EW YORK – On Tuesday, May 31, 2022, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros welcomed to the Archdiocese the Minister of Defense of Cyprus, Mr. Charalambos Petrides. After the meeting, His Eminence said, “I was delighted and honored to meet today with the Defense Minister of the Republic of Cyprus, the Honorable Charalambos Petrides. We discussed a…

The protopsaltis of the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest asked his Facebook followers to remember his family in prayer as they were waiting for confirmation of a difficult diagnosis for Irene, the youngest of the family’s children. On May 18, Archdeacon Mihail Bucă announced that the little girl had been confirmed with acute myeloblastic leukaemia, and…

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Patriarch John X, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East met with His Excellency Sayyid Badr Albusaidi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Oman. A delegation accompanied His Beatitude including Metropolitan Ghattas Hazim (Archdiocese of Baghdad, Kuwait and Dependencies), Metropolitan Efraim Malouli (Archdiocese of Aleppo, Alexandretta and Dependencies) and Archimandrite Dimitri…

“On this Memorial Day, as we remember those who gave their lives defending our Nation, let us also not forget our brothers and sisters in Ukraine, who are yet fighting and dying while defending theirs” stressed Archbishop Elpidophoros of America for the celebration of Memorial Day. On this Memorial Day, as we remember those who…

The online platform Pemptousia on Wednesday will livestream an interdisciplinary one-day seminar entitled “Truth and Deception: The Legacy of Fr. Antonios Alevizopoulos”, which will be held at the Supreme Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens. The event will begin with a Divine Liturgy at 7:30 a.m. Athens time. Pemptousia TV is the communication sponsor of the seminar.

A memorial service for renowned Metropolitan Paleon Patron Germanos, who raised the banner of revolution in March 1821 to mark the commencement of the Greek War of Independence in the Peloponnese, was held at the historic Monastery of St. Lavra on Monday, May 30, the 196th anniversary of the hierarch’s repose in the Lord. The…

The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, on Sunday officiated at the consecration of the new offices and premises of the Archdiocese district of Western Australia, in the city of Perth, as well as facilities of the Vasileiada Organization. More than 200 people attended the event.

Exact replicas of two well-known Mount Athos Icons of the Panaghia, the Virgin Mary, have been conveyed to the under-construction Cathedral of St. Sava, in the Croatian port city of Split. The Holy Icons were received during a solemn ceremony by the Bishop of Dalmatia, His Grace Nikodim, who was joined by clergy and Orthodox…