On Thursday, 24 November 2022 the Five Loaves Initiative in the District of Melbourne prepared hot meals for the vulnerable from the commercial kitchen at the Greek Orthodox Church of Saints Constantine and Helen in South Yarra. With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, and with…

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A spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church this comment a recent and very high-profile decision by the Holy Synod of the Alexandria Patriarchate to cease the commemoration of Russian Patriarch Kirill’s name in all liturgies. In an interview, spokesman Vladimir Legoida claimed that the decision by the Sacred and Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of…

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Beatitude Theodoros II, on Monday bestowed the Order of St. Sabbas the Sanctified to the outgoing ambassador of Greece in Egypt, Nikolaos Garilidis, for his services and valuable understanding of issues affecting the ancient Patriarchate.  

Members of the Holy Synod of the Church of Cyprus met on Monday to discuss issues related to an upcoming electoral process to select a trio of eligible hierarchs of the Church who have declared their intent to succeed reposed Archbishop of Cyprus Chrysostomos II on the vacant throne. Among others, a proposal to change…

Serbian-American director and writer Yelena Popovic spoke to the Romanian-language ecclesiastical site Basilica this week about the award-winning film “Man of God”, which recounts the life, works and tribulations overcome by 20th century St. Nektarios of Aegina. The inspirational film, which posted record ticket sales in Greece and Cyprus, and has been shown in several…

A wide-ranging interview with the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s Metropolitan of Glyfada, Voula & Vouliagmeni, His Eminence Antonios, will be posted this week on the pages of Pemptousia television. His Eminence referred to the constant desire that the faithful must have in order to truly experience Christ and to celebrate a spiritual Christmas. He…

The Church today venerates the memory of Paramon and his 370 Companion Martyrs in Bithynia. Today is also the feast day of New Martyr Archimandrite Philoumenos, of Jacob’s Well.

During the annual assembly of the superiors of all monasteries within the Archdiocese of Bucharest, which took place last Thursday at the Patriarchal Palace, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel shared his thoughts on prayer, hesychasm, and the antidote to secularisation. The most concise and intense prayer “The first duty of a monk or nun is to…