“Today, a piece of land has been officially transferred to us, where we will build a center of Georgian culture. It must be a day all Georgians have been dreaming about because we Georgians are returning to the Holy Land after 300 years of absence,” Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili told the press near the…
On the sixth Sunday of Pascha, the Sunday of the Blind Man, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia officiated at the Matins and Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the Katholikon of the Holy Monastery of St John in Perth, WA. His Eminence concelebrated the panegyric Divine Liturgy with Their Graces Bishop Aimilianos of Meloa and Bishop…
With the Blessings of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, His Grace Bishop Bartholomew of Charioupolis visited Hobart in Tasmania and attended the Battle of Crete celebrations for 2022. Proceedings commenced at the Hobart Cenotaph with a Trisagion service conducted by His Grace. Following the service, His Grace laid a wreath on behalf of the…
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth’ (Jn. 1, 14). ‘In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything…
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Χριστὸς Ἀνέστη! Christ is Risen! We have arrived at the last Sunday of the Forty Day celebration of our Lord and Savior’s Resurrection. These Forty Days, which come to a close later this week – on the feast of the Ascension – are the counterweight to the period…
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A magnificent but also solemn remembrance concert was organized by the Holy Archdiocese of Athens on the occasion of the centennial of the Asia Minor Catastrophe. The concert took place at the manor of St. Filothei, in the Plaka district of Athens, below the northern side of the Acropolis. His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos was represented…
A new article has emerged in the Turkish press detailing the destruction of the imperial Hagia Sophia Cathedral, which was reconverted into a mosque by the Islamist Erdogan government in July 2020. According to the article in the leftist newspaper Birgün, entitled “They speak of inheritance and commit murder”, “…The scandals at Hagia Sophia, which…
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, arrived this afternoon at the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos, which is located on a verdant promontory jutting out into the sea from northern Greece. On Thursday, His All Holiness opened an international conference organized by the faculty of theology of the Aristotle University…