Hagiography at the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at Ground Zero in Manhattan is expected to be concluded by the end of October, according to Hieromonk Lucas, among the hagiographers at the landmark place of worship. Fr. Lucas, from the Holy Monastery of Xenophontos on Mt. Athos, spoke with ethnic Greek media…

The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X, has accepted the resignation of the Antioch Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of New York and Archbishop of all North America, His Eminence Joseph. The pending resignation and retirement of Metropolitan Joseph had been previously reported by the Orthodoxia News Agency. In an announcement issued by…

Memorial and te deum services were held in several Metropolises and parishes around Greece on Sunday, on the occasion of last week’s annual commemoration of the Day of National Remembrance of the Genocide of the Greeks of Asia Minor by the Turkish State. The annual commemoration was established in a unanimous vote in Greece’s Parliament…

The Church today venerates the memory of Trophimos, Sabbatios & Dorymedon, the Martyrs.

On Sunday, September 5th/18th 2022, the Patriarchate celebrated the Feast of the Nativity of our Lady and Immaculate Mary in the Holy Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in Beit Jala. During this feast, the Church remembers that the Theotokos is a gift of God to her childless parents, Joachim and Anna,…

The decision to award the photographic exhibition of the Holy Theological School of Halki at the Thessaloniki International Fair, which was organised at the stand of the city’s Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with “Byzantine Thessaloniki”, as the best participation in this year’s 86th Thessaloniki International Fair, was received by the Administration of the Exhibition….

On September 14, 2022, Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa, had a meeting with the President of the Republic of Madagascar, Mr. Andry Nirina Rajoelina, in the capital city of Antananarivo, Madagascar. Patriarch Theodoros II was accompanied to the Presidential Palace by the local Metropolitan Ignatius of Antananarivo, Bishop Prodromos of Toliara, the…

On the feast day of Saint Euphemia the Great Martyr, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was present during the Matins and Divine Liturgy praying from within the holy altar, which took place on Friday, September 16 2022, at the venerable Patriarchal Church of Saint George in the Phanar, which was also presided over by His…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew accompanied by His Eminence Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, and the Gand Ecclesiarch, Father Aetios, Director of the Personal Office of the Patriarch, on Sunday, September 18 2022, at noon, went to the Chapel of Saint Helen, of the Consulate General of Great Britain in Constantinople, where he attended a…