The new High Commissioner of the Republic of Cyprus to Australia, Mr. Antonis Sammoutis made a visit to the headquarters of the Archdiocesan District of Northcote in Victoria on Monday morning, October 3 2022. Mr. Sammoutis was welcomed, on behalf of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, by the Archiepiscopal Vicar of Northcote, His Grace…

On Saturday, 1 October 2022, with great splendour the consecration of the Katholikon of the Holy Monastery of Saint John of the Mountain, in Perth, Western Australia, was conducted by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, and their Graces Bishop Emilianos of Meloa and Bishop Elpidios of Kyanea, Archiepiscopal Vicar of Perth. At the end…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, on Sunday, October 2, received in the afternoon, Mrs. Olena Zelenska, the wife of the President of Ukraine, Mr. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was accompanied by Mr. Andriy Yermak, head of the Office of the President, Mrs. Yulia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Mr. Andrii Sybiha, Deputy Head of…

New York – His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America is pleased to welcome His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa to the United States, where he will receive the 2022 Athenagoras Human Rights Award from the Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarch in America, at…

Your Eminence, Metropolitan Panteleimon of Xanthi, Right Reverend Abbess Gerontissa Antonini of Panagia Eikosiphoinissa Patriarchal and Stavropegial Monastery, Dear Friend, Mr. Steve Green, Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Museum of the Bible, Dr. Jeff and Ms. Susan Kloha, Chief Curator, and Dr. Brian Hyland, Associate Curator of Medieval Manuscripts of the Museum…

DRAMA, Greece — On Thursday, September 29, 2022, an 11th-century Greek Gospel manuscript was officially repatriated to the Theotokos Eikosiphoinissa (Kosinitza) Patriarchal and Stavropegial Monastery by the Museum of the Bible. One of the world’s oldest hand-lettered gospels, Gospel Manuscript 220 is among the 470 religious objects and 430 manuscripts looted from the Monastery in…

Your Eminence Benjamin Atas, Archbishop of the Syriac-Aramean Community of Sweden, Reverend Fathers, Esteemed Parish Council Members, Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, My dear children, I am happy to be with you today at this decorous ceremony. Deeply moved, I express my thanks and appreciation to your spiritual father, His Eminence Archbishop Benjamin, for…

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, on Thursday referred to a “… miracle that can be explained only spiritually”, as he described the repatriation, to the Monastery of Ikosifinissa, in northern Greece, of one of the oldest and best-preserved Greek-language Gospels in the world, handwritten at the end of the 10th century, and stolen…

Today, Sept. 30th, marks the 15-year anniversary of the enthronement of His Beatitude Daniel to the throne of the Romanian Orthodox Church. In the 15 years since the enthronement, Patriarch Daniel has spearheaded several Church initiatives aimed at young people, the protection of motherhood, the promotion and preservation of Romanian national identity and blood drive…