The Church today venerates Makarios the Great of Egypt, as well as Makarios of Alexandria, two renowned ascetics of the early Christian period. Today is also the feast day of Mark, Bishop of Ephesus.

Georgian cultural centre will be launched on a plot of land gifted by Jordan’s royal family to the country, with the location near the baptism site of Jesus Christ marking a “return to the holy land”, prime minister Irakli Garibashvili said on Wednesday. Garibashvili revealed the news following a service at Tbilisi’s Holy Trinity Cathedral,…

The Russian version of the book entitled Ukrainskiy tserkovniy vopros (Ukrainian church issue) has come out. It continues a series of books devoted to the Ukrainian schism. Its author is Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus, one of the most authoritative hierarchs of the Greek Orthodox Church, an ardent defender of the interests of the Church, purity…

My Beloved Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Here at the commencement of the New Year of 2022 – which is the Centennial of our Greek Orthodox Church of America, we have once again celebrated the Great Feast of the Epiphany. The solemnities around the Feast of the Lord’s Baptism always include the Blessing of the…

Saint Augustine, FL: Maintaining the traditions and customs of the first Greek settlers that arrived on the American continent, St. Photios National Shrine hosted its Third Annual Vasilopita Celebration on Sunday, January 16, 2022 at the St. Photios Shrine in St. Augustine, Florida. During this time of pandemic, the celebration was greatly curtailed in the…

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Today marks the one-year anniversary of the repose in the Lord of the Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Stavrovouni, Archimandrite Athanasios. The reposed elder was a much beloved and respected hieromonk on the island republic, serving for some 40 years as the monastery’s hegumen, or abbot. A memorial service for the reposed elder was…

The Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa is preparing to officially notify and brief the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, via a Patriarchal letter by the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, over what the latter condemns as an “intrusion” by the Moscow Patriarchate into the Alexandria Patriarchate’s…

The Church today venerates Athanasios the Great and Cyril, Patriarchs of Alexandria. The Church celebrates the memory of these two Great ecclesiastical Fathers and Archbishops of Alexandria, as Athanasius the Great was a pioneer against the heresy of Arianism, and St. Cyril, a pioneer against Nestorianism. A festal Vespers in memory of Athanasios the Great,…