Numerous faithful and clerics on Tuesday welcomed the translation of the holy relic of St. Arsenios of Cappadocia, which was solemnly conveyed from the Holy Metropolis of Corfu to the St. Demetrios Cathedral in the same-name district in the greater Athens area. The Holy Relic was conveyed in a procession led by the Metropolitan of…

The Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, His Eminence Nikitas, on Sunday officiated at the 40-day memorial service for reposed Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, conducted at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Divine Wisdom in London.

The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X, met in Beirut this week with the Patriarchate’s resident Metropolitan-Bishop, His Eminence Elias. Discussions focused directly on the situation in Lebanon, and the heightened problems faced by residents of the small Mideast country, as well as an upcoming presidential election there, with the…

Sessions of the 5th conference on pastoral ministry in the health sector, organized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, begin today on the Dodecanese Island of Rhodes. The conference will commence with a blessing ceremony, followed by the reading out of a message by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All-Holiness Bartholomew I.

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Tuesday afternoon attended the book launch of a Greek-language edition entitled “Women in the Shadow of Violence: Pastoral Responsibility and the Viewpoint of Religions”. In his address, His Beatitude noted that “…the book in question is the product of a pilot conference of the…

The Church today venerates the memory of Charitina the Martyr. Today is also the feast day of Methodia the Righteous of Kimolos.

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Course Desctiption Learning Ancient Greek – for non-Greek speakers Ancient Greek, the language of Aeschylus, Aesop, Alexander the Great, Archimedes, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Euclid, Euripides, Hippocrates, Homer, Pericles, Plato, Ptolemy, Sophocles, Thales, Thucydides, Xenophon, the language of the New Testament and the Holy Fathers, is foundational. Even in the 21st century we continue to think about…

The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy & Great Monasetry of Vatopedi, on Monday evening spoke at the St. Demetrios Cathedral, in the east Athens district of Vyronas, on the subject of “Chastity of the Heart”. The address was part of this year’s Demetria series of events in the greater Athens area, ahead…