n Palm Sunday, the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem is celebrated, where the people welcomed him holding a palm (palm branches). In remembrance of this event, all the Holy Church are decorated with palm fronds on this day, while blessings are read over the palm crosses and offered to the faithful, of which…

Beloved in Christ, Today, the Assembly of the Orthodox celebrates with great joy and thanksgiving, as we behold our King – the King of Kings – coming to us, to the Holy City of Jerusalem, to conquer death, the greatest enemy of all. The Prophet Zechariah saw this moment centuries before it ever happened and…

Holy Tuesday 19/04 & Holy Wednesday 20/04 | 20.30 Tickets presale has started, there are still available tickets! Book yours now at bit.ly/35GMZHu During the Holy Week, the audience of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center will have the opportunity to attend two musical evenings of mesmerizing serenity, as part of the Cosmos concert series….

The Church today venerates the memory of Crescens the Martyr.

The Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi, in cooperation with the University of Crete Publications, has unveiled a series of Holy and Great Easter Week hymns, available on CD and USB. The hymns are chanted by Vatopedi fathers. For more information and orders please visit the website vatopedi.gr. https://www.vatopedi.gr/ekdoseis/mousikes-ekdosis-psifiaki-diski-cd-rom/  

The Patriarchal and Stavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist, in Essex, England, and the online platform Pemptousia, on Thursday hosted the latest digital archontariki with the Elder Archimandrite Petros, the Abbot of the Monastery. The Elder Petros spoke on the theme of the prophetic character of Palm Sunday. Archontariki in Greek means a monastery’s…

The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, under the chairmanship of Bulgarian Patriarch His Holiness Neophyte, this week announced that the Metropolitan of Stara Zagora, His Eminence Kyprian, has been released from his clerical duty of ensuring the spiritual care of Orthodox Bulgarians in parishes in Turkey.

Church bells rang out joyously on Friday in a corner of the large island of Crete with the announcement, by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, of the canonization of reposed Elder Evgenios Saridakis. Emotions ran high in the Irakleio prefecture village of Ethi-A, located at an altitude of 740 meters, where the Mother Church’s latest…

A delegation of Ecumenical Patriarchate hierarchs was received in Athens on Thursday by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at his Maximos Mansion office. The delegation was headed by the Elder Metropolitan of Chalcedon, His Eminence Emmanuel, and the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s new director of its representation office in Athens, the Metropolitan of Leao-DI-cea, His Eminence Theo-DO-ritos….