His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America on Thursday welcomed visiting Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center. The Greek Prime Minister and his entourage were also greeted by Santiago Calatrava, the main design architect of the shrine; the parishes clerics and laity,…

The Church today commemorates the Conception of St. John the Baptist. This came to pass 15 months before the birth of Christ, after the vision of the Angel that Zacharias, the father of the Forerunner, saw in the Temple while he executed the priest’s office during the feast of the Tabernacles, as tradition bears witness….

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Youths from the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania’s Metropolis of Elbasan this week visited the historic Monastery of Decani, in the Kosovo & Metohija province, with the blessing of the Metropolitan of Elbasan, His Eminence Anthony. The pilgrimage visit’s goal was to acquaint young people of the Albanian Church with one of the largest and…

More than 2,500 pupils in the Vulcea country of Romania have received school supplies donated by the Archdiocese of Rimniku.

The Holy Monastery of Hilandar of Mount Athos continues to support university students in Serbia. The Abbot of the venerable monastery, the Elder Archimandrite Methodios, recently presented a scholarship to Biliana Tsekic, who starred in the role of young Dara in a production recounting the horrors of the Jacenovac concentration camp during WWII, where the…

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The inauguration of a chapel dedicated to Platon, the new Hieromartyr of Patmos, was held on Wednesday on the same-name island of the eastern Aegean. Building of the new chapel had been overseen by the reposed Abbot of the Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Theologian, Bishop of Tralleon, Isidoros.          

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, on Wednesday met with representatives of the Greek Diaspora in New York City, in the presence of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The latter is visiting the metropolis on the occasion of the 77th UN General Assembly. Mitsotakis is due to address the General Assembly’s plenum on Friday….