The Church today venerates the memory of Polycarp, the Holy Martyr & Bishop of Smyrna.  

His Eminence Metropolitan Jonah of Kamapala and All Uganda of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, who enjoyed respect throughout the Orthodox Church, reposed in the Lord last year in September. He was laid to rest later that month at St. Nicholas Cathedral in the Namungonna neighborhood of Kampala. At its January session, the Alexandrian Holy Synod…

Archbishop Elpidophoros of America will visit the city of Rhodopes in Greece. According to the program announced by the Holy Diocese of Maronia and Komotini on Wednesday, March 2, 2022, at 17:00, there will be a Doxology for his reception. In particular, the Doxology will be performed at the Holy Cathedral of the Annunciation of…

On Saturday afternoon, February 19, 2022, Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden, delivered an online presentation entitled “Missionary work in the Northern Lands” at a Catechetical Conference hosted by the Church of Greece’s missionary arm Apostoliki Diakonia. Fr. Bartholomew Iatridis, Parish Priest of the St. George Cathedral of Stockholm, participated. Metropolitan Cleopas began his presentation by thanking…

On February 19 -20, 2022, His Grace Bishop Apostolos of Medeia visited the parish of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Wilmington, Delaware as the parish hosted their Annual GOYA Basketball Tournament attended by over 300 GOYAns from 9 area parishes. goarch.org

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The Metropolitan of Montenegro and All the Littoral, His Eminence Joanikije, on Monday officiated at a Divine Liturgy before an exodios funeral service for the reposed Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Kirilovac, Archimandrite Joel. His Eminence was joined by clerics, monks and many of the spiritual offspring of the reposed Elder for the funeral…

Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority this week shelved a controversial plan to expand a national park onto church-owned lands, including the Mount of Olives, in east Jerusalem, amid sharp opposition by the heads of Churches in Jerusalem, who denounced the plan as a “…premeditated attack on the Christians in the Holy Land.” According to a…

The visiting Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, on Monday met with the Russian ambassador to Israel, Anatoli Viktarov, at the seat of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem. His Eminence Hilarion, who is also the chairman of the chairman of the Department of External Church Relations, thanked the ambassador for the active cooperation between…