By Kristen Bruskas, Director of Development and Communications, Metropolis of San Francisco What happens when you bring together 618 young adults from 41 states? EXCLAIM! That was the theme for the 2021 Young Adult League (YAL) Conference hosted by the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco over Labor Day weekend in Phoenix, AZ. The strength…

Online and in Person By Rev. Dn. Salvatore Michael Fazio Despite the challenges presented by the pandemic, the Program for the Diaconate was able to hold its annual summer session in 2021, completing its fifteenth consecutive year of service to the Church in training future deacons for the building up of the body of Christ….

The St. Photios National Shrine is proud to announce the theme for its annual essay contest, reflecting on the welcoming of immigrants to this nation. The St. Photios National Shrine commemorates the first Hellenic settlers to arrive in the New World, as well as celebrating the many immigrants to the United States and their experience…

With deep sorrow, we inform the faithful of our Holy Archdiocese that during the evening of Thursday, September 30th, a fire broke out in the Holy Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Theotokos in Sydney, which caused significant damage to the interior of the historic and heritage-listed building of the church and in particular to…

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A Divine Liturgy and a memorial service for the victims of a WWII-massacre in the northern city of Drama was held on Wednesday in the city’s St. Nicholas cathedral, with the Metropolitan of Drama, His Eminence Pavlos, officiating. A laying of wreaths ceremony was then held at a memorial for those slain by Bulgarian occupation…

Monday marked the beginning of the new academic year for the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, with lessons commencing in all of the parish and ecclesiastical schools operated by the Archdiocese through its Breath of Love Foundation. Some 700 children are already registered in the Church’s pre-schools and kindergartens, while roughly 2,000 pupils are enrolled…

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, arrived in the Arkalohori region of Crete on Thursday to personally inspect the damages left behind by a 5.8 on the Richter scale earthquake that struck the area on Monday. In a related development, the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church on Thursday also issued…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All-Holiness Bartholomew I, will arrive in the United States on Oct. 23 for an official visit that will continue until Nov. 3. The Ecumenical Patriarch will be welcomed by the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, in Washington D.C. The visit, originally scheduled for May 2020, was postponed due…