Beloved Archons, Dear Host Parish of Archangel Michael, Our Panelists, Sergei Chapnin and George Demacopoulos, Dear Friends, This evening’s content: Understanding the Role of the Moscow Patriarchate in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, is a sorrowful and, indeed, painful subject for us all. This unjust, fratricidal war must not be laid at the feet of…

On Sunday of the Holy Cross, March 27, 2022, His Grace Bishop Athenagoras of Nazianzos presided over the Contrition Vespers at Zoodohos Peghe Church in Bronx, New York, representing His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America. His Grace was joined by the Archdiocesan Chancellor Fr. Nektarios Papazafiropulos, Chancellor of the Archdiocesan District Fr. Elias Villis, Proestamenos…

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The Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Aghios Vlasios, His Eminence Ierotheos, on the Fourth Sunday of Lent officiated at the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of St. Paraskevi, in the western coastal town of Amfilochia. His Eminence, who is the Church of Greece’s locum tenens for the Holy Metropolis of Aetolia and Akarnania, also conducted a…

The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, officiated at the solemn services on the Fourth Sunday of Lent at the Cathedral of the Resurrection, in the Sydney suburb of Kogarah, accompanied by several other Hierarchs of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. Addressing the congregants, Archbishop Makarios referred to the virtues of faith, prayer, and…

The Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Most Godly Beatitude Theophilos III, on Sunday received the visiting chief of the Hellenic Air Force General Staff, Lt.-Gen. Themistoklis Bourolias, and his spouse at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate’s see. His Most Godly Beatitude briefed the top Greek military officer on developments in the region, including an ongoing incident involving…

The ethnic Greek community of Stavrodromi of Constantinople on Sunday honored the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on the occasion of the 30-year anniversary of his enthronement as the Primate of the Mother Church. A humble monument was unveiled to commemorate the occasion in the courtyard of the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Taksim…

The Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece convened on Monday for its regular sessions of the month of April 2022. The meetings will convene until Wednesday, and are the last before Holy & Great Easter this month, as Easter Sunday falls on April 24.  

Ukraine has accused Russian forces of committing war crimes and a “massacre” in the town of Bucha, which lies 30 kilometers northwest of the capital of Kiev, after the bodies of several unarmed Ukrainian civilians and mass graves were found on Sunday. Bodies of civilians – many with bound hands and close-range gunshot wounds –…