The Archbishop of Durres, Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, began an official visit to Poland on Tuesday, at the invitation of the Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland, His Beatitude Sawa. A doxology service for the arrival of the Primate of the Albanian Church will be held on Wednesday at the…

The Patriarch of the Bulgarian Church, His Holiness Neofyt, this week issued a message on the occasion of the new academic year for the tertiary Orthodox theological schools in the country. His Holiness referred to educators and students as successors of a rich millennia-long cultural and spiritual tradition, one dating to the dawn of the…

A customary Divine Liturgy was held in the morning to commence the session of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece. Hierarchs of the Church of Greece, under the chairmanship of Archbishop His Beatitude Ieronymos, convened at the Petraki Monastery in Athens. The Divine Liturgy was officiated by the most junior member…

The Church today venerates the memory of Hierotheos, Bishop of Athens.  

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On Monday, 3 October 2022, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia visited both The Consulate of Greece in Perth and “Saint Andrew’s” Nursing Home of the Greek Community of Western Australia. During the visit to the Greek Consulate, His Eminence and his entourage, consisting among others His Grace Bishop Elpidios of Kyanea and His Grace…

Elders Dionisie Ignat and Petroniu Tănase’s canonisation was debated last week by the Synod (Assembly of Bishops) of the Metropolis of Muntenia and Dobruja. Another canonisation request was revealed at the conclusion of the meeting: Wallachia’s Metropolitan Neophyte of Crete (1690-1753). “He was described as a Greek more Romanianlike than Romanians. He was poisoned by…

As announced by the Ecumenical Patriarchate during today’s meeting of the Holy and Sacred Synod, His All-Holiness designated as members of the Joint Committee on the Charter of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, on behalf of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Their Eminences Metropolitan Geron Emmanuel of Chalcedon and Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain,…

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