Archbishop Elpidophoros sat down with Bill Marianes, host of the Ancient Faith Radio program “Stewardship Calling,” to discuss this year’s meeting of the Assembly of Bishops. His Eminence also reflected on the Year of the Youth and the Assembly’s creation of two new pan-Orthodox agencies: the Orthodox Volunteer Corp and a Youth & Young Adult…

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The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy & Great Vatopedi, spoke earlier today at an online synaxis with the faithful from Romania, his first since overcoming a major health problem earlier in the summer. The online synaxis, or assembly, was hosted by the Internet platform Pempoutsia and the Romanian Patriarchate’s television station, Trinitas,…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, this week viewed the devotional film “Man of God” in Serbia, attending a premiere in a central Belgrade movie theater. His Holiness later posted a message on social media, where he noted that he was impressed with the film, adding that amid a period when selfishness and excess…

The ordination of the Monk Anastasios Kirmitzakis to deacon was observed on Thursday during an all-night Vigil at the Church of Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. The ordination was officiated by Archbishop Isidoros of Hierapolis. In the morning, the newly ordained Deacon paid his respects to the Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Most Godly Beatitude Theofilos III,…

Greece’s culture minister, Lina Mendoni, accompanied by the country’s Consul General in Geneva, Alexandros Gennimatas, on Thursday toured the Orthodox Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Swiss town of Chambesy. A delegation from Greece’s culture ministry travelled to Switzerland this week for a series of events in honor of Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first governor…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, has issued an encyclical regarding Sunday’s Feast of the Holy Physicians. The Mother Church will honor, for the first time, the contribution of medical science to mankind, following the decision of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical patriarchate has decided…

The Church today venerates the memory of Loukianos the Martyr of Antioch; as well as Savinos the Bishop of Catania and Barsus the Confessor.

Tanzania’s first monastery, named for the holy Archangel Michael and St. Paisius (Velichkovsky), celebrated its first Divine Liturgy in February of last year. After the service, the foundation stone was laid for the erection of a number of cells and annexes necessary for the proper functioning of the monastery. And work at the holy monastery…