On Sunday, June 5, 2022 His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America served as a Grand Marshal of the New York City Greek Independence Day Parade, his first since his enthronement in 2019. Organized by the Federation of Hellenic American Societies of Greater NY, the parade returned on a warm and sunny afternoon after two years…

The Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, His Eminence Efstathios, the locum tenens of the Metropolis of Gortyna and Megalopolis, officiated at the first con-celebratory Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of St. Haralambos in the historic Arcadia town of Dimitsana, on the occasion of the feast day of Hieromartyr Joseph, Archbishop of Thessaloniki. Archbishop Joseph was…

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The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on Tuesday announced that His Eminence Hilarion has been replaced from his post as chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department of External Church Relations, as a member of the Holy Synod as well as Metropolitan of Volokolamsk. In an announcement following a regular session of the Holy Synod,…

The Metropolitan of Sweden & All Scandinavia, His Eminence Cleopas, over the weekend concluded his sixth pastoral tour of Iceland, on the occasion of the feast day of St. Bartholomew the Apostle, the curator and patron saint of the Orthodox parish in Reykjavik. The latter was founded in April 2019, following the Patriarchal visit of Ecumenical Patriarch…

The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X, this week met at the Patriarchal Monastery of St. George Al-Humeyra with Orthodox clergymen of Diocese of Damascus and the rural Damascus region. The meetings, which will last until Thursday, were opened with a Vespers, officiated by Patriarch John. His Beatitude underlined the…

The Archbishopric of Ohrid this week provided clarifications over the volition and right of the Serbian Orthodox Church to extend the Tomos – or Patriarchal charter – of Autocephaly. In an announcement after a third archieratical Divine Liturgy celebrated on Sunday, in Belgrade, by the Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, and the Archbishop of…

A holy site of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem was once again targeted by extremists, with reports on Monday stating that a group of roughly 50 Israeli religious extremists broke through a gate and railing and forced their way into the chapel on the Hill of St. Zion. According to a statement issued by the Patriarchate,…

The Church today venerates the memory of Our Righteous Father Panagis Basias.