On Sunday 30th March 2025, the Fourth Sunday of Lent (St John Climacus), His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of St John the Baptist in Haringey, North London. Concelebrating with His Eminence were the Very Revd Archimandrite Apostolos Trifyllis and the Revd Presbyter Konstantinos Mamouris,…
On the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, His Eminence Metropolitan Ioannis of Zambia and Mozambique paid a fraternal visit to Walid Hasan, Ambassador of the State of Palestine and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, in Lusaka. During the visit, he extended to the Ambassador and all Muslim brothers his heartfelt wishes for a blessed Eid al-Fitr…
On the Fourth Sunday of Lent, the Sunday of Saint John Climacus of Sinai, 30 March 2025, teachers and students from schools in Thessaloniki and Patras who participated in the 2nd Student Environmental Conference in Constantinople attended a Divine Liturgy at the Holy Metropolitan Church of St. Paraskevi in the Therapeia District. His Eminence Elder…
Your Eminence, “And behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac… and behold, I…
In a heartfelt show of solidarity with the suffering Christians of Syria, the Holy Synod of the Church of Cyprus has announced a nationwide fundraiser to be held on the Fifth Sunday of Lent, 6 April 2025, in all parishes across Cyprus. In its official encyclical, the Synod emphasises the urgency of the situation: “In…
As part of his official visit to Israel, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis held a significant meeting on Sunday, 30 March 2025, with His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem. The meeting reaffirmed Greece’s longstanding respect for the Patriarchate of Jerusalem and its pivotal mission in the Holy Land. Held in a warm and cordial…
On Sunday, 30 March 2025, His Beatitude Archbishop Ioannis of Albania presided over his first Divine Liturgy as the new Primate of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania. The service was held at the Cathedral of the Resurrection in Tirana, in the presence of the members of the Holy Synod—Metropolitan Nikolaos of Apollonia and Fier,…
With particular reverence and spiritual piety, the Lenten Vespers of the Fourth Sunday of Lent took place on Sunday afternoon, 30 March, at the Archdiocesan Church of Our Lady ‘Axion Esti’, in Northcote, Melbourne, in the Holy Diocese of Chora. The Service was presided over by His Grace Bishop Evmenios of Chora, representing His Eminence…
On the forth Sunday of Lent, 30 March, in the afternoon, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew officiated at the Service of the 5th Lenten Vespers at the Church of Saint Dimitrios in the Xyloporta District of Constantinople. The Holy Sermon was preached by Archimandrite Fr Timotheos Railakis Vranas. Also present and joined in prayer were…