Elders Dionisie Ignat and Petroniu Tănase’s canonisation was debated last week by the Synod (Assembly of Bishops) of the Metropolis of Muntenia and Dobruja. Another canonisation request was revealed at the conclusion of the meeting: Wallachia’s Metropolitan Neophyte of Crete (1690-1753). “He was described as a Greek more Romanianlike than Romanians. He was poisoned by…

As announced by the Ecumenical Patriarchate during today’s meeting of the Holy and Sacred Synod, His All-Holiness designated as members of the Joint Committee on the Charter of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, on behalf of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Their Eminences Metropolitan Geron Emmanuel of Chalcedon and Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain,…

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The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy and Life-Giving Cross was celebrated on Sunday at the Holy Cross Monastery, located in West Jerusalem. The occasion, as based on the Julian calendar, was celebrated in memory and honor of the tradition by which the area of ​​the Monastery, under Biblical Lot, was where the three-composite…

Sunday marked the 31st anniversary of the repose in the Lord of Ecumenical Patriarch Demetrios, who served as the Shepherd of the Mother Church for 19 years. On the occasion, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Sunday afternoon visited the grave of the his predecessor and officiated at a Trisagion…

An awards ceremony for the cast of the hugely popular Greek-language television series “From Farasa to the Heavens”, which recounts the life and works of 20th century St. Paisios, was held over the weekend at the municipal center of the Athens-area Aghios Demetrios municipality. The cast-members received a blessing from the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the…

Members of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece will convene in person on Tuesday in Athens. One of the most prominent items on the agenda is the election of four new Metropolitans for a same-number of metropolises around the country, and specifically the ecclesiastical jurisdictions of Gortynia-Megaloupoli, Aetolia-Akarnania, Drama and Ilia.

The Church today venerates the memory of Dionysios the Areopagite, the patron saint of Athens, the Greek capital.

On the 2nd Sunday of Luke, 2 October 2022, at the Holy Church of Saints Anargyri, in Oakleigh of Melbourne, The Matins and Divine Liturgy took place, presided over and officiated by His Grace Bishop Christodoulos of Magnesia, who was also joined in prayer by His Grace Bishop Kyriakos of Sozopolis, Archiepiscopal Vicar of Melbourne….