The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, officiated at the Divine Liturgy on Sunday at the Panaghia of Island Park Cathedral, in lower New York state. Archbishop Elpidophoros will travel to Constantinople this week and arrive at the Ecumenical Patriarchate, in order to convey the concern and support of the Archdiocese of America’s Philoptochos fund…

Radical squatters of unknown origin on Sunday evening briefly occupied a property at the Holy Zion site, which belongs to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. According to reports, the squatters gathered around the chapel and near the school building, bringing tables and a bed covers, ostensibly in order to settle permanently. The Patriarchate strongly…

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the canonization of St. Kallinikos, Metropolitan of Edessa, Pella and Almopias, as well as the 38th anniversary of the hierarch’s repose in the Lord. The canonization of St. Kallinikos was announced by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in June 2020, a decision greeted with joy…

The Church today venerates the memory Our Holy Father Myronos the Wonderworker, Bishop of Crete.  

At noon on Saturday, July 24 / August 6, 2022, a thirty-member group of the Greek Navy, i.e. the crew of the tanker “Ikaria”, visited the Patriarchate in the presence of the representative of the Greek Consulate General, Mrs Christina Zacharioudaki. The leader of this group, Mr Georgios Manzouris, in the presence of the military…

On the morning of Saturday, July 24 / August 6, 2022, a twenty-member group of representatives of the Greek Orthodox Scouts of the Joppa region and of all Israel visited the Patriarchate. This delegation, under their leader Mr David Mansour, was warmly received by our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos and Hagiotaphite Fathers, Fr…

On the morning of Friday, July 23 / August 5, 2022, the new Hegoumen of Gethsemane, His Eminence Metropolitan Joachim of Hellenoupolis, celebrated the Matins with the Divine Liturgy in the chapel of the Dormition of the Theotokos at the Metochion of Gethsemane, opposite the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, with the prayer of a…

On Sunday, July 25 / August 7, 2022, radical squatters of unknown origin occupied the property of the Patriarchate of Holy Sion, around the chapel and near the School building, bringing tables and a bed covers, intending to settle permanently. The Patriarchate strongly protested against the repeated flagrant violation of this pilgrimage site and, by…

On Sunday, 7 August 2022 with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia and under the guidance of His Grace Bishop Kyriakos Five Loaves volunteers came to St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Church in Forrest Hill, Melbourne to make and then distribute sandwiches to homeless and people living in crisis accommodation. Approximately 50 volunteers…