper, the Sunday matins, and certain other…

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 Kallinikos, officiating at a Divine Liturgy at the Chapel of the Archangels. Congregants included pupils of a nearby public primary school, with…

The Patriarchate of Romania’s ecclesiastical art and preservation department, in cooperation with the public secretariat for worship, is organizing a 9th international conference on the subject of “Hesychastic Light in Ecclesiastical Art: The Glory of Christ on Mt. Tabor, and the Halo of the Saints.” The conference commenced on Monday at the Patriarch Theoktistos Hall…

In the Holy Land, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Theophilos III, on Sunday paid a pastoral visit to the Arabic-speaking Greek Orthodox Community in the city of Beit Jala. His Beatitude first visited the building belonging to the Hegoumen, or Abbot of the Monastery, which in the past was used as a primary school,…

The locum tenens of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus, Metropolitan Georgios of Paphos, this week announced that the election of a new Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and Cyprus will be held on Sunday, Dec. 18. Based on the new charter of the Church of Cyprus, which was approved and enacted in 2010, three eligible hierarchs…

The Church today venerates the memory of Gurias, Samonas, and Avivos, Martyrs and Confessors of Edessa, in ancient Syria. Today also marks the beginning of the Nativity Fast, one of four main fast periods throughout the ecclesiastical year. The fast concludes on Dec. 24.