On Sunday, July 17, Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the 4th Ecumenical Cou ncil in Chalcedon and commemoration of Saint Marina, in the venerable Patriarchal Church of Saint George in Phanar, a Divine Liturgy was celebrated by the officiating Archimandrite Very Rev. Fr Grigorios Fragakis, Chief Secretary of the Sacred and Holy Synod of…

My Beloved Christians, We come together this morning – in this Church of the Holy Cross – to remind ourselves of the sacrifice of others, of the lives that were lost, and the struggle that continues. I speak, of course, of our memorial and commemoration of the illegal invasion of Cyprus by Turkey that happened…

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Today marks the 48th anniversary of a coup on the island of Cyprus against Archbishop Makarios and his democratically elected government. The coup was engineered by the military junta then ruling Greece with an iron fist, and aimed to neutralize, and even assassinate Archbishop Makarios, in order to install a puppet regime. The coup, its…

The Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, His Eminence Nikitas, on Wednesday received the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cyprus, Ioannis Kousoulides, at the Archdiocese headquarters in London. Kousoulides was accompanied by Andreas Kakouris, the High Commissioner of Cyprus to the United Kingdom. Following a brief tour of the Archdiocese chapel and a prayer,…

The Serbian Orthodox Church’s Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral this week issued a stern announcement condemning the latest insolent and intolerant claims by the country’s president, Milo Đukanović, against the Church. The Church underlined that “…Mr. Đukanović’s views are soaked in communist methods reminiscent of another era, which he refuses to abandon, while his…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Thursday, the last day of his pastoral visit northwest Greece, visited the historic mountainous town of Metsovo. His All Holiness was warmly welcomed by municipal leaders, clerics and local residents, with horse riders dressed in traditional garb accompanying the vehicle carrying the Ecumenical Patriarch…

A majority of deputies in Greece’s 300-member parliament on Thursday evening ratified a draft law that includes a provision for the filling of vacant spots for Orthodox clerics in the country – a development that resolves an open issue between Church and state dating to 1945. The specific provisions, passed by 189 deputies, deal with…

The Church today venerates the memory of Julitta and Kyrikos, the Martyrs. Today is also the feast day of Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles of Kiev.