London, August 24th 2022 – “Man of God”, the award-winning box office hit that depicts the inspiring life of the widely venerated Greek Orthodox saint, Saint Nektarios of Aegina, written and directed by Yelena Popovic starring Hellenic Academy Award winner Aris Servetalis (“The Waiter”), Alexander Petrov (Luc Besson’s “Anna”) and Golden Globe winner Mickey Rourke…

This year’s ORTHODOX ARTS FESTIVAL 2022 will take place online from September 17th to October 17th of 2022. The Festival is considered to be the World’s biggest Online International Festival of Orthodox Christian Artists. The Festival will be the first to integrate High-Quality 3D technology on its numerous Virtual Reality Galleries (they are the finest…

Dearly Beloved Brothers & Sisters in Christ, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mrs. Yelena Popovic, the screenwriter and director of the truly seminal film “Man of God,” which we will be blessed to watch together, along with her husband Mr. Alexandros Potter. This film is a cinematographic tribute to the final…

A street in Limenaria Thassos was named in honour of His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew On the afternoon of Sunday, September 4, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Metropolitan Epiphanius of Kiev and all Ukraine Epiphanius, together with the bishops and the clergy, made a pilgrimage to the Dormition of the Theotokos Monastery on the island of…

With the blessing of his Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, who was represented by the Chancellor of our Holy Archdiocese, the Very Reverend Fr Christophoros Krikelis, the Orthodox Ladies Group of the Greek Orthodox Christian Society performed the ninth concert in its series honouring of the 200th anniversary of the 1821 Greek Revolution on Saturday…

The Students of the Greek Orthodox College of St John, Preston, in Melbourne, celebrated on Thursday, 1st September 2022, the beginning of Indictus, which constitutes the ecclesiastical New Year, while it is also dedicated, by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, in prayer for the protection of the natural environment. Students of the College on Thursday morning attended…

The regional city of Port Augusta is home to the Parish of St John the Baptist. One of the larger regional towns in South Australia (with around 14,000 residents), Port Augusta was also once home to a sizeable Greek community who built and maintained the Parish. With less than a dozen Orthodox remaining in the…

Distinguished organizers and delegates, Beloved participants and stewards of the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, Dear friends, brothers and sisters, One of the core beliefs and central teachings of Christianity through the centuries is the conviction that the light of Christ shines more brightly than any darkness in our hearts and in…

Your Eminences, Your Excellencies and Graces, Dear Fathers, Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Welcome to this meeting of the Orthodox Family during the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches. It is a true blessing and privilege to come together as representatives of our Mother Churches bearing witness to our historical spiritual traditions…