In the evening of Friday, the first week of Great Lent, 22nd February / 7th March 2025, at the Catholicon of the Sacred Church of the Holy Sepulchre and within the framework of the service of the Small Compline, the canon of the Theotokos was chanted, with the First Stasis of the Akathist Hymn to…

The First Sunday of Lent, known as the Sunday of Orthodoxy, was celebrated on Sunday, 9 March 2025, with great solemnity and deep reverence at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, with a Poly-Hierarchical Divine Liturgy. His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece presided over the Divine Liturgy, and was joined by Their Eminences,…

With all due solemnity and in accordance with the centuries-old tradition, the Sunday of Orthodoxy was celebrated on Sunday, 9 March 2025, at the Holy See of the First-Throne Church of Constantinople. His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided over the Patriarchal and Synodal Divine Liturgy, and was joined in concelebration by His Beatitude Metropolitan Epiphaniy…

On Sunday, 9 March 2025, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia officiated at the 2nd Lenten Vespers of Holy and Great Lent which took place at the venerable Patriarchal Church of Saint George, at the Phanar. Find below the video from the 2nd Lenten Vespers: vema.com.au

he Holy Synod of Jerusalem convened at the Patriarchate in Jerusalem on Thursday, March 6, 2025 (Gregorian calendar), corresponding to February 21 (Julian calendar). The session was presided over by His Beatitude Kyrios Kyrios Theophilos III, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, with the participation of the members of the Holy Synod. His Beatitude, together with the…

The Raška and Prizren Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church has issued a strong protest over the severe damage and desecration of the Hermitage of Saint Peter of Koriša, a 13th-century Serbian Orthodox holy site near Prizren, Kosovo. According to the diocese, unauthorized construction work was recently carried out in the area, including the breaking…

On Thursday, 6 March 2025, His Eminence Metropolitan Philotheos of Thessaloniki visited His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople, accompanied by Konstantinos Konstantinakis, head of his personal office. The visit had two primary objectives. The first was to deliver, alongside Alexandros Katsiara, Director of the Communication and Educational Department of the…

On Thursday, 6 March 2025, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew welcomed Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and former President of the New Democracy party, Vangelis Meimarakis, to the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople. Meimarakis, who also serves as Co-Chair of the Interreligious Dialogue Committee of the European People’s Party (EPP), expressed his honour and joy…

On Tuesday, 4 March 2025, the Catechumens Group gathered at St. George Cathedral in Stockholm, where His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden delivered a lecture in English on the significance of Great Lent. The meeting provided an opportunity for attendees to deepen their understanding of Lenten traditions and spiritual preparation. The next session is scheduled…