After raising over $1.1 million for the Greek Fires Relief Fund since its launch in August 2021, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOARCH) is pleased to announce that, over the course of the past year, the funds raised have been employed for relief efforts aiding individuals, businesses, and health care facilities affected by the…

Your Grace, Beloved Clergy, Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Δόξα τῷ Θεῷ πάντων ἕνεκεν! On this eve of the feast of the holy patron of this God-protected Metropolis of New Jersey, as your Patriarchal Vicar, I greet you with the final words of the Saint of “Golden Speech.” These words were the Holy Chrysostom’s…

Today marks the 110th anniversary of the eastern Aegean Island of Chios’s liberation from Ottoman rule. A con-celebratory Vespers was officiated on Thursday at the Metropolitan Cathedral dedicated to the saints of victory, Holy Martyrs Menas, Victoras and Vikentios, and officiated by the visiting Metropolitan of Didimoticho, Orestiada and Soufli, His Eminence Damaskinos, and co-officiated…

Member hierarchs of the Archdiocese of America’s Holy Eparchial Synod, chaired by the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, on Thursday convened a special session via videoconference. Archbishop Elpidophoros first briefed members of the Holy Eparchial Synod over a decision of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to establish a joint commission…

The wonder-working Holy Cincture of the Theotokos, the All-Holy Virgin Mary, was solemnly conveyed on Friday morning to Greece’s shipping and island policy ministry, in the port of Piraeus. The matronal Holy Relic of the Virgin Mary’s earthly existence was conveyed for veneration to the ministry by the resident Metropolitan of Piraeus, His Eminence Seraphim,…

  The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, on Thursday received the visiting Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Anthony, who is also the Moscow Patriarchate’s chairman of the Department of External Church Relations. The Serbian Church’s Bishop of Baska, His Grace Irinej, also attended the meeting at the Archdiocese in Belgrade. The two sides discussed…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Thursday afternoon officiated at the Great Vesper, held at the celebrating St. Menas Cathedral of Ypsimathia in the Bosporus metropolis, on the eve of the saint’s feast day. Afterwards, His All Holiness addressed congregants and cited the illuminating example of St. Menas.   photos…

The Church today venerates the memory of Menas of Egypt. Today is also the feast day of Victor of Damascus and St. Stephanie, as well as the Martyr Vincent of Spain.

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