On Sunday His Grace bishop Kyriakos of Sozopolis presided over the Divine Liturgy for the feast day of St Iakovos the apostle, at the Archdiocesan Church of Saint Eustathios, South Melbourne. Also present at the Divine Liturgy was His Excellency, Nikolaos Hardalias, Deputy Minister for National Defence for the Hellenic Republic representing the Prime Minister…

Tuesday 1, November 2022 07:30 PM Athens Time   Dear brothers and sisters You are invited to participate in the Digital fellowship with Elder Ephraim of Vatopedi Mount Athos and the MEDSCIF (Medicine, Science and Faith) Association which will take place Tuesday 1, November 2022 07:30 PM Athens Time. This digital fellowship is organized by…

V. Rev. Archimandrite Chrysostom Onyekakeyah, Project Coordinator for Mission and Outreach Development for the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidoforos of America, attended the 29th Annual National Conference of the Fellowship of Saint Moses the Black held between October 14-16, 2022, at the parish of St. Moses the…

The fabled star catalog from the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus had been feared lost A medieval parchment from a monastery in Egypt has yielded a surprising treasure. Hidden beneath Christian texts, scholars have discovered what seems to be part of the long-lost star catalogue of the astronomer Hipparchus—believed to be the earliest known attempt to…

The Holy Cincture of the Theotokos, the All-Holy Virgin Mary, will be conveyed from the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi to the St. Nicholas Cathedral of Piraeus on Nov. 5, where the Holy Relic will remain until Nov. 13. The Holy Cincture will arrive at Greece’s largest port city, located in the greater Athens…

The Evgenios Voulgaris Academy of the St. Maximos the Greek Institute, operating under the blessing of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, will begin offering a four-grade webinar course program in ancient Greek, beginning later this month. The first course is designed for absolute beginners, aged 14 years and older. Students will be introduced…

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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