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The Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Theophilos III, this week received Greece’s visiting climate crisis and political protection minister, Christos Stylianides, and members of a ministry delegation on an official visit to Israel. Stylianides and members of the delegation, accompanied by Greek diplomats accredited to Israel, were warmly received by His Beatitude and the Hagiotaphite…

The Bishop of Jinja and Eastern Uganda, His Grace Silvestros, on Wednesday morning officiated at an archieratical Divine Liturgy at the Church of St. Nicholas in Kampala, the country’s capital, on the occasion of the feast day of St. Ieronymos.

The Archbishop Ieronymos today celebrates his name day. A day earlier, His Beatitude officiated at the blessing and dedication of the new church of St. Athanasios, at the Geriatric Research Center and Elderly Care Unit “Aghios Porfirios”, in the coastal town of Dilesi, due north of Athens. Afterwards, Archbishop Ieronymos officiated at the Great Vespers,…

Tears of joy greeted news this week that the canonical committee of the Sacred and Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople has canonized Hieromonk Vissarion (born Vissarion Korkoliakos), as a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The reposed Hieromonk for decades ministered and served the Lord from the Holy Monastery of Agathonikos, within…

The Church today venerates the memory of Amos the Prophet. Today is also the feast day of Our Righteous Father Hieronymos.

The Theological School of Halki congratulated the newly elected Bishop Paisios of Xanthoupolis. Via an announcement that was issued today, Bishop Kassianos of Arabissos and the Theological School of Halki wished Bishop Paisios of Xanthoupolis a long, and fruitful service to the glory of God and the blessing of the Great Church of Jesus Christ,…

On 4 June 2022 the Orthodox faithful of Sydney were saddened to hear that sister Agatha, of Holy Cross Monastery, Mangrove Mountain, NSW, had reposed in the Lord. Holy Cross Monastery announced, ’with much pain of heart but with hope and trust in our All-Merciful Lord, we announce that our beloved sister Agatha, after living…

“The spiritual life in different eras presents an alternation and a flexibility, depending on the salvific needs of the people and the relevant temporal specifics. In the past, extreme stress on the body was very normal and widespread […] Today, however, people need another form of necrosis. We need to get rid of modern stimuli,…