The Parish Community of the Annunciation of the Theotokos in East Melbourne was visited by His Grace Bishop Kyriakos of Sozopolis, Archiepiscopal Vicar for Melbourne on Sunday 9 October 2022. His Grace liturgised on the feast day of the Apostle James (Iakovos), Son of Alphaeus, accompanied by the Proistamenos of the Church, Father Antonios Vanikiotis….

On Thursday, 6 October, on the feast day in which the Holy Church honours the memory of Apostle Saint Thomas, at the Holy Church of Saints Kyrillos and Methodios in the Archdiocesan District of Northcote of Victoria, a Divine Liturgy for the primary school students of the Greek Orthodox College of Saint John Preston was…

Your Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa, Your Eminence Archbishop Demetrios Most Reverend Metropolitans and Hierarchs, Beloved Clergy and Presvyteres of our Church, Honorable Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Esteemed Archons and Archons-elect, Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Tonight, we are privileged to have in our presence the living icon of…

His Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros of Alexandria met with two of the Omogeneia’s champions of philanthropy: the Greek Orthodox Ladies’ Philoptochos Society and the Archbishop Iakovos Leadership 100 Fund. Philoptochos is one of the largest women’s auxiliaries in the United States— or, as National President Arlene Siavelis Kehl put it, an “army of women”— tackling social…

Students at the Saint Nicholas Shrine Church and School welcomed a special guest on Friday, October 7. From Alexandria, Egypt to Queens, New York, the Apostolic Visit of His Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros II to the United States — the first ever by a Patriarch of Alexandria— included a trip to the beloved Greek day school…

The Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi continues to embellish its series of psaltic music by unveiling the latest edition of hymns in honor and veneration of the Holy Cincture of the Theotokos, the Virgin Mary. For more information or to order, please visit the website www.vatopedi.gr

The Serbian Orthodox Church today will hold a prayer service for the protection of the family and the sanctity of marriage, while the Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, has already issued a message for the eradication of violence against women. His Holiness said women, mothers and sisters are “sacred”, underlining that he will personally…

Thursday marked the first full day of an apostolic visit by the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Beatitude Theodoros II, to the United States, the first-ever to America by an enthroned Patriarch of Alexandria. In the morning, His Beatitude met with local hierarchs of other Christian churches in the New York…

Hierarchs of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece on Friday elected another two new Metropolitans to fill the vacant thrones for the ecclesiastic jurisdiction of Drama, in northern Greece, and Ilia, in southwest Greece. Specifically, Archimandrite Dorotheos was elected as the new Metropolitan of Drama, while the Bishop of Oleni, His…