Your Grace Bishop Apostolos of Medeia, Archimandrite Christoforos Oikonomidis, Chancellor, Very Reverend and Reverend Fathers, President of Hermes Expo, Paul Kotrosios, Our Master of Ceremonies H. James Polos,   Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Greetings to all the honorees this evening! And may I express how delighted I am to be with all of you…

In planning for the forthcoming retirement of Rev. Father John Bakas, who has served as Dean of Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Los Angeles for 27 years, His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco has assigned Rev. Father Gary Kyriacou to serve this community. In order to ensure a smooth transition, Father Gary will…

Beloved in the Lord, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.” Proverbs 3:5 I wish to inform you that I am scheduled to have Mitral Valve Replacement surgery on December 6, 2022. This condition has been monitored for several years, and I made the decision, in…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, on Tuesday received the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa’s Metropolitan of Zambia, His Eminence Ioannis, as well as the Church of Greece’s Metropolitans of Ioannina and Fthiotida, their Eminences Maximos and Simeon, respectively. His Eminence presented the Ecumenical Patriarch with artwork depicting the Theotokos, the All-Holy…

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On Wednesday, November 3/16, 2022, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the glorious great martyr George the Trophy-bearer in Lydda, at his holy church and tomb. On this day, the Church does not celebrate the memory of his martyrdom, which took place in Rome under Diocletian, but the memory of the repatriation, that is, the…

On Tuesday, November 2nd/15th 2022, the Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece, Mr Thrasyvoulos Lalakos, visited the Patriarchate, accompanied by the Ambassador of Greece to Israel, Mr Kyriakos Loukakis, his partner, Mr Konstandaras, with the Consul General of Greece to Jerusalem Mr Evangelos Vlioras, the Consul Mrs Christina Zacharioudaki and the…

Thanks to a generous donation from the doctor and surgeon Mr. Fanis Stathis, the maintenance and restoration of frescoes at one monastery in central Greece is well underway. With the guidance of the Kardista Department of Antiquities, the conservator Alexandros Konstantas and his team have started work on the frescoes at Holy Transfiguration Monastery in…

The nearly two-week presence of the Holy Cincture of the Theotokos, the All-Holy Virgin Mary, this month at the St. Nicholas Cathedral of Piraeus was the second time in a century that the Holy Relic had been reverently welcomed in Greece’s largest port-city. The Holy Cincture had been solemnly conveyed from the Holy and Great…