Everyone should become a steadfast missionary and announce the divine help received in the community where they live and carry out their activity, Patriarch Daniel urged during his Sunday homily at the Patriarchal Cathedral. The Patriarch of Romania gave the example of the Gerasene demoniac who, after being healed by Christ, was told to remain…
NEW YORK – The faithful of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America glorify God as they receive with great joy the news from Mount Athos and our spiritual father, His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who announced the forthcoming canonization of four Athonite fathers: Elders Ieronymos of Simonopetra, Daniel Katounakiotis, Joseph the Hesychast and…
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The National Council of Churches annual Christian Unity Gathering (CUG) and fall governing board meeting met in Newport News, Virginia from October 13-16, 2019. This year’s CUG remembered and lamented the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first people from Africa, who were immediately enslaved, with a ceremony at Point…
MEDIA ADVISORY Mon., Oct. 21, 2019 6:00 p.m. Delphi Award Dinner of the AHEPA Chapter of New York City The Boat House, NYC Tue., Oct. 22, 2019 10:00 a.m. HCHC Executive Committee Meeting Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology Brookline, Mass. Wed., Oct. 23, 2019 9:00 a.m. Interfaith Reception & Breakfast of…
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The Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, this week again sent a message of peaceful coexistence between the peoples of the Mediterranean and the resolution of whatever differences, in receiving some 100 pilgrims and officials from the Cypriot city of Paphos. The visit comes within the framework of…
An Archieratic con-celebration was held at the Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral in New York City on Sunday, officiated by the Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, His Beatitude Epiphanius, and co-officiated by the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros and other Metropolitans of the Archdiocese of America. His Beatitude Epiphanius read from the Church’s…
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, was proclaimed as the “spiritual proprietor” of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, during a ceremony at the Monastery’s synodical hall on Monday. The high distinction was bestowed upon the Ecumenical Patriarch by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Monastery, who cited…
The Transcarpathian monks who inhabited St. Panteleimon’s Monastery in the early 20th century were full of joy and the grace of God, wrote St. Silouan the Athonite in a newly-discovered letter. According to Sergei Shumilo, the Director of the International Institute of the Athonite Legacy, a previously-unknown original letter of St. Silouan, dated April 16,…