The Feast of Pentecost was celebrated on Sunday, May 30/ June 12, 2022, at the Patriarchate. On this feast, the whole Church and especially the Church of Jerusalem commemorates in joy, gleefulness and doxology that fifty days after the Lord’s Resurrection, and ten days after the Ascension, the Lord, Who had ascended in the heavens…

His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia presented His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew with a commemorative album dedicated to the Patriarchal visit to Stockholm that took place in Fall 2019. Metropolitan Cleopas, who had an audience with His All-Holiness on Thursday, June 9, 2022, informed him of the ministry taking place in the…

In the Church of Protatos in Karyes the bells have been ringing joyfully since this morning for the change of the Supervisory Committee (Holy Epistasia) that takes place every year on this day. Fr. George Vatopedinos handed over to Fr. Christophoros from the Holy Monastery of Iviron, while Fr. Theophilos from the Monastery of Pantokrator,…

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…