The Church today venerates the memory of Matthew the Apostle & Evangelist.

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The memory of St. Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessaloniki, was venerated on Monday – the feast day of the saint – at the Holy Metropolis of Kastoria, with the resident Metropolitan, His Eminence Metropolitan Kallinikos, officiating at a Divine Liturgy at the Chapel of the Archangels. The Congregation of faithful included students of a nearby…

On Monday, 21 November 2022, the Feast Day of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple, at the celebrating Holy Cathedral of Panagia of Pera, a Patriarchal and Synodical Divine Liturgy will take place, officiated by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The Ecumenical Patriarch will conduct the ordination to the deaconate of Mr. Konstantinos…

On November 15, 2022, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros welcomed Mr. Michalis Stavrianoudakis, Secretary General of Interior and Organization for the Hellenic Republic, to the Archdiocese. Director of the Office of the Minister of the Interior Mr. Theodosis Athanasas and Consul of Greece to New York Mr. Dimitrios Papageorgiou attended the meeting, as well. goarch.org

Archbishop Receives Vicar of Vicariate for Palestinian & Jordanian Orthodox Communities in America His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros received the Reverend Protopresbyter George Jweinat, Archepiscopal Vicar of the Vicariate for the Palestinian and Jordanian Christian Orthodox Communities in America, for an audience at the Archdiocese this morning, November 15, 2022. goarch.org  

The Athens University’s School of Theology this week welcomed freshmen for the new academic year. A modest welcoming ceremony, symbolically called the “Rose Reception”, was dedicated to a condemnation of domestic violence. Among others, the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Prof. Meletios-Athanassios Dimopoulos, along with a representative of the Archbishop of…

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Vatopedi Publications has unveiled the Abridged Anastasimatarion by Petros Peloponnisios, the third scholarly paper in the series Vatopedi Musical Studies, edited and presented by choir director and Byzantine musicologist Georgios Konstantinou. Anastasimatarion is the service book of the Orthodox Church, containing the Ana-STA-sima, or Resurrectional hymns of the vesper, the Sunday matins, and certain other…