With God’s help, the Spring International Food Festival was held again this year with great success in the courtyard of St. Nicholas Cathedral in Seoul. The participation of a large number of people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, a wide variety of foods, dips, desserts and cookies from ten countries, exquisite flavors and wonderful…
The event will take place in the period 22-25 May 2025 and will bring together guests from the United States and Romania. The current edition is part of the series of events dedicated in the Romanian Patriarchate to the Commemoration of the Centenary of the Romanian Patriarchate and to the Commemoration of Romanian Spiritual Fathers…
Sunday, 5th/18th May 2025, was celebrated as the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman, the fourth Sunday after Pascha. On this day, we commemorate the spiritual encounter of our Lord Jesus Christ with the Samaritan woman at the Well of the Patriarch Jacob. During their conversation, He revealed Himself to her as the awaited Messiah, the…
During the night-time Divine Liturgy of the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman, on the 5th/18th of May 2025, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Secretary of the Holy and Sacred Synod and Cantor of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Hieromonk Simeon, was ordained to the Priesthood by His Eminence the Patriarchal Commissioner,…
In an atmosphere of spiritual joy and emotion, the laying of the foundation stone of the new Greek Orthodox Church, which will be honoured in the name of Saint Savvas the New of Kalymnos, took place on Sunday, 18 May, in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. The sanctification of the foundation was performed by His Eminence…
Summary: Prodromos Eznepidis, the father of little Arsenios (Saint Paisios), tries to manage the situations and the problems that arise, but without his spiritual father, Elder Arsenios, it is not easy. And while he is ready to give up, his wife Evlogia shows her mental strength and wisdom, she supports him and helps him not…
Balamand, 16 May 2025. His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East sent a letter to Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem and All Palestine. The letter included: “We are overwhelmed with joy as we extend to Your Beatitude our respectful and fraternal embrace in the Lord, and say: During this holy season…
The Holy Synod was convened today Thursday, May 15, 2025 at the headquarters of the Jerusalem Patriarchate, chaired by His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem. His Beatitude discussed with the members of the Holy Synod several issues pertaining to the Patriarchate’s administrative, spiritual, and pastoral affairs, which serve the…
On the Wednesday of Mid-Pentecost, 14 May 2025, following an invitation by Metropolitan Daniel of Accra, a Synaxis/Meeting of the Holy Clergy of Ghana took place in the events hall of the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Christ in Accra. In the morning, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated, presided over by Metropolitan Daniel, in the…