His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch officiated the solemn rite of the proclamation of High Venerable Archimandrite Damaskin (Grabez) for Bishop of Mohacs, Vicar of Bishop of Backa in the old Cathedral church of Holy Archangel Michael in Belgrade on 18 September 2021 (photo gallery). Besides the primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church, in the rite…

His Eminence Metropolitan Sergi of Nekresi, 62, of the Georgian Orthodox Church has reposed in the Lord. He served the Church in the episcopal dignity for 29 years. The Metropolitan’s health was complicated by a COVID infection. He was treated in the hospital for several days before his repose, reports the press service of the…

Another church has been built and consecrated in honor of the great 20th-century confessor and holy hierarch St. Luke the Blessed Surgeon of Simferopol, this time in in the heart of the African nation of Kenya. The Russian hierarch is one of the most beloved saints in the Orthodox world today, highly venerated as a…

London Faculty Research Seminar Series: Archimandrite Nikodemos Anagnostopoulos, Chancellor of the Holy Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain and Professor at the University of Notre Dame in England. Tuesday, September 28th, 5:15 p.m. Join us for the first in the London Faculty Research Seminar Series, presented by Professor Nikodemos Anagnostopoulos. The London Research Seminars are…

On Wednesday, September 15, 2021, a Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Archdiocesan Chapel to honor the feast of Saint Nikitas the Great Martyr, patron saint of His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas. As is customary, the name day celebration was also commemorated with a blessing of the five loaves and a memorial service for the Saint….

My Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Today, I witness the fruits of your extraordinary labors for the sake of our Lord and for your community. I behold the beauty and glory of the Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the rebuilding and reopening of this precious and historic community of Corona. Over four…

At the end of the Divine Liturgy on Sunday, September 19, 2021 at St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Miami, FL His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America conferred upon the Rev. Spyridon Bobotis the office of Economos of the Archdiocese. Afterwards, at the reception in the Parish Community Center, the children of the community warmly…

My Beloved Christians – brothers and sisters in the Lord, I am truly delighted to be with you today, at this magnificent Cathedral of Ἀγία Σοφία – the Mother Church of South-East Florida. I am especially pleased that I can be here for this celebration of your remarkable program of the restoration of the Cathedral,…

Archbishop Elpidophoros Meets with New AHEPA Supreme President Mr. Jimmy Kokotas and the Executive Director of AHEPA Mr. Basil Mossaidis at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America in New York City. (September 17, 2021) goarch.org