His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew visited on Wednesday, July 13, in the morning, the Children’s Creative Activities Centre of the Holy Metropolis of Ioannina and the Charity Organisation “APOSTOLI” of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens, where he was welcomed with flowers and songs by the young children participating in the ongoing summer program of the…

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, in collaboration with the Orthodox Christian Studies Center (OCSC) of Fordham University, are pleased to announce the creation of the “OCSC Summer Internship Program”. The OCSC Summer Internship Program will provide undergraduate students at Fordham University who are minoring in Orthodox Christian Studies the opportunity to support the mission…

Though the GOARCH Clergy-Laity Congress usually occurs every two years, this year’s was notable not only for its commemoration of the Centennial of the Archdiocese, but for its in-person return after convening virtually in 2019. The regathering of so many clergy and laity face-to-face again was cause for celebration, and it inspired reflection among delegates…

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On Wednesday, 30 June/ 13 July 2022, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the Synaxis of the Holy Glorious twelve Apostles at the Holy Church dedicated to them on the west shore of the sea of Tiberias, at the centre of the town of Tiberias. On this feast the Church gathers, namely, it keeps the…

The publication house of the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi has issued a new edition of homilies by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi. The work is an Athonite testimony of man’s path towards the light of God.  

The Metropolitan of Syros, His Eminence Dorotheos II, on Wednesday officiated at the opening of a new chapel on the island of Mykonos dedicated to St. Spyridonas and Nicodemus the Righteous of Mount Athos. The chapel was built in the Kalafatis site of the Cyclades Island, a donation of the Papaioannou family. Several Mount Athos…

The Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, His Eminence Nikitas, on Sunday officiated at the Divine Liturgy held at the Church of St. John the Baptist in Haringey, North London. After the celebration, an annual memorial service for the victims of the 1974 invasion of Cyprus was held.  

More than 80 children gathered together at the parish of Sts Constantine and Helen in Perth on Monday, for a school holiday activity in support of homeless in the western Australian city. With the blessing of Archbishop Makarios of Australia, for the second year in a row the specific Greek Orthodox parish teamed up with…