The Pemptousia online platform has introduced an improved application called ‘Vimatarissa’, named after the patronal icon of the Mother of God, preserved at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi. With the Vimatarissa app, users can access the Internet and read the ‘Words of Life’ segment, by the Fathers and Saints of the Orthodox Church…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, over the weekend welcomed, to the Holy Cathedral of St. Savvas in Belgrade, pupils from the Kantakuzina Katarina Branković Serbian Orthodox Secondary School in Zagreb. In receiving the school group, His Holiness said the iconic cathedral will be a place of worship for all Serbs, and above all,…

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The Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Theophilos III, last week received the professor emeritus of Athens’ Polytechnic, Antonia Moropoulou. The distinguished Greek academic and architect was in Jerusalem to give a lecture, within the framework of the conference “New Studies in the Archeology of Jerusalem and its Region”. The latter was held in the ceremonial…

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…

An interview with the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, was published in the Sunday edition of the Athens daily “Kathimerini”. Among others, His Beatitude stressed that he has given a five-day ultimatum to an Athens-area priest and several monks that appear as his spiritual children, to evacuate the chapel of St….

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, began a pastoral visit to Great Britain over the weekend. His All Holiness, accompanied by the Metropolitan of Belgium, His Eminence Athinagoras, and hierarchs of the Patriarchal throne, arrived in London at the invitation of the Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, His Eminence Nikitas,…

The Church today venerates the memory of Sebastiane the Martyr. Today is also the feast day of Arethas, the Great Martyr and His Fellow Martyrs.

The results are in and A. Fantis School is one of the best schools in all of New York City! The 2022 student achievement results show that Fantis ranks in the top 3% of more than 1,300 elementary and middle schools in New York City. A. Fantis School is a small, private and inclusive Greek…