The Holy Cincture of the Theotokos, the All-Holy Virgin Mary, will be conveyed today, Saturday, from the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi to the St. Nicholas Cathedral of Piraeus. The Holy Cincture will arrive at Greece’s largest port city, located in the greater Athens area, where it will be festively received by the resident…

His Eminence Metropolitan Ioakeim of Bursa, was present at the funeral service of the President of the Jewish Community of Bursa, Leon Elnekave. The funeral was performed by Chief Rabbi of the Jews of Turkey, İshak Haleva, at the historic Gerus Synagogue of Bursa, in the presence of members of the Jewish Community, of the Mayor…

A fruitful meeting with the members of the Orthodox Student Associations operating and active in four university institutions of New South Wales, as well as with the Clergy responsible for them, was held on Thursday, November 3, with His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia. Specifically, the meeting was attended by students from the University of…

Westfield, NJ – With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, on Thursday, November 3, 2022, Young Adults from the Northern New Jersey area gathered together at the Metropolis of New Jersey headquarters in Westfield, NJ for an evening of fellowship and for the formation of a regional YAL Board. Hosted by His…

November 6, 2022 Unto the Most Reverend and Right Reverend Hierarchs, Pious Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, Presidents and Members of Parish Councils, Honorable Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Members of Leadership 100, the Day and Afternoon Schools, Philoptochos Societies, the Youth, Greek Orthodox Organizations, and the entirety of the Christ-named Plenitude of…

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The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week addressed a conference in the Gulf state of Bahrain, entitled ““Bahrain Forum for Dialogue: East and West for Human Co-existence”. In his address, His All Holiness noted that “…Orthodox Christianity has a long experience of cohabitation with other religions and denominations.” The Primate…

Today marks the 93rd birthday of the Archbishop of Durres, Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios. His Beatitude was born on Nov. 4, 1929, in Piraeus, Greece. The hierarch arrived in the Adriatic country in 1991 as part of a herculean effort by the Ecumenical Patriarchate to revive Orthodoxy there after more than four…