Patriarch John X, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East met with His Excellency Sayyid Badr Albusaidi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Oman. A delegation accompanied His Beatitude including Metropolitan Ghattas Hazim (Archdiocese of Baghdad, Kuwait and Dependencies), Metropolitan Efraim Malouli (Archdiocese of Aleppo, Alexandretta and Dependencies) and Archimandrite Dimitri…

“On this Memorial Day, as we remember those who gave their lives defending our Nation, let us also not forget our brothers and sisters in Ukraine, who are yet fighting and dying while defending theirs” stressed Archbishop Elpidophoros of America for the celebration of Memorial Day. On this Memorial Day, as we remember those who…

The online platform Pemptousia on Wednesday will livestream an interdisciplinary one-day seminar entitled “Truth and Deception: The Legacy of Fr. Antonios Alevizopoulos”, which will be held at the Supreme Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens. The event will begin with a Divine Liturgy at 7:30 a.m. Athens time. Pemptousia TV is the communication sponsor of the seminar.

A memorial service for renowned Metropolitan Paleon Patron Germanos, who raised the banner of revolution in March 1821 to mark the commencement of the Greek War of Independence in the Peloponnese, was held at the historic Monastery of St. Lavra on Monday, May 30, the 196th anniversary of the hierarch’s repose in the Lord. The…

The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, on Sunday officiated at the consecration of the new offices and premises of the Archdiocese district of Western Australia, in the city of Perth, as well as facilities of the Vasileiada Organization. More than 200 people attended the event.

Exact replicas of two well-known Mount Athos Icons of the Panaghia, the Virgin Mary, have been conveyed to the under-construction Cathedral of St. Sava, in the Croatian port city of Split. The Holy Icons were received during a solemn ceremony by the Bishop of Dalmatia, His Grace Nikodim, who was joined by clergy and Orthodox…

The Archbishop of Durres, Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, speaking at a youth conference at the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Resurrection in the Albanian capital this week, called on young people to never compromise with what he called spiritual decline. The conference is entitled “Become Disciples of Christ – Fishers of Men”.

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Tuesday continued his pastoral visit to northern Greece, where in the morning he was declared an honorary citizen of the municipality of Thermaikos and awarded the key to the city. On Monday afternoon, His All Holiness attended events commemorating the centennial of the abominable…

The Church today venerates the memory of Hermias the Martyr at Comana.