The Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos has posted, on its website, several recordings of Feast of Christmas hymns as part of its series of Vatopedi Psaltic (Byzantine Music) Tradition. More information or to order please visit the site www.vatopedi.gr  

In response to the request of numerous Russian-language believers from around the world, the online platform Pemptousia is organizing another online Synaxis, or assembly, from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi. The online synaxis will be hosted by Pemptousia today at 19.30 Athens time,…

The Patriarchate of Jerusalem on Monday celebrated the 16-year anniversary of the enthronement of Patriarch Theophilos to the glorious throne of the Jerusalem Patriarchate. A Doxology service was joyously held in the morning at the Catholicon of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, presided over by His Most Godly Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos, with co-celebrants being…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week continued his long-awaited pastoral visit to Athens. The Primate of the Mother Church arrived over the weekend to attend events marking the 30-year anniversary of his ascension to the Patriarchal throne. Early on Tuesday afternoon, Greek President of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou received…

Members of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece on Monday again expressed the ecclesiastical body’s standing position that the Church can only urge the faithful to follow measures imposed by the state – in order to prevent exposure to the Covid-19 virus and to receive a relevant vaccination. However, the Church…

The Church today venerates the memory of Gregory, Bishop of Agrigentum in Sicily. Today is also the feast day of Amphilochios, Bishop of Iconium.

On the feast of Holy Archangel Michael and All the Bodiless Powers of Heaven – November 21, 2021, His Grace Bishop Heruvim of Osijek-Polje and Baranja, celebrated his baptismal name. His Grace Bishop Gerasim of Gornji Karlovac officiated the Eucharistic Assemblywith the concelebration of Their Graces Bishops David of Krusevac, Jerotej ,Vicar of the Serbian…

On November 19-22, 2021, with a blessing of the acting administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and Canada, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, the clerics of the St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York, Hegumen Nikodim (Balyasnikov) and Rev. Mark Rashkov, made a pastoral visit to the newly formed community in the Mexican city of…

On Monday, 9/22 November 2021, the Patriarchate celebrated the sixteenth election and enthronement anniversary of His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos at the glorious throne of the Mother of Churches. For this joyful and important event, there was a Doxology at the Catholicon of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at 10.30…