On Sunday, 3rd August 2025, the Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain rejoiced as Deacon Charalambos Clark was ordained to the Holy Priesthood by His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas at the Church of Christ the Saviour in Woolwich. Concelebrating with His Eminence were the Revd Protopresbyter Konstantinos Garibaldinos, Vicar General; the Revd Presbyter Thomas Koutroukis, Priest-in-charge;…

H.E. Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden’s Homily on the 8th Sunday of Matthew (The Miracle of the Five Loaves) St. George Cathedral of Stockholm Sunday, August 3, 2025 Dearly Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Today, the Holy Gospel presents us with one of the most beloved miracles of our Lord; the feeding of the five…

The Metropolitan of Florina, Prespa and Eordaia has issued a public warning to Orthodox Christians about the activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses, joining several other Greek bishops who have sounded similar alarms in recent months. In an official statement released on the feast day of the Transfiguration of Christ, His Eminence Metropolitan Irenaeus cautioned that the…

The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church has issued a strongly worded statement warning Bulgarian citizens against what it calls “pagan neo-Hindu propaganda with false Christian elements” being spread by touring gurus and self-proclaimed spiritual teachers. In the statement published yesterday, the Church leadership expresses concern about religious groups that “interweave their pagan beliefs…

On Monday, 4 August 2025, the newly appointed head of the U.S. Consulate General in Constantinople, Michael Kidwell, paid an official visit to the Seat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate at the Phanar. Kidwell was warmly received by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, with whom he discussed matters concerning the life and mission of the Mother…

The Great Feast of the Transfiguration of our Saviour Jesus Christ was celebrated with ecclesiastical splendour and magnificence in Thomastown, Melbourne. In the Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, celebrated the Divine Liturgy on Wednesday morning, 6 August 2025, with the concelebration of the local Bishop of Chora,…

Following the invitation of Archbishop of Mount Sinai and Raithu, His Eminence Damianos to His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, with which he was asked, according to the existing ecclesiastical status, to mediate and address the critical matter of the Holy Monastery of Sinai, His Beatitude responded positively and decided that it is appropriate…

The patron saint of the Orthodox Volunteer Corps (OVC), an organization that places twentysomethings in lines of volunteerism in Pittsburgh and Boston, is Mother Maria of Paris—a Russian poet, nun, and member of the Parisian resistance who was killed in the Holocaust and later canonized as a saint by the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Her life of…

An attempted arson incident occurred on Monday evening, 4 August 2025, at the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, shortly after a prayer service. According to protothema.gr, an unidentified man wearing a red cap and shorts approached the area behind the lectern and set fire to some papers, which then ignited part of a carpet inside the…