The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Beatitude Theodoros II, arrived in the United States on Wednesday for an official visit. His Beatitude and an entourage of hierarchs of the Alexandria Patriarchate were welcomed by the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros. The historic visit marks the first ever to the United…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week inaugurated sessions – via video link – of the 5th conference on pastoral ministry in the health sector, which is taking place on the Dodecanese Island of Rhodes. In his address, His All Holiness detailed how the Ecumenical Patriarchate reacted and managed the…

Members of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece on Thursday elected new Metropolitans for the vacant ecclesiastical jurisdictions of Gortynia and Megaloupoli, in southern Greece’s Peloponnese province, as well as for the Metropolis of Aetolia and Akarnania, in western Greece. Archimandrite Nikiforos Eustathiou was elected as the new Metropolitan of the…

The Church today venerates the memory of Thomas, the Apostle of the 12.  

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The Association of Orthodox Theology Students of Romania, under the coordination of the Patriarchate of Romania, is hosting three lectures next week on the subject of prayer, with a related conference to be held at the Patriarchal Hall in Bucharest. The inaugural speaker will be the Church of Greece’s Metropolitan of Mesogea and Lavreotiki, His…

Numerous faithful and clerics on Tuesday welcomed the translation of the holy relic of St. Arsenios of Cappadocia, which was solemnly conveyed from the Holy Metropolis of Corfu to the St. Demetrios Cathedral in the same-name district in the greater Athens area. The Holy Relic was conveyed in a procession led by the Metropolitan of…

The Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, His Eminence Nikitas, on Sunday officiated at the 40-day memorial service for reposed Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, conducted at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Divine Wisdom in London.

The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X, met in Beirut this week with the Patriarchate’s resident Metropolitan-Bishop, His Eminence Elias. Discussions focused directly on the situation in Lebanon, and the heightened problems faced by residents of the small Mideast country, as well as an upcoming presidential election there, with the…