Bishop Joanikije: Владика Јоаникије: We confess the beauty of God equally by singing and painting icons and everything we do in our worship services. On the first week of the Great Lent – Sunday of Orthodoxy, 21 March 2021, His Grace Bishop of Budimlje-Niksic and Administrator of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral Kyr…

His Grace Bishop Fotije of Zvornik-Tuzla celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of Holy Prophet Elijah in Janja on Sunday of Orthodoxy, 21 March 2021. The Bishop was concelebrated by protopresbyter-staurophors Miodrag Gavric and Cviko Mojic, retired parish priests of Bijeljina; archpriest Aleksandar Tesic, diocesan dean of Ugljevik and Janja; protodeacon Bogdan Stjepanovic…

March 21, His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas, together with Fr. Nick Kotsis and the Greek community surrounding the town of Ypsilanti, Michigan commemorated the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution. The town is proudly named after Greek revolutionary, Demetrios Ypsilantis. Goarch.org  

Governor of Washington, Jay Inslee, issues Greek Independence Day proclamation on the 15th of March, 2021. Goarch.org

On Saturday, March 13, 2021 the Order of AHEPA presented a unique show for the ages. In Astoria, at the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York’s Stathakion Center, AHEPA paid homage to the American support to the Greek War of Independence. Many fundraisers were made during the war to assist the Greek cause….

Introducing the newest podcast series: Spotlight on Orthodox Families, from the GOA Center for Family Care. Once a month Marianna McMullen and Despina Ellis will be interviewing couples from around the country in order to share the stories and lives of Orthodox families as a source of support and inspiration to others. In this first…

New York, NY – Archimandrite Athenagoras Ziliaskopoulos was appointed the Spiritual Advisor to the Greek Orthodox Ladies Philoptochos Society of America by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America. Archimandrite Athenagoras spent much of his early life between Greece and Germany. He spent his early adulthood on Mount Athos as a monastic. For over twenty years,…

The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops, in partnership with Bread for the World, will be hosting a three-part Lenten webinar series on “Hunger & the Public Good: Restoring the World by Living the Faith.” This series explores Orthodox Christian perspectives on the intersections between Hunger and the Environment, Hunger and Racial Equity, and Hunger and…

Cypriot MEP Costas Mavrides, speaking this week to the Orthodoxia news agency ahead of the EU Summit meeting, referred to the Union’s relations with increasingly belligerent Turkey, as well as the continued vandalism and desecration against Orthodox places of worship and cultural sites in occupied Cyprus. Mavrides reminded that “hundreds” of Greek Orthodox churches, monasteries…