On Thursday, February 3, 2022, Dr. Lewis Patsavos, Professor of Canon Law emeritus at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, will deliver a homily to commemorate the Feast of the Three Great Hierarchs in the Holy Cross Chapel. Dr. Patsavos was invited to speak by unanimous vote of the Holy Cross faculty, in order…
The feast of Saint Anthony the Great was celebrated by the Patriarchate on Sunday 17/30 January 2022. On this feast the Church commemorates that Saint Anthony (251-356) was a great pillar and leader of the monastic life of Egypt and lived in utmost hesychasm and ascesis, “imitating the zealot Elijah in the ways and succeeding…
Priest Habil Lipesa Omukuba from Kenya says Romania has become his second home. In an interview for a local publication in Sibiu, Turnul Sfatului (Council Tower), the Kenyan priest confessed that he saw snow for the first time during his visit to Romania. He also learned to cook sarmale (cabbage rolls). He also talked about…
On Monday, January 31, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia and Prime Minister of Greece Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, had a meeting at the Megaro Maximou (Maximos Mansion) in Athens. The meeting took place in a cordial atmosphere and during it issues of common interest were discussed, focusing on the needs of the Hellenism of Australia….
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The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, on Sunday, officiated at the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of St. Sava, in Belgrade’s Vracar district, where, in a sermon, he called on the faithful to be humble and with Love for Christ. Still in the wider region, a fire broke out on Sunday afternoon in a…
The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, on Sunday officiated at the ordination of the Bishop of Constantianis, His Grace Kosmas, at the Holy Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Cairo. The new Bishop was elected by the Sacred and Holy Synod of the Alexandria Patriarchate earlier this…
The great feast day of the Synaxis of the Three Hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, & St. John Chrysostom, was celebrated with millennia-old ecclesiastical rite and in a splendorous manner on Sunday at the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. The feast day commemorates the patron saints of letters and education. In his sermon, the…
The Church today venerates the memory of the Cyrus & John, the Holy Unmercenaries.