The Patriarch of Serbia, His Beatitude Porfirije, on Thursday inaugurated an international conference commemorating the centennial of the creation of the Patriarchate of Serbia. The conference opened at the Belgrade School of Theology. The Primate of the Serbian Church underlined, in his address, that despite repeated challenges, the Patriarchate and the Church, in general, remains…

The Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Theophilos III, on Friday received the Metropolitan of Bozra, His Eminence Timotheos, the Exarch of the All-Holy Sepulcher on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus.

The feast day of Eleutherios, Bishop Illyria, was celebrated on Thursday at a dedicated cathedral in central Athens. The Pemptousia television platform was on hand for the solemn services. The feast day of St. Eleutherios was also celebrated with reverent ecclesiastical rite in the central Albanian city of Vlore, where the local Orthodox community continues…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Thursday inaugurated a 2nd annual international scientific conference focusing on the environment, entitled “Family and the Environment: Repercussions of Climate Change on the Family.” The conference is being held at the Patriarchal Great School of the Nation in the Bosporus metropolis. In a related…

The Church today commemorates the memory of Haggai the Prophet. Today is also the feast day of Modestos, Archbishop of Jerusalem.

The Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi has unveiled the series “Vatopedi Psaltic Tradition: Hymns of Christmas”, in a commemorative edition by the chorus of Vatopedi fathers, and on the occasion of the 170 years since the repose in the Lord of Matthew of Vatopedi, a noted musician, calligrapher, codifier and teacher of the Byzantine…

  Thirty thousand prayer books were distributed, with the blessing of the Church of Romania’s Metropolitan of Timisoara, His Eminence Ioan, to pupils in the local Archdiocese. On the occasion of the ongoing Nativity fast, clergy of the Church, assisted by theologians assigned to secondary schools, distributed the prayer books and spoke to the pupils…

The Metropolitan of Drama, His Eminence Dorotheos, spoke to the Pemptousia FM online radio this week, a month after his enthronement. In a wide-ranging interview, His Eminence referred to the northern city of Drama, an inaugural clerical synaxis, or assembly, as well as the preparation by the faithful ahead of the great feast day of…

The Archbishop of Durres, Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastatios, this week received the visiting Greek Deputy Minister for Infrastructure and Transports, Michalis Papadopoulos, who arrived in the Adriatic country to co-inaugurate a two-day bilateral conference on road safety.