On the evening of Sunday, August 29/September 11, 2022, the Minister of Health of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr Michalis Hatzipandelas, visited the Patriarchate, accompanied by a group of his colleagues, Dr Christina Vassiliou Giannaki, Director General of the Ministry of Health, Mrs Theodora Konstantinidou, Ambassador of Cyprus to Israel, and Mr Konstantinos Athanasiou, Dr…

n Sunday, August 29/September 11, 2022, the commemoration of the beheading of the Holy Forerunner and Baptist John was held at the Patriarchate. During this feast, the Church, especially that of Jerusalem, remembers that Saint John the Baptist, “clothed with a mantle and eating locusts and wild honey”, (Matthew 3:4), calls the multitudes to repentance,…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros welcomed Mr. Demetri Papacostas and Mr. Dimitrios Katsiklis to the Archdiocese today, where they received their respecitve appointments as Parish Council President and Head Cantor of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine. Present at the meeting were the Archdiocesan Chancellor, Archimandrite Nektarios Papazafiropoulos, and the Proistamenos of St….

Today, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros appointed the Very Reverend Archimandrite Chrysostomos Gilbert as the new Dean of the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York City. Fr. Chrysostomos, who succeeds the Rev. Fr. Nikolas Karloutsos, had previously served eight years as the presiding priest of the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Manhattan. In…

The Central Youth “St. Stephen the Protomartyr” of the Archdiocesan District of Adelaide is organising, on September 26, 2022, the 10th State Youth Conference. The theme of the conference is: “Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world” (John 16:33), while His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia will also be present for the conference,…

Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, officiated at the Divine Liturgy on Sunday at the restored Cathedral of St. Nicholas, on the islet of Ammouliani, off Halkidiki prefecture in northern Greece. The cathedral, a previous glebe of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, has undergone restoration works…

Today marked the commencement of the 2022-2023 academic year, with pupils returning to classrooms in several countries, including in predominately Orthodox Christian Greece, where annual blessing ceremonies were held in the morning, many attended by local Metropolitans and Bishops, as well as office-holders. The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All- Holiness Bartholomew I, on the…

In the context of the recently inaugurated 86th Thessaloniki International Trade Fair (TIF), by the Prime Minister of Greece, Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in collaboration with the organisation of Byzantine Thessaloniki, a photographic exhibition at the booth of the Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce, was organised by the Holy Theological School of Halki, on the subject of…

On Monday, September 12, an Agiasmos blessing for the start of the new school year for the teachers and students of the Zappeion School, was held at the facilities of the Holy Trinity Church dinning hall, of the Great Greek Orthodox Community of Stavrodromi. The Agiasmos blessing service was performed by Archiepiscopal Vicar of Stavrodromi,…