A strong 6.3 on the Richter scale earthquake on Tuesday shook the large island of Crete and the wider eastern Mediterranean region, with an epicenter pinpointed at 14 kilometers off the isle’s eastern coast. The latest tremor came some two weeks, with a 5.8 quake, and with an epicenter on land, causing one fatality and…

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, this week received the new speaker of Cyprus’ House of Representatives, Annita Demetriou. The Primate of the Church of Greece warmly welcomed the top Cypriot lawmaker, and recalled his university days in the 1950s, when rallies in favor of Cypriot independence were commonplace in Athens….

The Church today venerates the memory of Carpus, Papylus, Agathodorus and Agathonica. The four martyrs were beheaded during the reign of Decius, amid widespread persecutions of Christians in the middle of the third century.

  Subject: “The spiritual relation of Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi and Elder Dionysios Kolitsiotis” Friday Oct 15, 2021 – 19:30 Athens EET Dear friends You are invited to participate in the “2nd e-Meeting with Elder Ephraim and Romanian Faithful, organized by the web magazine PEMPTOUSIA and TRINITAS TV with the Blessings of his Beatitude Daniel,…

The Russian Orthodox Church’s mission to provide Scripture and other religious texts in the languages of the various ethnic peoples who call Russia their home continued this week with the publication of The Law of God for Children in the Tuvan language. Work on the book began in the spring and continued for several months….

Responding to the request of the faithful, the Romanian Archdiocese of Suceava is holding a three-day pilgrimage throughout the diocese with the relics of the diocesan patron St. John the New. The procession, which began on Sunday and wraps up today, has already been a blessing to the faithful at a number of churches, monasteries,…

The presence of the COVID-19 Delta variant in the Southeastern United States has caused the Metropolis of Atlanta to recognize that the Annual Archangel Michael Honors Weekend is still potentially unsafe. However, the Metropolis does not wish to leave our 2020 & 2021 honorees unacknowledged. Instead, His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios is excited to celebrate the…

At the Metropolis of Boston Camp’s Fall Camp held over Columbus Day weekend, MBC witnessed the Baptism and Chrismation of two of its campers. With the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Methodios of Boston, and at the request of Mr. George Paradissis and Dr. Irina Kalatskaya, Sophia and Vasilios Paradissis were baptized in the camp’s…

On October 11-12, 2021 His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America met with the Archdiocese Benefits Committee (ABC) and the Archdiocese Presbyters Council (APC) who are holding in-person meetings prior to the National Clergy Retreat in Naples, FL. His Eminence also attended the first ever joint meeting of the ABC and APC. goarch.org