His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel has extended his blessing to all students taking national exams in Romania. “Exams are good opportunities for evaluation and intellectual maturation in a competitive society, but also necessary steps to cultivate spiritual and cultural values that increase the capacity for dialogue and communication between people,” the Patriarch of Romania encouraged students…

The Ecumenical Patriarch welcomed today, Wednesday, June 8, 2022, the President of the Republic of Montenegro Milo Đukanović at the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The meeting was also attended by Metropolitan Elder of Chalkidona Emmanuel. The President of Montenegro was welcomed by the Great Protosyncellus Theodoros, head of the Patriarchal Court, and accompanied him to the Patriarchal…

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The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Tuesday received the visiting Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, at the Mother Church’s Fanar district see. The Archbishop arrived in Constantinople to participate in the reverent celebrations of the Ecumenical Patriarch’s name day, which will be held one day earlier this year, on…

Con-celebratory events commemorating the feast day of Our Righteous Father Panagis Basias were concluded at the St. Nicholas Cathedral – Ascension, in the city of Lixouri, on the Ionian Island of Cephallonia. The resident Metropolitan, His Eminence Demetrios, officiated at the Vespers and a Holy Supplication. A litany of the saint’s Holy Icon and Relics…

The Albanian presidency this week posthumously honored artist and hagiographer Iosif Drobovik. The outgoing president of Albania, Ilir Meta, bestowed a medal of honor for the deceased artist, in recognition for his contributions to culture and the arts in the Adriatic country. The Holy Archdiocese of Tirana was represented by His Grace Bishop Astios.

Greece’s foreign ministry this week condemned the latest vandalism in the Holy Land against a Christian place of worship. The statement refers to the incursion into a property owned by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, and the desecration of a chapel there by members of a Jewish seminary. The statement read, “…We expect appropriate…

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, opened an event entitled “On the Path to Galilee”, organized by the Holy Metropolis of Mesogea and Lavreotiki, which lies east of Athens proper, and in cooperation with eight municipalities in the region. The event aims to brief public opinion on the issue of support…

  The Church today venerates the memory of Kalliope the Martyr. Today is also the commemoration of the Removal of the Relics of Theodore the Commander.