Vatopedi publications of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, has issued an audio series featuring the hymns of the feast day of the Holy Cincture of the All-Holy Theotokos, the Virgin Mary. The edition is also available in USB drive. For more information or to order, please visit the website www.vatopedi.gr

The latest online synaxis, or assembly, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi, and Romanian faithful, will take place on Friday, August 5, beginning at 8 p.m. Athens time, or 18.00 GMT. Interpretation will be available in Romanian, English, French, Georgian. Arabic and Russian. The online synaxis…

A Cross has been erected in the courtyard of the Orthodox church in the village of Huta, near Cluj, in northwest Romania, in memory of the reposed Bishop of Deva and Hunedoara Gurie Georgiu, a native of the settlement. The reposed prelate served as the first Bishop of the Diocese of Deva and Hunedoara from…

The Patriarch of Bulgaria, His Holiness Neofyt, this week commented and condemned what he called the bloodshed occurring around the world. In a pastoral encyclical issued ahead of the great Feast Day of the Dormition of the Theotokos, the Virgin Mary, His Holiness calls on the faithful to pray, while reminding that fasting and prayer…

Today, August 2nd, marks the 30-year anniversary of the enthronement of His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios as the Primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania. Anastasios assumed the throne of the Archdiocese of Durres, Tirana and All Albania after a quarter decade ban on all religions in the Adriatic country, imposed and enforced by one…

The Church today commemorates the Translation of the Relics of Stephen, the Protomartyr.

His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, officiated at the First Paraklesis Kanon to the Most Holy Theotokos, on the afternoon of Monday, 1 August, 2022. On the morning of the same day, the feast day of Saint Solomone, of whom her holy relics are reserved at the venerable Patriarchal Church of Saint George, Phanar, His All-Holiness…

Let us give Christ to our children and defend our faith with courage, were the two central messages emphasised by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios Australia, before the faithful of the Parish of Saint Paraskevi, Blacktown in Sydney, where His Eminence officiated on Sunday morning, July 31, commemorating the memory of the Patron Saint of the…

Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, I am so very pleased to be with you once again, as I was two years ago, during this Δεκαπενταύγουστο season. We commence this evening with our first Paraklesis to the Most Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary. This little Lent that we encounter every year, leads to the little…