Over 55 young adults gathered for the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco Young Adult Fall Retreat held at Saint Nicholas Ranch and Retreat Center in Dunlap, CA over the weekend of November 4 – 6, 2022. Participants came from throughout the Metropolis of San Francisco, as well as from Florida, Maine, and Utah. The…

Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, There is a beautiful saying that circulates on social media: “When you have more than you need, build a bigger table, not a higher fence.” This saying is especially appropriate for the Thanksgiving holiday in our nation because it expresses the deeply Orthodox Christian value of hospitality. Hospitality, or…

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Vatopedi publications has unveiled a new tome of homilies and addresses by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Mount Athos. The work comprises an Athonite testimony of man’s course towards the light of God. 

The memory of Righteous Jacob of Evia was commemorated on Tuesday, the feast day of the 20th century saint, at the Holy Monastery of St. David on the large same-named island of Evia. On the eve of the feast day, the Metropolitan of Halkida, His Eminence Chrysostomos, welcomed the Metropolitan of Karystia & Skyros, His…

The Metropolitan of Kythira, His Eminence Seraphim, on Tuesday was acquitted of all charges related to an alleged violation of an emergency public health law in force at the time to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus. His Eminence was acquitted by a three-justice misdemeanor court in the port city of Piraeus. The resident…

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia on Tuesday received visiting Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, at the Patriarchal residence of in the Russian capital’s Danilov Monastery. The meeting was also attended by Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, as well as other hierarchs of…

Μembers of the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa convened on Tuesday, under the chairmanship of the Pope and Patriarch of the Alexandrian Church, His Beatitude Theodoros II. The Holy Synod announced decisions over what the venerable Patriarchate has called an “intrusion”, into its ecclesiastical jurisdiction, by the Moscow Patriarchate. Among…

The Church today venerates the memory of Amphilochios, Bishop of Iconium. The memory of St. Amphilochios, Bishop of Iconium, was commemorated in a solemn and festal manner by the Holy Metropolis of Thira, Amorgos and the Isles, with the resident Metropolitan, also named Amphilochios, celebrating his name day. His Eminence officiated at a con-celebrating Archieratical…