His Holiness Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch, talked with Mr. Ratko Dmitrovic, Minister of Family Welfare and Demography in the Patriarchal Palace, on 11 February 2022. The Minister informed the Patriarch about the problematic demographic situation in Serbia and the Serbian people and the state’s measures to create preconditions for demographic recovery. Minister Dmitrović informed the…

His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, received His Eminence Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, envoy of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, at the patriarchal residence in Balamand. The Elder Metropolitan carried an invitation to participate in the meeting of the four Apostolic Patriarchates, proposed to be held before the Great Lent and…

For the first time in its fifty-year history, Hellenic College is offering an official minor in Philosophy, beginning this semester. “Many students have asked for such a minor to be created, and under the guidance of our new Vice President for Academic Affairs, we were able to design this program quickly,” stated Dr. Tone Svetelj,…

My Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, This surely is the Day that the Lord has made! Let us rejoice and be glad in it. As I look around this ballroom today, I see three moments in the life of our Church. I see the past – the past encompassing the One Hundred Years since…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Sunday appealed to all the parties involved to “follow a path of dialogue, in order for peace, stability and justice to prevail in Ukraine,” during a sermon after services at the Patriarchal see in the Phanar district. His All Holiness underlined that the use…

The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece is allocating hundreds of thousands of dollars to fire victims throughout Greece. Having met in Athens yesterday under the chairmanship of Archbishop Ieronymos, the Synod announced that thanks to offerings from the Archdiocese of Athens, the Metropolises of the Church of Greece, the Patriarchate of Serbia,…

Romania’s former Patriarch Teoctist Arăpașu was prayerfully remembered in the courtyard of his native house in Tocileni, Botoşani County, on his 107th birth anniversary. The parish priest of Tocileni said that Patriarch Teoctist was as close as a brother to the villagers. Dozens of locals, including relatives of the former Romanian Patriarch, took part in…

The Commencement of Australian Federal Parliament was inaugurated by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia in the Church of St Nicholas in Canberra. This was of utmost importance for Australian society, but also for the Greek community and the Holy Archdiocese of Australia since, for the first time in the history of the fifth continent,…

  In the ”Litany of Peace” of the Divine Liturgy, there follows in the third prayer a specific reference to peace, which is our main subject for today. In it, the Deacon proclaims: ”For the peace of the whole world, for the stability of the holy churches of God, and for the unity of all,…