The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Mount Athos, speaking on the First Sunday of Luke, as based on the Julian calendar, referred to the significance of spiritual life and the acceptance of God’s Will in the life of man. The Elder Ephraim addressed the Vatopedi brotherhood…

A blessing ceremony officiated by the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Elder Metropolitan Geron, was held last week on the occasion of the new academic year for the tiny but resilient ethnic Greek community on the Marmara Sea Isle of Prinkipo, one of the Princes Islands. Greece’s Deputy Education and Religious Affairs Minister, Zeta Makri, was also on…

A service was officiated on Saturday by clerics who are graduates of the theological academy Resurrection of Christ, at the Catholicon of the Holy Monastery of St. Blaise, or Vlasios, in the Albanian port city of Durres. The year marks the 30-year anniversary of the foundation of the theological academy by the Autocephalous Orthodox Church…

The visiting Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Beatitude Theodoros II, on Sunday officiated at the Patriarchal Divine Liturgy at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York City, a service that sealed the apostolic and historic visit to America by the Primate of the Alexandria Church. The Archbishop…

The Metropolitan of Skopje and Archbishop of Ohrid, His Beatitude Stefan, over the weekend referred to the latest developments dealing with the Archbishopric, or Archdiocese of Ohrid, in the wake of a landmark restoration of its canonical status last spring by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, followed by the swift resumption of eucharist communion with…

  The latest inflammatory statement by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the increasingly authoritarian but also poll-trailing president of Turkey, came over the weekend, when in speaking to youth supporters, the Islamist Turkish leader spoke of re-conversions of other museums in the country to mosques, similar to the desecration perpetrated on the incomparable Hagia Sophia in Constantinople,…

The Church today venerates the memory of Eulampios & Eulampia the Martyrs.

On Sunday, October 9, His Eminence Geron Metropolitan Dimitrios of Prince’s Islands, officiated during the Divine Liturgy at the Metropolitan Church of Saint Dimitrios, Prigkipos Island, while at the end of it he performed the Agiasmos Service for the beginning of the new school year 2022-2023 of the island’s Community School. During the Divine Liturgy…

With the Blessings of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, His Grace Bishop Bartholomew of Charioupolis, the Archiepiscopal Vicar of Canberra visited the regional town of Wagga Wagga and served Matins and the Divine Liturgy at the church of the Dormition of the Theotokos. In his sermon His Grace emphasised the importance of the Resurrection…