The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Wednesday received EU Commission Vice-President and Commissioner for Promoting the European Way of Life, Margaritis Schinas, at the Archdiocese of Athens’ synodal hall, and amid a break in the day’s sessions of the permanent Holy Synod of the Church of Greece.

More restrictions were announced in Greece this week for people that are not vaccinated for the Covid-19 virus, namely, the mandatory presentation of two negative rapid or PCR tests per week by employees in all sectors, including by clergymen, deacons, chanters and sextons. Worshippers are excluded from the measure, although all social distancing and public…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All-Holiness Bartholomew I, on Wednesday departed for the Phanar-district seat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate after concluding his Apostolic tour of the eastern United States. His All-Holiness’ visit to America began in Washington D.C. on October 23, with the Ecumenical Patriarch holding substantive meetings with both US President Joe Biden…

The Church today celebrates the miraculous event of the Translation of the Holy Relics of Great Martyr George, the Trophy-bearer. Today is also the feast day of Acepsimas the Bishop, Joseph the Presbyter, & Aeithalas the Deacon, all Martyrs of Persia.

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, led the blessings at the inauguration of the reconstructed St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church which was destroyed in the 11 September, 2001 attacks in New York. The patriarch, who was accompanied by Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, blessed religious objects that were recovered from…

Following the results of a check-up at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, as well as consultations with doctors, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will be admitted to the hospital later this afternoon for an angiogram that will evaluate the need for stent placement.   goarch.org 

The online television platform www.pemptousia.tv will live-stream the Great Festive Vespers and the Liturgical Procession of the Honorable Head of St. Nektarios from the Holy Trinity Monastery on the island of Aegina on Monday, Nov. 8, beginning at 18.00 Athens time (16.00 GMT). On Tuesday, Nov. 9, the Orthros service and the Archieratical Divine Liturgy…

She is 22. She comes from a country where Orthodox Christians are a minority and travels worldwide praising God in the millennia-old musical tradition known as Byzantine music. She invites young men and women to start learning Byzantine chant. “I don’t think that there is something more beautiful than to know how to praise God,”…

  ENGLISH, ROMANIAN, RUSSIAN, GEORGIAN WEDNESDAY 3 NOV – 13:00 EET Click below for the facebook live video links Opening Speech by Elder Ephraim at the 1st International Conference of Greek Orthodox Psaltic Art and Byzantine Music Community – Psaltiki 2.0 Arhim. Efrem: Cuvânt la deschiderea conferinței internaționale a asociațiilor de psalți eleni Вступительное слово…