ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE On Sunday afternoon, 31 August 2025, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided at the Great Vespers for the Feast of the Indiction, at the All-Venerable Patriarchal Church of Saint George at the Phanar. Present in prayer were Hierarchs of the Throne, clergy, Archons of the Great Church of Christ, as well as faithful…

With ineffable joy, “in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, together with the Bodiless Powers and the Apostles, keeping festival with gladness,” our devout people today celebrate the revered Dormition and Translation of the All-Immaculate Theotokos. We celebrate rather than mourn, for She “who bore Life,” three days after Her Dormition, “was translated unto life.”…

SAINT CATHERINE’S MONASTERY AND ARCHBISHOPIC OF MOUNT SINAI In Sinai, 13th August 2025 To His Beatitude the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III   Your Beatitude Father and Master, We wish to express our heartfelt gratitude both to Your Beatitude for Your truly paternal and spiritual interest, as well as to His Eminence Archbishop Aristarchos of…

On Sunday evening, 10 August, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, who was joined by Their Graces, Bishop Kyriakos of Melbourne and Bishop Evmenios of Chora, visited the Parish of The Presentation Our Lady to the Temple in the suburb of Balwyn North in Melbourne. His Eminence presided over the Great Supplicatory Canon to the…

On Wednesday, 6 August 2025, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain, representing His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, took part in the celebration of the Great Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord at the Holy Patriarchal and Stavropegic Monastery of Saint Nikanor in Zavorda, Grevena, Greece. The feast was marked with an…

The feast of Saint Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople and Metropolitan of Wallachia, was celebrated in Târgovişte, Romania, on 10–11 August 2025, under the coordination of Archbishop and Metropolitan Nifon. The events drew more than 20,000 pilgrims from across the country. The festivities began on 10 August with the Vespers service, followed by a Youth Pilgrimage…

Romanian President Nicușor Dan and Moldovan President Maia Sandu visited on Sunday the “Protection of the Mother of God” Church in the village of Ghidighici, near Chișinău. Parish priest Maxim Melinti presented to them the old church, the new church currently under construction—dedicated to the “Transfiguration of the Lord”—and the “Island of Happiness” Social Centre,…

Ahead of the great feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God, the mosaic depicting the Virgin Mary Orans has been installed in the narthex of Romania’s National Cathedral. In this image, the Most Holy Theotokos is shown with her hands raised and palms open, with the Child Jesus depicted on her chest —…

With the paternal concern of His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, after responding to a relevant plead, a three member committee was sent from the Hagiotaphite Brotherhood, and since it arrived, it made a series of contacts and discussions in Sinai. The committee that was sent by His Beatitude, after the meeting with the…