His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros visited the gravesite of his father, the late Vassilis Lambriniadis, at the St. George Cemetery in Makrochori (Bakirköy) yesterday. Born in Istanbul, Lambriniadis raised his family there before moving with them to Thessaloniki as refugees in search of a better life. It was his father, the Archbishop has said, who instilled…

Yet another name of the 20th-century martyrs and confessors to be canonized by the Romanian Holy Synod in 2025 has been revealed. In February 2021, the Romanian Synod announced that it intends to canonize in 2025 a dozen elders and confessors who suffered under communism to mark the 140th anniversary of autocephaly and the 100th…

On July 22, 2020, the first parish church in the world dedicated to the great Athonite elder St. Joseph the Hesychast was consecrated in Tbilisi, Georgia. The church is located within the complex of the Church of the Exaltation of the Precious Cross in the Saburalo section of the Georgian capital. The rector, Archpriest Theodore…

إحتفلت البطريركية الأرشليمية يوم الأربعاء الموافق 10 آب 2022 (28 تموز حسب التقويم الشرقي) بعيد القديس البار يوحنا الخوزيفي الجديد الذي من رومانيا في دير الخوزيفا. في تاريخ 31 كانون الثاني (18 كانون الثاني شرقي) عام 2016 أعلن المجمع الأورشليمي المقدس قداسة البار يوحنا وأدرجته في سنكسار الكنيسة الأوثوذكسية .وحددت تاريخ 28 تموز شرقي يوم…

On Tuesday, July 28/August 10, 2022, the memory of Saint John the New Hozevite, from Romania, was celebrated in the Holy Monastery of his repentance, of Saint George and John the Hosevites. Saint John was added to the Saints of the Church of Jerusalem by its Synodal decision and by a special canonization ceremony in…

On Tuesday, July 27/ August 9, 2022, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of the Holy glorious great martyr Panteleimon the healer, at the Holy Monastery dedicated to him on the south-west of the Patriarchate, near Jaffa Gate. On this day the Church commemorates the life and martyrdom of Saint Panteleimon according to his synaxarion. The…

The Digital Fellowship from Mount Athos with Elder Ephraim, which will take place today, Thursday August 11, 2022, 08:00-09:30 PM Athens Time Interpretation will be available in Romanian, English, French, Georgian. Arabic and Russian. The e-Synaxis is organised by the web magazine PEMPTOUSIA. Please register in advance for this meeting by clicking on the following…

The Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi has unveiled new audio series featuring the hymns from the Suppliant Canon of the Wonder-working Icon of the Panaghia Pantanassis, as chanted by a choir of Vatopedi Fathers. The text of the paraklissis, or supplication, is a poem by reposed Elder Joseph of Vatopedi, and chanted under Athonite…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, will travel to the coastal town Herceg Novi over the weekend in order to attend events marking the 640th anniversary of its establishment, and on the occasion of the translation of the Holy Relics St. Stephen, the first martyr of Christianity, as based on the Julian calendar. The…