Architect Buse Ceren Gul is on a mission: restore a 166-year-old Greek Orthodox church that was long a beacon of her hometown’s multicultural past. She believes restoring the church left mostly in ruins by the earthquakes in southern Turkey three years ago will help locals reconnect to their city. The magnitude 7.8 earthquake on 6…

His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem, together with the Council of Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem, today received Consuls General and members of the diplomatic corps at the headquarters of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. During the meeting, His Beatitude addressed the urgent moral responsibilities confronting the land and its people. In…

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America is pleased to announce that His Beatitude Archbishop Ioan of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania will be visiting the United States of America. At the invitation of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, His Beatitude will offer the keynote address at the International Conference organized by the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at…

Addressing the Leadership 100 Conference in Phoenix, the Archbishop outlined two transformative goals and spoke forcefully against far-right extremism in Orthodox Christianity His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America laid out a sweeping vision for the future of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese during a question-and-answer session at the 35th Annual Conference of the Archbishop Iakovos Leadership…

With the cloudy sky of Korea, the snowy city of Seoul and the thermometer ranging between -15 to -17 degrees Celsius, the camp officials began to welcome elementary, middle, and high school students to the Camp facilities in the city of Chuncheon. During the few days of the winter School vacation,  the goal was to…

On Wednesday, 4 February 2026, the Patriarchate of Alexandria welcomed two groups of pilgrims from Greece and Germany at the Patriarchal See in Alexandria with profound spiritual joy. The pilgrims were undertaking a journey to the holy sites of Orthodoxy in Egypt. The first group came from the Holy Church of Saint Nicholas of Philopappou…

The memory of Saint Arsenios of Paros was celebrated with great solemnity over the two-day period of 30 and 31 January 2026 at the Holy Monastery of Christou Dasous – Saint Arsenios, on Paros. On the eve of the feast, in the afternoon, Festal Vespers were celebrated, presided over by His Grace Bishop Bartholomew of…

On Monday, the 20th of January / 2nd of February 2026, the Patriarchate celebrated the memory of our Father among the Saints Euthymios the Great at the Holy Monastery dedicated to his name, adjoining the Holy Monastery of Our Lady of Sayda Naya, to the north of the Old City of Jerusalem. On this feast,…

On Sunday, 1 February 2026, His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa presided over the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Theotokos in Panama City. Concelebrating at the Patriarchal Divine Liturgy were His Eminence Metropolitan George of Guinea; Their Graces, The Bishops of the Holy Metropolis…