A state funeral was held today in Athens for former Greek President of the Republic Christos Sartzetakis, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 92. Due to ongoing public assembly restrictions still in place due to the pandemic, the funeral service and interment at the Athens First Cemetery was conducted with only close…

European Commission Vice-President Margaritis Schinas, in a video message, praised efforts by Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, to bridge differences and build consensus among disparate groups, as he noted. Schinas, who also holds the Commission portfolio entitled “Promoting our European Way of Life”, repeated the Union’s call for the reopening of…

Today, Feb. 7, marks the 14th anniversary of the election of His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos II to the Throne of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece. Ieronymos, born Ioannis Liapis, was elected as the new Archbishop by members of the Church of Greece’s Holy Synod, elevated from Metropolitan of Thebes and Livadia. Over the course…

The Church today venerates the memory of Parthenios, Bishop of Lampsakos. Today is also the feast day of Luke, the Righteous of Greece.

1st Digital Fellowship with Elder Ephraim Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi, Mount Athos and Youth and Religious Teachers from the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada Saturday the 12th of February 2022 at 20:00 Greek time (13:00 EST) Dear colleagues We are writing to inform you about the 1st Digital Fellowship with Elder Ephraim…

Tickets are now available for the lauded Man of God film about the 20th-century Holy Hierarch and wonderworker St. Nektarios of Aegina. The film will be shown at 800 theaters throughout the U.S. for one night only, on March 21. Find a theater near you and purchase tickets from Fathom Events. For group ticketing (25+…

The Cretan Association of Sydney and NSW held its annual Agiasmo and Cutting of the Vasilopita event at Ashbury Senior Citizen’s Centre on Friday, February 4. Due to COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, the event was the first time the members and dancing groups of the Cretan Association were able to gather together in eight months….

My Beloved Community of Hellenic College and Holy Cross, Tonight, we gather at this Service of Great Vespers in order to implore God’s blessing upon the Spring Term of classes here at our Institution of Higher Learning and Preparation for the Holy Priesthood. In an alternate Apolytikion of Saint Photios, the great Patriarch of Constantinople,…

His first Divine Liturgy as Archbishop of Crete – and in fact in a many-priestly Divine Liturgy- was celebrated this yesterdar , Sunday 6th February on the 17th Sunday of Matthew, by His Eminence Archbishop Evgenios of Crete, who was enthroned on Saturday the 5th of February. In the Holy Metropolitan Church of Saint Minas,…