Archbishop Elpidophoros of America paid a visit to the Ecumenical Patriarchate and had a meeting with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Tuesday, June 8, 2022. The Archbishop stressed via a post on his social media “once again, we are at the beating heart of Orthodoxy, the Ecumenical Patriarchate, here where it all began 100 years…

An excursion to the Theological School of Halki was held today, Tuesday, June 7, 2022, by the children of the Holy Trinity Kindergarten Creative Workshop, accompanied by their parents and teachers. The children received the blessing of the Abbot, Bishop Kassianos of Aravissos, took a tour of the School, and enjoyed their meal in its…

On Tuesday, June 7, the Archdiocesan Council of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia met, under the chairmanship of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, in Sydney. The President and the members of the Archdiocesan Council expressed their infinite gratitude and their deepest respect to His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the Mother Church for their…

Dallas, Texas – The Department of Religious Education of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, is pleased to announce the 38th Annual St. John Chrysostom Oratorical Festival National Finalists. They competed on Saturday, June 4th, 2022, at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Dallas. This year’s…

On Sunday, June 5, 2022 His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America served as a Grand Marshal of the New York City Greek Independence Day Parade, his first since his enthronement in 2019. Organized by the Federation of Hellenic American Societies of Greater NY, the parade returned on a warm and sunny afternoon after two years…

The Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, His Eminence Efstathios, the locum tenens of the Metropolis of Gortyna and Megalopolis, officiated at the first con-celebratory Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of St. Haralambos in the historic Arcadia town of Dimitsana, on the occasion of the feast day of Hieromartyr Joseph, Archbishop of Thessaloniki. Archbishop Joseph was…

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The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on Tuesday announced that His Eminence Hilarion has been replaced from his post as chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department of External Church Relations, as a member of the Holy Synod as well as Metropolitan of Volokolamsk. In an announcement following a regular session of the Holy Synod,…

The Metropolitan of Sweden & All Scandinavia, His Eminence Cleopas, over the weekend concluded his sixth pastoral tour of Iceland, on the occasion of the feast day of St. Bartholomew the Apostle, the curator and patron saint of the Orthodox parish in Reykjavik. The latter was founded in April 2019, following the Patriarchal visit of Ecumenical Patriarch…