The latest online synaxis, or assembly, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, will be held today at 20.00 Athens time, or 18.00 GMT. The Elder Ephraim will address pupils of the Orthodox school St. Sosthenis, of the Orthodox Diocese of Bukuba, in Tanzania. A translation will…

With the blessing of the Patriarch of Bulgaria, His Holiness Neofyt, the Bishop of Belogradchik, His Grace Polycarp, this week placed the foundation stone for a new church at the geology faculty at the Sofia Seminary of St John of Rila. The Church will be dedicated to St John of Rila.

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, on Thursday received college students who are Church scholarship recipients, with the meeting taking place at the Patriarchal see in Belgrade. Earlier, the group of college students toured the Serbian Orthodox Church Museum, the Patriarchate’s library and the chapel of St. Symeon the Myrrh-bearer.

The Russian Orthodox Church’s newly appointed Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Anthony, who also assumes the post of chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, this week referred to continuing instances of extremism against Christian shrines and places of worship in the Holy Land. His Eminence spoke to the Russian TASS news…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, commenced a four-day pastoral visit to Athens on Thursday evening, with the Primate of the Mother Church welcomed at the Athens Archdiocese by His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos. His All Holiness expressed heartfelt thanks for the fraternal welcome, as he underlined, while conveying the blessing and…

The Church today venerates the memory of Isaurus, the Holy Martyr, & his Companions of Athens. Today is also the feast day of St. Filonidis, bishop of Kourion, on Cyprus.

On the morning of Thursday, 3rd/16th of June 2022, a ten-member Parliamentary Delegation under the former Minister of Justice and current member of Parliament Mrs Natalia-Elena Intotero visited the Patriarchate, accompanied by the Ambassador of Romania in Israel Mr Radu Ioanid and the Ecclesiastical Delegation in Jerusalem, Archimandrite Theophilos and Archimandrite Ioannis. The Delegation was…

The eighth anniversary of His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and Scandinavia’s enthronement as the Archpastor of the Holy Metropolis of Sweden (June 14, 2014) coincided with an invitation to speak at the Department of Social Theology and the Study of Religion at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, extended by its faculty member…

The Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem was convened yesterday, Wednesday, June 15, during a session led by the Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Theophilos III, with attendance from the members of the Holy Synod. Several issues related to ecclesiastical and pastoral administrative affairs of the holy places were among…