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The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholemew I, on Tuesday visited the Municipality of Sintiki, in the northern Greece prefecture of Serres, as the Primate of the Mother Church continued a private visit to the area, following an invitation of resident Metropolitan Makarios. On Tuesday, the Ecumenical Patriarch was awarded an honorary doctorate…

The wonder-working Holy Icon Axion Esti of the Theotokos, the All-Holy Virgin Mary, was conveyed from the church of the Protaton, in the Mount Athos capital of Karyes, to the northeast Greece city of Komotini on Tuesday, on the occasion of the centennial anniversary of the Thrace province’s joining mother Greece. Numerous faithful, including pilgrims…

Today the Church commemorates the Forefeast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. Today is also the feast day of Sozon the Martyr.

The Centennial Exhibit of the Archdiocese, which made its debut at the 2022 Clergy-Laity Congress in New York City, can presently be found at the Maliotis Cultural Center in Boston, MA on the campus of Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. The exhibit will remain at the Cultural Center until the end…

On Monday, August 23/September 5, 2022, the day of the Apodosis of the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, the ceremony of the procession of the icon of the Dormition was celebrated in the Church of Jerusalem. The Procession began after the Divine Liturgy at the Tomb of the Theotokos which was presided over…

The glorification of Hiero-Confessor Archpriest Mikhail Soyuzov was liturgically celebrated yesterday at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, led by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill. Fr. Mikhail was one of three priests canonized among the Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church by the Russian Holy Synod on August 25. The glorification of…

If the Latvian president gets his way, the Orthodox Church in Latvia will be forcefully separated from the Moscow Patriarchate. Egils Levits, who has served as head of state since July 2019, announced today on the official presidential website that he submitted a draft law, prepared together with the Ministry of Justice, to the Saeima—the…

A new church under the care of the Jerusalem Patriarchate opened in Jordan last week. The inauguration ceremony was attended by His Eminence Archbishop Christophoros of Kyriakoupolis, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Patriarchate Schools, and the Jordanian Minister of Culture Haifa Najjar, reports the Orthodoxia News Agency. “Today we have fulfilled…