Significant social concerns affecting modern society continue to garner the attention of Orthodox Churches around the world. The ongoing crisis affecting the institution of the family in many countries, the serious problem of low birthrates – especially in western societies – challenges faced by young people and the use of the Internet, are issues…

  The “Jesus Prayer” is the most powerful prayer, which contains the words “Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy of me.” This core original, traditional formula varied and varies slightly, depending on the historical period and the teaching school which used it. The most common additions, but not the only ones, are “Lord Jesus Christ, [son…

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An extraordinary session of the Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod has been called for Saturday in order to discuss the contentious issue of the Tomos of Autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. An invitation was extended by the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, towards Church hierarchs who are members of…

BOSTON – On the evening of Thursday, October 3rd, 2019 the Metropolis of Boston held the first Orthodoxy on Tap of the Fall Semester. Orthodoxy on Tap is the one of the most prominent young adult ministries out Metropolis. The community of over 100 young adults from throughout the Greater Boston area meets monthly in…

Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople, 1839-1923 By Professor Dimitris Stamatopoulos 1. History of the Ecumenical Patriarchate 1830-1923 The period of the history of the Ecumenical Patriarchate which lasts from the end of the Greek War of Independence(1830) until the Asia Minor Catastrophe (1922-1923), is characterized by an internal change: the validation of the text of the…

  NEW YORK – Yiannis Hadjiloizou, conducting the Athens Philharmonic in Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection,” will debut at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 8 p.m. to benefit Saint Nicholas Church and National Shrine. His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has invited the Omogeneia to this special concert at Stern Auditorium…

  When we focus on good, good grows. When we focus on bad, bad grows. That’s why we should stay away from negative people because they have a problem for every solution. We should pray for them and love them but do not encourage them or cooperate too much with them because sin is failure…

    Greetings to all of you in the grace of God and in His boundless love that has been revealed to us by our Risen Lord. It is in this love that you and faithful across our Holy Archdiocese have welcomed me as Archbishop of America, a sacred calling and responsibility to God and…