Oakleigh Grammar farewelled its Chaplain, Reverend Father George Adamakis in a celebration of song and dance attended by the whole school on Tuesday 21 June. Father George recently assumed leadership of St Catherine’s Greek Orthodox Parish in Malvern East, leaving Sts Anargiri Parish and Oakleigh Grammar. For the past 12 years Father George has filled…

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, this week again tested positive for the Covid-19 virus. His Beatitude had tested positive for Covid-19 in November 2020. According to announcement by the Archdiocese of Athens on Thursday afternoon, the Primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece remains at Archdiocese’s official parsonage and…

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Today marks the two-year anniversary of the canonization by the Sacred and Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Metropolitan of Edessa Kallinikos. A feature has been posted today on the pages of Pemptousia on the life and works of this 20th century saint of the Orthodox Church.

The fifth annual theology assembly, entitled “Orthodox Theology’s Responsibility for Peace and Justice in the World,” will be held in Athens this coming September at the Lycée Franco-Hellénique. The assembly is organized by the National Theology Association Kairos, whose main goal is the upgrading of religious education in Greece.

The Metropolitan of Rethymno & Avlopotamos, His Eminence Prodromos, tomorrow, Friday, celebrates his name day, as June 24 annually commemorates the feast day of the Nativity of the Forerunner, John the Baptist. A great Archieratical Vespers was held this afternoon at the celebrating Holy Monastery of St. John Prodromos at the Ba-LEE site, in Crete’s…

Wednesday, June 22, marked the 81st anniversary of the insidious German invasion of the then Soviet Union, today called the “Day of Memory and Sorrow” in Russia. As part of commemorative and memorial events, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, laid a wreath, on behalf of the Russian Orthodox Church, at…

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Thursday met with former Greek public order minister Michalis Chrysohoidis. Afterwards, he received former minister and current Parliament deputy Giorgos Koumoutsakos.

The Church today venerates the memory of Agrippina the Martyr of Rome. Today is also the feast day of the Holy Martyrs Aristocleus the Priest, Demetrius the Deacon, and Athanasios the Reader.