Several office-holders, ministers, local government officials and military officers conveyed their best wishes this week to Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on the occasion of his name day, held on the feast day of Our Righteous Father Ieronymos, and during a dinner hosted by the Primate of the Church of Greece…
The Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland, His Beatitude Sawa, participated in con-celebratory services at the parish of the Dormition of the Theotokos in the Krynoczka region, where He officiated at the Divine Liturgy, held a day after the Monday of the Holy Spirit. In a sermon, His Beatitude noted that “…such feast…
Members of the Holy Eparchial Synod of the Archdiocese of America on Wednesday unanimously accepted a recommendation by the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, to immediately send a request to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the Mother Church. The Holy Eparchial Synod of the Archdiocese of America will request that its current Church charter be…
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, returns to Greece today. The Primate of the Mother Church will first visit the Athens Archdiocese this afternoon, where he will be received by the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos. His All Holiness concluded a pastoral visit to northern Greece on…
The Church today venerates the memory of Tychon the Wonderworker. Today is also the feast day of the 40 Martyrs of Rome.
On Monday, June 13, 2022, a delegation from the Order of Saint Andrew, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate met with Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov. Prime Minister Petkov welcomed the Archons for a discussion about all-important issues of international religious freedom. The Archon delegation also met in the Parliament of Bulgaria with the chairman and…
Following the repose of the venerable Metropolitan Soterios of Pisidia, on Friday June 10, 2022 at 4:15am in Seoul, the body of the deceased hierarch was transferred, per his request, to the Holy Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior in Gapyeong. Metropolitan Ambrosios of Korea, assisted by the Rev. Fr. Antonios Woo and Fr….
On Monday, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel praised the Basilica Media Centre of the Romanian Patriarchate as “a media ensemble necessary for the Romanian Orthodox Church in its mission of communicating the Gospel of Christ in the world.” “The Basilica Media Centre, born in the Church and bearing the name of the Church, addresses with priority…
On the Great and Holy Feast of Pentecost, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain presided at the Matins and celebrated the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom at the historic Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Divine Wisdom in Bayswater, London. The V. Rev. Theonas Bakalis, Archimandrite of the Ecumenical Throne and Cathedral…