Amid a period when official Turkey persists in targeting Christianity in the country and even abroad, as recently seen with the opening of a mosque in far-off Japan with the name “Hagia Sophia”, the greatest of all Basilicas of eastern Christendom, Orthodoxy continues to flourish around the world. On Sunday, the Archbishop of Australia, His…

The Church today venerates the memory of Stephen the New, the confessor, who was martyred in defense of Orthodoxy during the iconoclasm in the 8th century.

On Sunday 20th November 2022, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain presided during Matins and celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of St. Nicholas and Xenophon in Leicester. Concelebrating with His Eminence was the Priest-in-charge of the Parish, the Reverend Oeconomos Antonios Stavrinou, the Reverend Presbyter Ioannis Provatas and the Reverend…

With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia and presided by His Grace Bishop Christodoulos of Magnesia, the Divine Liturgy was served on Sunday, 27 November at the Church of St Savvas of Kalymnos in the Sydney suburb of Banksia and a Memorial Service was conducted for the Holodormor victims of the Ukrainian…

On Saturday, November 26, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, who is on a pastoral tour in Adelaide, participated as a keynote speaker at the Youth Conference organised by the Central Youth “St. Stephen the First Martyr” of the Archdiocesan District of Adelaide with the general theme of the Conference being: “take courage, I have…

On Friday morning, November 25, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia arrived in Adelaide, and will remain for six days in South Australia, in order to communicate with the Greek Orthodox flock of the State, to participate and speak at the State Youth Conference, to perform three ordinations of new clergy, to celebrate the opening…

On Friday, November 25, His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and all Africa, accompanied by the Members of the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, visited the city of Suez, where he celebrated the Thyranoixia (blessing and opening of the doors of the Church) of the historical Community Church of Saint…

On Sunday, 27 November 2022, A Christmas function for the Federation of Greek Seniors of Melbourne and Victoria took place at the Star Reception in Melbourne. At the event, representing His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, was His Grace Bishop Evmenios of Kerasounta, Archiepiscopal Vicar of Northcote. Also present, apart from the President Mr. Ioannis…

Representing His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, His Grace Bishop Evmenios of Kerasounta presided over the official Doxology for the liberation of Macedonia organised every year by the Pan-Macedonian Union of Melbourne and Victoria. The Doxology was held at the Holy Church of Saints Methodius and Cyril, in Preston, Melbourne, in the presence of, among…