In honor of the new school year, Orthodox dioceses throughout Romania have been providing children with necessary school supplies. A week before school started, priests of the Archdiocese of the Lower Danube received donated backpacks filled with school supplies, which they then distributed to 4,000 children, reports the Basilica News Agency. On September 16, the…

It is announced that the scheduled visit of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the United States of America will take place from October 23 to November 3, within the framework of health and safety measures due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. During this visit, the doors of Saint Nicholas National Shrine and Greek Orthodox…

On the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas of Detroit and area priests gathered at Holy Cross in Farmington Hills, Michigan to celebrate with the faithful. goarch.org

NEW YORK – On Thursday, September 16, 2021, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America convened a regular meeting of the Holy Eparchial Synod via video conference, in order to deliberate on significant matters that affect the Archdiocese of America. At the beginning of the meeting, the synodical hierarchs with joy were informed of today’s communique…

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Greek Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias addressed the opening of an exhibition at the Byzantine and Christian Museum on Wednesday evening in Athens. At least 200 archival documents are displayed at the exhibition, which is organized by the Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic & Historical Archives service, and on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the…

The Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, on Wednesday received the US ambassador to Russia, John J. Sullivan. Hilarion, who is also the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external Church relations, welcomed the top US diplomat in the country to the synodal building. The Metropolitan later expressed the Church’s condolences over the 20th…

Two ornate 18th century doors, looted from a church in Cyprus in the 1970s, were finally repatriated from Japan to the east Mediterranean island republic this week. The pair of doors are dated 1778 and adorned the Church of St. Anastasios in Cyprus. The Church of St. Anastasios was looted in 1974 during the invasion…

The new academic year began in Alexandria’s Greek community schools this week with 47 pupils. A blessing ceremony was officiated by the Patriarchal Vicar of Alexandria, Metropolitan Narkissos, who conveyed the best wishes and blessing of the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II. In another part of…