His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew officiated on Sunday, January 23, 2022, at the Divine Liturgy at the all-sacred Patriarchal Church of St George in the Phanar. The members of the official Delegation of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, Their Eminences, Metropolitan Gregory of Cameroon, Metropolitan Ioannis of Zambia, His Grace Bishop Theophilos of Toliara…
On the day of Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 January 2022 celebrations were held in the majestic Holy Church of Saint Andrew the Apostle in Patras, Greece, commemorating the feast of the Return of the Cross of the famous and glorious Apostle Andrew the First Called, from the ‘west’, specifically from France, from Massa in…
The Serbian Church’s Bishop of Šabac & Valjevo Lavrentiy reposed in the Lord on Sunday afternoon at the age of 87. Condolences were extended by the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Porfirije, who said that in the person of the reposed hierarch were assembled all of the “most magnificent characteristics that adorn…
The latest synaxis, or assembly, from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi, with Romanian artists will be live-streamed today – at 19.30 Athens time (17.30 GMT) – by the online platform Pemptousia. Simultaneous translations from Greek into Romanian, English, French, Russian, Arabic and Georgian…
The office of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, has received a Patriarchal letter dispatched by the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, officially briefing the former over what the Alexandria Church deems as an “intrusion” by the Russian Orthodox Church into its…
The Church today venerates the memory of Xenia, Deaconess of Rome. Our righteous Mother Xenia of Rome was of a distinguished family. While her parents were preparing to wed her, she stole away secretly, taking two handmaids with her, and departed for Mylasa of Karia in Asia Minor, and there she completed her life in…
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The Internet platform Pemptousia on Saturday will again host an online archontariki from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi. The online assembly will be live-streamed by Pemptousia television beginning at 19.30 Athens time, or 17.30 GMT. Archontariki in Greek means a monastery’s guest quarters….
The northwest city of Arta today commemorates and celebrates the feast day of St. Maximus the Greek, a native of the region. On the eve of the feast day, a con-celebratory archieratical Vespers was held at a dedicated Cathedral to the saint, officiated by the Metropolitan of Cephallonia, His Eminence Demetrios, and co-officiated by the…