With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, the official opening Ceremony and Blessing of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia National Schools Event took place on Tuesday 6 May 2025 at the Church of Saint Nektarios in Dianella, WA. In attendance at the opening ceremony was the Consul for Greece in Perth…

His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, will be proclaimed Honorary Doctor of the Department of Theology and the Department of Social Theology and Religious Studies of the School of Theology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). The awarding ceremony will take place on Wednesday, 7 May 2025 at 6:30 p.m. (Greece Time),…

On Tuesday, 6 May 2025, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, welcomed to Athens, Their Graces, Bishop Elpidios of Perth, Bishop Silouan of Adelaide and Bishop Kyriakos of Melbourne, as well as a group of laypeople from Australia, who are participating in the 14-day Pilgrimage organised by the Holy Archdiocese of Australia, with destinations in…

On Sunday, the 21st of April / 4th of May 2025, the Patriarchate solemnly celebrated the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women. On this day, the Church commemorates Joseph of Arimathaea, the noble counsellor and burial-giver of our Lord, who came from Arimathaea—modern-day Ramla—a respected member of the council, who boldly went unto Pilate and asked…

On Sunday, 4 May 2025, the Monastery of Saint Vlash in Albania hosted a festal Divine Liturgy on the occasion of the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women. The service was led by His Beatitude Archbishop John of Tirana, Durrës, and All Albania, marking his first official pastoral visit to this revered monastery. The Archbishop concelebrated…

On Sunday the 4th of May 2025, the Third Sunday of Pascha and the Sunday of the Holy Myrrhbearers, with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, His Grace Bishop Elpidios of Perth Presided over the Matins and Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the Church of Sts Constantine and Helene in Perth WA. At…

On Wednesday, 23 April 2025, it was announced that two Roman Catholic institutions in Bavaria have decided to jointly award their annual prizes—for the first time ever—to His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, in recognition of his contribution to the Ecumenical Dialogue, that is, the effort to bring Christian Churches closer together. The institutions honouring the…

“Our task is to restart from Nicaea, from the unalloyed and integrated Kerygma of the Apostles and the Dogmata of the Fathers” emphasised, among other things, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew from the podium of the International Academic Conference on the theme “Starting Again from Nicaea: The Significance of the Incarnation in Contemporary Theology,” which…

On the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women, 4 May 2025, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided over the Patriarchal and Poly-Hierarchical Divine Liturgy which took place at the venerable Patriarchal Church of Saint George, with the concelebration of Their Eminences, Metropolitan Meliton of Philadelphia, Metropolitan Irinaios of Myriophytos and Peristasis, Metropolitan Athenagoras of Kydonia, Metropolitan…