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The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, on Tuesday received the special advisor to UNESCO, Dr. Mounir Bouchenaki, at the Archdiocese headquarters in New York City. During the meeting, Dr. Bouchenaki briefed His Eminence on the latest developments in the status of Hagia Sophia— which had previously been preserved as a UNESCO World Heritage Site…

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With the blessing of the Patriarch of Bulgaria, His Holiness Neofyt, the Bishop of Belogranchik, His Grace Polycarp, this week officiated at the blessing ceremony of a center in Sofia for the rehabilitation of children with blood cancers, which was officially named in honor of St. Stylianos, protector of children. The center opened two years…

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, on Tuesday officiated at the Divine Liturgy at the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Dormition of the Theotokos, a service co-officiated by the visiting Metropolitan-Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Grace Joanikije, and the Bishop of Slavonia, His Grace Jovan. The two hierarchs of the…

The faithful in Athens on Tuesday joyously and solemnly greeted the arrival of the wonder-working icon of the Panaghia Soumela, which was conveyed from the dedicated Monastery of Mt. Vermio, in northern Greece, in a splendorous procession to the St. Demetrios Cathedral in the Ambelokipi district of Athens The Holy Icon was conveyed by the…

Sessions of the 32nd pan-Orthodox conference of sanctioned Orthodox Churches and Holy Metropolises dealing with heresies and cults commenced this week in the southwest Greece city of Pyrgos, in the Ilia prefecture. The sessions will continue until Thursday, following a decision by the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece, and was held…

The Church today commemorates the memory of Joel the Prophet.

The proceedings of the first National Clergy Synaxis started on Tuesday the 18th of October with the blessing of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and was attended by most of the priests of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia, monks, nuns, novices, candidates to the priesthood, as well as students of St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological…