The Great and Holy Feast of Pentecost was celebrated with brightness in the capital of Tasmania, Hobart, at the Church of Saint George the Great Martyr. The festal Services of Matins, The Divine Liturgy and the Vespers of the Holy Spirit (Kneeling Vespers) were officiated by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, accompanied by His…

Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Today, my friends, we address the Holy Spirit most directly in our hymns and spiritual songs: Σῶσον ἡμᾶς, Παράκλητε ἀγαθέ, ψάλλοντάς σοι· Ἀλληλούϊα. Save us, O Good Paraclete, who chant to You, Alleluia! When we call the Holy Spirit, “Paraclete,” we call the Spirit by the same name that our…

On Thursday, June 9, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew received His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and participants of the second GOARCH Centennial Pilgrimage in Constantinople. “We are looking forward to receiving you again and again during this year of celebration of the Centennial of the Archdiocese,” stated His All-Holiness. While he had not been…

The Metropolitan of Arta, His Eminence Kallinikos, on Thursday officiated at a Great Vespers at the Church of St. John the Theologian in Arta, and on the occasion of the feast day of St. Luke, Bishop of Simferopol and Crimea, the Blessed Surgeon. A Holy Relic of the saint was placed for veneration by the…

Graduate students of the Logos University, a distance learning Christian ministry based in the US state of Florida, visited the Cathedral of the Ascension in Tirana on Thursday, in order to be briefed on the history of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania. The graduate students were welcomed and briefed by His Grace Bishop Astios.

A synaxis, or assembly, of Orthodox clergymen of the Diocese of Damascus and rural Damascus, held at the Patriarchal Monastery of St. George Al-Humyira, was concluded this week. The sessions, which mostly dealt with pastoral issues and the study of the Gospels, were presided over by the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His…

The Metropolitan Sotirios of Pisidia reposed in the Lord this week at the age of 93. An exodios funeral service and interment be held at the Holy Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior, in Gapyeong, Korea, the country where the reposed hierarch was the Church’s shepherd for many years.

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, celebrated his name day today, Friday, a day ahead of the annual June 11 feast day of the Apostle Bartholomew, given that tomorrow coincides with the Saturday of Souls. The celebration of His All Holiness’ name day came in the presence of the visiting Archbishop…

The Church today venerates the memory of Bartholomew and Barnabas, the Holy Apostles.