European Commission’s Vice-President, Margaritis Schinas, paid an official visit to the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos over the weekend, at the head of a Commission delegation. In his statements, Schinas underlined that “…Orthodoxy is love and love is stronger than war. He added that the war in Ukraine cannot be the measure of our…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Sunday officiated at the annual memorial service at the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Closed Gate, the place where national martyr Patriarch Gregory V was hanged by the Ottoman Turks on April 10, 1821, based on the Julian calendar. His All Holiness was accompanied by clergy of…

Greece’s president of the republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, over the weekend concluded a visit to the Greek-speaking villages of Apulia, in the Salento region of southern Italy Sakellaropoulou attended festivities marking the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Union of Communities of Grecia Salentina, and following an invitation by the president of the Union. The…

The Greek government on Monday essentially announced an easing of Covid-19-related measures immediately after Easter Sunday, on April 24. Nevertheless, the relevant health minister warned that the pandemic is still prevalent, even after Easter, in the month of May.  

  The Church today venerates the memory of Hieromartyr Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum, the first Christian of Asia Minor, according to the Apostle Paul.

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On the morning of the Fifth Sunday of Lent, April 10, 2022, a day on which the Church honours the memory of Saint Mary of Egypt, His Grace Bishop Bartholomew of Charioupolis presided at the Orthros and the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Church of the Archangels in Albury, NSW, assisted by Father Platon Derlis,…

On Saturday the 9th April the last lecture in the series of Talks ‘Journey to Pascha 2022’, took place at the Archdiocesan Church of Saint Eustathios, South Melbourne. The speaker, Basilios Psilacos, Associate Lecturer in Worship and Liturgy, and Instructor in Byzantine Ecclesiastical Music at the Theological College of St Andrew spoke about the Divine…

The Great Feast Day of the Annunciation of the Theotokos, as based on the Julian calendar, was solemnly commemorated on Thursday at the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi – at the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos. The Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Hilandar, the Elder Archimandrite Methodios, officiated at the Holy Vigil,…