From 23 to 27 April 2025, 50 students of the Christian Student Action of Thessaloniki (Χριστιανική Φοιτητική Δράση) made a pilgrimage to the Holy Metropolis of Pisidia. The group, led by theologian Mr. Marios Domouchtsis and accompanied by Hieromonk Theologos Chrysanthakopoulos, visited Myra in Lycia (Demre), Side, Alanya, and Antalya. The group, composed of students…

On Sunday, the 14th/27th of April 2025, the Patriarchate celebrated the Sunday of the Holy Apostle Thomas, that is, the event of the touching of the Lord by the Apostle Thomas, according to the Typikon of the Church and the established Status Quo. On this Sunday, eight days after Pascha, the Church commemorates that on…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew visited the Hrant Dink Museum, where he was welcomed by the widow of the murdered man and her associates, as well as the offices of the AGOS newspaper, where he was honourably welcomed by those responsible for its publication, whom he thanked for their support for the Ecumenical Patriarchate and…

With feelings of joy, emotion and pride, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, welcomed on Monday, 28 April in Sydney, the 14-member delegation of the Presidential Guard of the Hellenic Republic, which is visiting the fifth continent to participate in commemorative events on the occasion of ANZAC Day (April 25). The reception of the members…

On the Sunday of Thomas or Antipascha, 27 April 2025, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was present and joined in prayer from the Holy Altar, at the Venerable Patriarchal Church of Saint George, during the Divine Liturgy, which took place and was officiated by His Eminence Metropolitan Ioakeim of Bursa. Photographs: Nikos Papachristou vema.com.au

On Saturday, 26 April 2025, with the blessing of His Elder Metropolitan Apostolos of Derkoi, who served as Patriarchal Commissioner during the absence of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew—as he attended the funeral service of Pope Francis at the Vatican—the traditional Easter lamb roasting took place for the first time in the courtyard of the…

On a recent occasion, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew received a delegation from the historic Athonite Academy of Mount Athos. The delegation included Hieromonks Ieronymos of Simonopetra and Nikodimos of Saint Pavlos, both members of the academy’s supervisory board, along with Hieromonks Gerasimos of St Pavlos and Damaskinos of Karyes, who serves as the academy’s…

On Wednesday, 7 May 2025, at 7:00 p.m., in the Great Hall of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, Primate and Exarch of all Oceania, will be proclaimed an honorary doctor of the Department of Theology and the Department of Social Theology and Religious Studies of the School…

The work of the Holy Eparchial Synod of the Archdiocese of Australia, which convened on Thursday 24th and yesterday, 25th April 2025, under the Presidency of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, in its regular Session for the period of the Pentecostarion, has been completed. After the opening prayer, the Minutes of the previous Session…