The Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi has unveiled new audio series featuring the hymns from the Suppliant Canon of the Wonder-working Icon of the Panaghia Pantanassis, as chanted by a choir of Vatopedi Fathers. The text of the paraklissis, or supplication, is a poem by reposed Elder Joseph of Vatopedi, and chanted under Athonite…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, will travel to the coastal town Herceg Novi over the weekend in order to attend events marking the 640th anniversary of its establishment, and on the occasion of the translation of the Holy Relics St. Stephen, the first martyr of Christianity, as based on the Julian calendar. The…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, accompanied by Bishop Paisios of Xanthoupolis and members of the Greek Orthodox Diaspora, on Tuesday morning visited the fire brigade headquarters of the Metropolitan Municipality of Constantinople, where he was received by the department’s leadership. The Ecumenical Patriarch expressed the sincere gratitude of the Church…

The Church today venerates the memory of Laurence the Holy Martyr & Archdeacon of Rome

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His Eminence Archbishop Calinic of Argeș and Muscel celebrated the Divine Liturgy at Robaia Monastery on Sunday’s feast day of Saint Paphnutius the Iconographer. The previous day, the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord marked the fifth anniversary of the proclamation of the Saint’s canonization. “How can God not protect this country with so…

The Metropolitan Synod of the Metropolis of Bessarabia held a meeting in Chișinău on July 28, 2022. The meeting was chaired by His Eminence Metropolitan Petru of Bessarabia and was attended by Bishops Antonie of Bălți and Veniamin of Southern Bessarabia. The activity of the Metropolis concerning the situation in Ukraine was presented. The Synod…

The light that appeared on Mount Tabor at the Saviour’s Transfiguration “is the light that every Christian enlightened at baptism by water and the Holy Spirit seeks,” Patriarch Daniel said Saturday. Fruit of prayer and a symbol of hesychasm, this light “is given to those who pray much and live a Christian life of fasting,…

On Sunday 7th August 2022, His Grace Bishop Iakovos of Claudiopolis presided during Matins and celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of Holy Transfiguration in Coventry. Concelebrating with His Grace Biahop Iakovos was the Priest-in-charge Protopresbyter Theodoros Polyviou and Deacons Panteleimon Maxfield and Konstantinos Mamouris. His Excellency Andreas Kakouris, the High Commissioner of Cyprus,…