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 Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Belgium and Exarch of the Low Countries and Luxembourg, His Eminence Athinagoras, over the weekend officiated at the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Monastery of St. John the Baptist, in the renowned Dutch city of The Hague. The occasion marked the first pastoral visit to The Hague by His Eminence….

The visiting Metropolitan of New Zealand, His Eminence Myron, this week presented the pastoral and charitable work of the Holy Metropolis, speaking at an event organized by the Church of Crete’s Metropolis of Kissamos and Selinos. A short film was shown during the event, detailing the missionary efforts conducted by this far-flung Metropolis of the…

The Metropolitan-Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Grace Joannikije, accompanied by the Serbian Church’s Bishop of Slavonia, His Grace Jovan, this week visited the seat of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, where they were welcomed by the Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Anthony.  

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 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 and…

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The Evdokimos the Newly-Revealed is commemorated today with centuries-old Athonite rite at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Mount Athos, as based on the Julian calendar. The Saint’s Holy Relics were placed at the center of the Catholicon, the main cathedral of the monastery, on the eve of the feast day by the…

Greek authorities and Frontex officers on Saturday rescued 92 young men forced by Turkish police to cross a river separating the two countries aboard three inflatable craft, and after being stripped of their clothes and possessions, a shocking development that has reverberated around the world, and one that again demonstrates the barbarity of the authoritarian…

The Church today venerates the memory of the Apostle and Evangelist Luke, author of the Holy Gospel.