The Pemptousia platform is a sponsor of a performance of excerpts of the trilogy “Great Hours”, by composer Andreas Katsigiannis, to be held at the Herod Atticus Odeon on Thursday. The performance is a collaboration with the State Orchestra of Athens. The excerpts will be interpreted by performers Glykeria, Dimitris Bassis and Jonathan Jackson, the…

Vatopedi publications has unveiled a new tome of homilies and addresses by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Mount Athos. The work comprises an Athonite testimony of man’s course towards the light of God.  

The Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Oinousses, His Eminence Markos, this week officiated at the sacrament of baptism of an adult into the Orthodox faith. The baptism of the new faithful of the Orthodox Church, who was raised a Methodist, took place at the early Christian Basilica of St. Isidoros, on the eastern Aegean Island…

Today, September 27th, marks the 191st anniversary of the assassination of the first governor of the modern state of Greece, Count Ioannis Kapodistrias, one of the pre-eminent European statesmen of the era. Kapodistrias was fatally shot by two assassins, members of the powerful Mavromichalis clan of Mani, at dawn on Sept. 27, 1831 as he…

Greece’s sovereignty over its Aegean islands is not in dispute, the US State Department reminded on Monday, in response to the latest new threats and war-mongering rhetoric launched by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan against Greece. A spokesperson for the US State Department noted the United States continues to encourage its NATO allies to work…

The Church today venerates the memory of Kallistratos the Martyr & his 49 Companions.

On the last sunday of September, The Holy Metropolis of Thessaliotis and Fanariofersala honours the Holy and glorious Hieromartyr Seraphim, Archbishop of Phanarios and Neochorio, in Fanari of Karditsa (the place of the martyrdom of the Saint). This Feast was instituted in 1936 by the blessed Metropolitan Ezekiel of Thessaliotis and Fanariofersala. On Saturday evening,…

During the two days of October 18 and 19, 2022, at the initiative of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, the first Pan-Australian Clergy Synaxis will be held in Sydney with the theme: “Priesthood: From Secularization to Ecclesiastical Attitude”. Speakers from Constantinople, Greece and Australia have been invited to the Synaxis, and will attend to…

His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain was received at Buckingham Palace by His Majesty King Charles III. King Charles III invited the UK’s Religious Leaders to the Palace on Friday, September 16, 2022. Archbishop Nikitas expressed his thanks on behalf of the pious people of the Holy Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great…