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 32nd pan-Orthodox conference of sanctioned Orthodox Churches and Holy Metropolises tasked with facing heresies and cults, concluded on Thursday. A text of conclusions issued at the end of the conference. Sessions commenced on Tuesday in the southwest Greek city of Pyrgos, in the Peloponnese, following a decision by the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous…

The Church today venerates the memory of Artemios, the Great Martyr of Antioch. Today is also the feast day of Gerasimos of Cephalonia, and Matrona, the Righteous of Chios. The feast day of St. Artemios was celebrated in a festal and solemn manner by law enforcement in the country, with the main con-celebratory services held…

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Dear colleagues We are writing to inform you about the e-Meeting with Elder Ephraim Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi, Mount Athos and Romanian Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Educators and Neurologists which will take place Saturday 29 October 2022 at 19:30 EET. Interpretation available in Romanian, English, Russian, Georgian, French and Arabic. The e-Meeting is organized…

The feast of the Doha Cathedral was celebrated with ecclesiastical splendour. For pastoral reasons, the feast was moved to Friday. On Thursday, September 30 / October 13, 2022, the Great solemn Vespers with the blessing of bread was held, presided over by His Eminence Metropolitan Timotheos of Bostra and Exarch of the Holy Sepulchre in…

His Beatitude, Patriarch John X, received Sheikh Al-Akl of the Unitarian Druze community, Dr. Sami Abi Al-Muna, at the head of a delegation from the community, at the patriarchal residence in Balamand. The delegation included: Judge of the community Sheikh Gandhi Makarim, Secretary of the community council Nizar Al-Baradei, Head of the Communication and Public…

The first National Clergy Synaxis went down in history as a momentous event in the life of the Orthodox Church of the fifth continent given that, through the inspired theological lectures and the ensuing constructive dialogue, it brought spiritual benefit and renewal to the reverend clergy, monastics and all those participating in the proceedings. The…

The faithful in Athens on Tuesday joyously greeted the arrival of the wonder-working icon of the Panagia Soumela, which was conveyed from the Monastery of Mt. Vermio, in northern Greece, in a splendorous procession to the St. Dimitrios Cathedral in the Ambelokipi district of Athens. The Holy Icon was conveyed by His Eminence Metropolitan Panteleimon…