On Sunday the 9th of October, the feastday of St James the Apostle, the son of Alphaeus, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia officiated at the Church of All Saints in Belmore, Sydney, participating in the official celebration for the 50-year anniversary of priesthood of Protopresbyter Father Chris Triantafyllou, Rector of the Parish. Fr Chris…

Your Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa, On behalf of all the brothers and sisters of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America: The Most Reverend Metropolitans of the Holy Eparchial Synod; The Bishops, Priests, Presvyteres, Deacons and Diakonisses; The Leadership of All Archdiocesan and Metropolis Institutions; The Parish Councils, Greek Schools and…

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The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Mount Athos, speaking on the First Sunday of Luke, as based on the Julian calendar, referred to the significance of spiritual life and the acceptance of God’s Will in the life of man. The Elder Ephraim addressed the Vatopedi brotherhood…

A blessing ceremony officiated by the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Elder Metropolitan Geron, was held last week on the occasion of the new academic year for the tiny but resilient ethnic Greek community on the Marmara Sea Isle of Prinkipo, one of the Princes Islands. Greece’s Deputy Education and Religious Affairs Minister, Zeta Makri, was also on…

A service was officiated on Saturday by clerics who are graduates of the theological academy Resurrection of Christ, at the Catholicon of the Holy Monastery of St. Blaise, or Vlasios, in the Albanian port city of Durres. The year marks the 30-year anniversary of the foundation of the theological academy by the Autocephalous Orthodox Church…

The visiting Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Beatitude Theodoros II, on Sunday officiated at the Patriarchal Divine Liturgy at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York City, a service that sealed the apostolic and historic visit to America by the Primate of the Alexandria Church. The Archbishop…

The Metropolitan of Skopje and Archbishop of Ohrid, His Beatitude Stefan, over the weekend referred to the latest developments dealing with the Archbishopric, or Archdiocese of Ohrid, in the wake of a landmark restoration of its canonical status last spring by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, followed by the swift resumption of eucharist communion with…

  The latest inflammatory statement by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the increasingly authoritarian but also poll-trailing president of Turkey, came over the weekend, when in speaking to youth supporters, the Islamist Turkish leader spoke of re-conversions of other museums in the country to mosques, similar to the desecration perpetrated on the incomparable Hagia Sophia in Constantinople,…