Today, the Israeli Supreme Court issued a decision rejecting the Patriarchate’s latest attempts to annul the ruling issued against it in July 2017, through which the radical Israeli organisation, Ateret Cohanim, succeeded in expropriating the properties of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem at Jaffa Gate (Bab Al-Khalil) in Jerusalem, and this decision comes despite…

Visit of Chief of The Hellenic National Defense General Staff, General Konstantinos Floros, to The Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Jerusalem-Patriarchate

On 7th June 2022, nearly 50 individuals attended the daily vesper service in the Archdiocesan Chapel of the Annunciation as part of the Learning and Living the Liturgy Orthodox Theology and Christian Culture Lecture Series established by His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain in 2020. This gathering was the fourth hybrid (in-person…

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel has extended his blessing to all students taking national exams in Romania. “Exams are good opportunities for evaluation and intellectual maturation in a competitive society, but also necessary steps to cultivate spiritual and cultural values that increase the capacity for dialogue and communication between people,” the Patriarch of Romania encouraged students…

The Ecumenical Patriarch welcomed today, Wednesday, June 8, 2022, the President of the Republic of Montenegro Milo Đukanović at the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The meeting was also attended by Metropolitan Elder of Chalkidona Emmanuel. The President of Montenegro was welcomed by the Great Protosyncellus Theodoros, head of the Patriarchal Court, and accompanied him to the Patriarchal…

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The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Tuesday received the visiting Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, at the Mother Church’s Fanar district see. The Archbishop arrived in Constantinople to participate in the reverent celebrations of the Ecumenical Patriarch’s name day, which will be held one day earlier this year, on…

Con-celebratory events commemorating the feast day of Our Righteous Father Panagis Basias were concluded at the St. Nicholas Cathedral – Ascension, in the city of Lixouri, on the Ionian Island of Cephallonia. The resident Metropolitan, His Eminence Demetrios, officiated at the Vespers and a Holy Supplication. A litany of the saint’s Holy Icon and Relics…

The Albanian presidency this week posthumously honored artist and hagiographer Iosif Drobovik. The outgoing president of Albania, Ilir Meta, bestowed a medal of honor for the deceased artist, in recognition for his contributions to culture and the arts in the Adriatic country. The Holy Archdiocese of Tirana was represented by His Grace Bishop Astios.