The Holy Cincture of the Theotokos, the All-Holy Virgin Mary, will be conveyed from the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi to the St. Nicholas Cathedral of Piraeus on Nov. 5, where the Holy Relic will remain until Nov. 13. The Holy Cincture will arrive at Greece’s largest port city, located in the greater Athens…

The Evgenios Voulgaris Academy of the St. Maximos the Greek Institute, operating under the blessing of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, will begin offering a four-grade webinar course program in ancient Greek, beginning later this month. The first course is designed for absolute beginners, aged 14 years and older. Students will be introduced…

The Pemptousia online platform has introduced an improved application called ‘Vimatarissa’, named after the patronal icon of the Mother of God, preserved at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi. With the Vimatarissa app, users can access the Internet and read the ‘Words of Life’ segment, by the Fathers and Saints of the Orthodox Church…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, over the weekend welcomed, to the Holy Cathedral of St. Savvas in Belgrade, pupils from the Kantakuzina Katarina Branković Serbian Orthodox Secondary School in Zagreb. In receiving the school group, His Holiness said the iconic cathedral will be a place of worship for all Serbs, and above all,…

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The Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Theophilos III, last week received the professor emeritus of Athens’ Polytechnic, Antonia Moropoulou. The distinguished Greek academic and architect was in Jerusalem to give a lecture, within the framework of the conference “New Studies in the Archeology of Jerusalem and its Region”. The latter was held in the ceremonial…

The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi, will hold an online assembly on Saturday, Oct. 29, with psychologists, psychiatrists, educators and neurologists based in Romania. The session will begin at 19:30 Athens time, or 17.30 GMT. A parallel translation will be available in Romanian, English, Russian, Georgian, French…

An interview with the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, was published in the Sunday edition of the Athens daily “Kathimerini”. Among others, His Beatitude stressed that he has given a five-day ultimatum to an Athens-area priest and several monks that appear as his spiritual children, to evacuate the chapel of St….

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, began a pastoral visit to Great Britain over the weekend. His All Holiness, accompanied by the Metropolitan of Belgium, His Eminence Athinagoras, and hierarchs of the Patriarchal throne, arrived in London at the invitation of the Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, His Eminence Nikitas,…