The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, received more messages of best wishes and recuperation, the latest coming from Prince Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates. The UAE dignitary called the Ecumenical Patriarch on Tuesday and wished him a quick recovery, as the former…

The Holy Community of Mount Athos on Thursday expressed its strong reaction to a Tweet posted last week by Prof. Elias Mossialos, one deemed as highly disrespectful by the faithful and Church hierarchs. In a strongly worded statement, the Holy Community of the semi-autonomous monastic polity in northern Greece underlined that the Tweet by the…

  Former two-time Greek president Karolos Papoulias was laid to rest on Thursday in his hometown of Ioannina. Papoulias passed away on Sunday at the age of 92. An interment ceremony was held on the islet within Lake Pamvotida, on whose banks the northwest Greece city is located. The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople was represented…

Another single-day record of Covid-19 infections in Greece was recorded a day earlier, on Wednesday, a development that brought forth stricter measures by the Greek government ahead of New Year’s Eve. The nearly 29,000 new infections are attributed to the prevalent and more contagious Omicron variant of the coronavirus. As far as Church-going is concerned,…

The Church today venerates the memory of Anysia the Virgin-martyr of Thessaloniki. Today is also the feast day of St. Theodora of Caesarea.

An Extraordinary online Meeting of the Bishops of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia took place today, on the 30th of December 2021, under the Chairmanship of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, on the occasion of the rapid increase in coronavirus cases, primarily in the States of New South Wales and Victoria. Both His Eminence,…

The Holy Community of Mount Athos on Thursday expressed its strong reaction to a Tweet posted last week by Prof. Elias Mossialos and deemed sacrilegious by many faithful and Church hierarchs. In a strongly worded statement, the Holy Community of the semi-autonomous monastic polity in northern Greece underlined that the Tweet by Prof. Mossialos, the…

During its session in Moscow yesterday, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church added another name to the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church. Having heard a report regarding the relevant petition from His Eminence Metropolitan Dimitry of Tobolsk and Tyumen, the Synod resolved to canonize Fr. Mikhail Krasnotsvetov,…

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