The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, on Tuesday, honored the “Good Samaritans” of the Greek Welfare Centre, the volunteers of the organization who are at the forefront of efforts to support the most vulnerable people in the community. The awards were bestowed during an event hosted in an assembly hall at the St. Andrew’s…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, on Tuesday inaugurated an exhibition entitled “Frozen Silence”, dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Nov Sad raid in Christmas 1942 by Hungarian occupation forces against Serbs, Jews and Roma in the Baska region. In his address, the Serbian Patriarch emphasized that without the historical memory…

A presentation of four Georgian-language books, published by the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi, was held in Tbilisi in September 2022. In addressing numerous attendees, the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Monastery, referred to Mount Athos, where the venerable monastery was founded in the 10th century, the ceaseless prayers of the monks…

Today marks the 31st anniversary of the enthronement of Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, as the Primate of the Mother Church. His All Holiness was enthroned at the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George at the Phanar, nearly two weeks after his election as the new Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and…

The Church today venerates the memory of Acindynos, Pegasios, Af-thonios, Elpidophoros and Anempodistos, Martyrs of Persia. On the occasion, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America issued an invitation to the faithful, on the occasion of the name-day of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, to attend a hierarchical Divine Liturgy on Wednesday morning at the Cathedral of…

On Tuesday, November 1, at a modest but moving event hosted in a packed hall at the Saint Andrew’s Theological College in Sydney, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia awarded the “Good Samaritans” of the Greek Welfare Centre, that is, the volunteers of the Organisation who are at the forefront of a titanic struggle to…

On the occasion of the Feast Day of Apostle Stachys, the first Bishop of Byzantium, On Monday, 31 October 2022, at the Patriarchal Church of Saint George, Phanar, a Hierarchical Liturgy presided over by His Eminence Metropolitan Irineos of Myriophytos and Peristaseos was conducted. On Sunday, the eve of the feast day, His Eminence also…

The Venerable Head of St. Gregory of Nyssa was conveyed on Monday, 31 October, to the celebrating Metropolitan Cathedral of the Holy Unmercenaries, Cosmas and Damian, in the west Athens municipality of Nea Ionia, for veneration by the clergy and faithful. The Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Aneon, His Eminence Makarios, officiated at a festal Vespers,…

With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, His Grace Bishop Evmenios of Kerasounta presided over the festive events on the feast of St. David of Evia, which took place in the Holy Church of Panagia Soumela in East Keilor, inside which there is a Holy Chapel dedicated to the honoured Saint. On…