The Holy Cincture of the Theotokos, the All-Holy Virgin Mary, will be conveyed from the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi to the St. Nicholas Cathedral of Piraeus on Nov. 5, where the Holy Relic will remain until Nov. 13. The Holy Cincture will arrive at Greece’s largest port city, located in the greater Athens…

The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi, will hold an online assembly on Saturday, Oct. 29, with psychologists, psychiatrists, educators and neurologists based in Romania. The session will begin at 19:30 Athens time, or 17.30 GMT. A parallel translation will be available in Romanian, English, Russian, Georgian, French…

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The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, this week visited the Monastery of St. George at Yellow Rock, in the State of New South Wales, accompanied by the visiting Church of Greece’s Metropolitan of Larissa and Tyrnavos, His Eminence Ieronymos. The Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of Australia and accompanying hierarchs were welcomed by…

The “Way of the Saints” procession, after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, was again held on Monday in Bucharest, as part of festivities dedicated to St. Demetrius the New, the Romanian capital’s patron saint. Thousands of pilgrims marched through the streets of Bucharest carrying icons and the Holy Relics of saints, with the…

Faithful from around Greece and abroad continued to head to the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Demetrios in Thessaloniki, on the eve of the feast day of the Holy Great-Martyr Demetrios the Myrrh-Streamer. A Divine Liturgy was conducted on Tuesday, along with the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, officiated by the Metropolitan of Sidirokastro, His Eminence…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, concluded a historic pastoral visit with a meeting at Buckingham Palace with new British monarch King Charles III. His All Holiness was accompanied by the resident Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, His Eminence Nikitas. Upon completion of his apostolic visit to Great Britain, on…

The Church today commemorates the memory of Tabitha, who was raised from the dead by Peter the Apostle.

The website of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem publishes the letter sent to it by the honorable Architect Mr Leonidas Kollas from Corfu, which refers to the Restoration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during the years 1961-1965, sponsored by the pious source of Greece. In April 1961, during the Patriarchal Office of the memorable…