On Monday 2/15 February 2022 the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple. On this feast, the Church commemorates that our Lord Jesus Christ, who became incarnate through the Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary and was born in the flesh, after the completion of the forty days since His…

On February 13, 2022 – the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee and opening of the blessed Triodion period – His Eminence Archbishop Sotirios celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the historic Greek Orthodox Community of St. George the Great Martyr in Toronto; he was assisted by Protopresbyter Triantafillos Porfiris. During the memorial service, His…

At the annual meeting of the National Church Council Tuesday, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel said that the Romanian Orthodox Church is Romania’s most outstanding philanthropist in terms of social programs carried out last year. “It is essential to see the large number of works, and the sacrifice and generosity of our communities are also significant….

This week’s Sunday Sermon from the Department of Religious Education provides insight from the upcoming Gospel reading where Apostle Luke talks about the Prodigal Son who squandered his father’s inheritance on reckless living. When he returned to his father’s home, his father ran to him and went as far as throwing him a feast. Who…

I know that I express the feelings of all, when I say that we are happy to meet once again Mayor Eric Adams, a friend of our Archdiocese, and the Greek American Community. The Mayor and I first met in Brooklyn, when we marched together for justice. And I am proud to note that on…

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The pages of the Orthodoxia news agency this week host a feature and photographs of the historic and picturesque Monastery of the Panaghia Arethiotissa, known as the “Lady of the Marshes”, in the western Greece prefecture of Aetoloakarnania. The Catholicos, or main cathedral of the centuries-old monastery, is dedicated to the Nativity of Our Most…

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, this week paid a visit to Metropolitan of Atlanta Alexios at his residence, wishing him a speedy recovery from recent health troubles. His Eminence briefly visited Atlanta before returning to the Archdiocese’s See in New York City, after a pastoral visit to Florida.

The Metropolitan of Montenegro and All the Littoral, His Eminence Joanikije, this week officiated at a Divine Liturgy at the Holy Monastery of Mi-CHOL-ska PREV-laka, near Podgorica, commemorating the memory of St. Tryphon, as based on the Julian calendar. His Eminence also blessed the monastery’s vineyard, as St. Thyphon is the patron saint of gardeners…