Today marks the 93rd birthday of the Archbishop of Durres, Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios. His Beatitude was born on Nov. 4, 1929, in Piraeus, Greece. The hierarch arrived in the Adriatic country in 1991 as part of a herculean effort by the Ecumenical Patriarchate to revive Orthodoxy there after more than four…

The Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, His Beatitude Theophilos III, on Thursday received the visiting Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Anthony, who is the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), at the Patriarchate. The Russian Church hierarch is on an official visit to the Holy…

The Holy Cincture of the Theotokos, the All-Holy Virgin Mary, will be conveyed tomorrow, Saturday, from the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi to the St. Nicholas Cathedral of Piraeus. The Holy Cincture will arrive at Greece’s largest port city, located in the greater Athens area, where it will be solemnly received by the resident…

The Church today venerates the memory of George of Drama, a 20th century saint.

In the capital of the Kingdom of Bahrain, during the Interfaith Meeting, which is organised by the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain, in collaboration with the Muslim Council of Elders, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew spoke on Thursday, November 3. The Patriarch emphasised in his speech that the deliberate distortion…

On Thursday, 3 November 2022, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia visited the Consulate General of Greece in Sydney, responding to last month’s visit of the new Consul General, Mr. Yannis Mallikourtis, to the headquarters of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia. His Eminence wished Mr. Mallikourtis good strength in the responsible tasks assigned to him,…

For the Orthodox Christians, the feast days of our Churches are always special. This year, however, for the Parish of Saint Demetrios in Salisbury, Adelaide, the feast day’s celebrations had an even more special festive character, as we were honoured with the presence of a group of Evzones, the Presidential Guard of the Hellenic Republic,…

With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, in the series of events that the Holy Archdiocese of Australia organises for the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe, an event will be held on Sunday, November 13, 2022, at 6:00 p.m., at the Parish of St Panteleimon, Glenelg North, on the theme…

The Department of Religious Education (DRE) is pleased to announce the release of the 2023 St. John Chrysostom Oratorical Festival Topic Tips & Resources. Formerly known as ‘Topic Tips’ just for the youth participants, this year, the DRE has expanded it to ‘Topic Tips & Resources’ for participants, parents, mentors, GOYA advisors, and religious educators….