Former two-time Greek president Karolos Papoulias was laid to rest on Thursday in his hometown of Ioannina. Papoulias passed away on Sunday at the age of 92. An interment ceremony was held on the islet within Lake Pamvotida, on whose banks the northwest Greece city is located. The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople was represented…

Another single-day record of Covid-19 infections in Greece was recorded a day earlier, on Wednesday, a development that brought forth stricter measures by the Greek government ahead of New Year’s Eve. The nearly 29,000 new infections are attributed to the prevalent and more contagious Omicron variant of the coronavirus. As far as Church-going is concerned,…

The Church today venerates the memory of Anysia the Virgin-martyr of Thessaloniki. Today is also the feast day of St. Theodora of Caesarea.

An Extraordinary online Meeting of the Bishops of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia took place today, on the 30th of December 2021, under the Chairmanship of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, on the occasion of the rapid increase in coronavirus cases, primarily in the States of New South Wales and Victoria. Both His Eminence,…

The Holy Community of Mount Athos on Thursday expressed its strong reaction to a Tweet posted last week by Prof. Elias Mossialos and deemed sacrilegious by many faithful and Church hierarchs. In a strongly worded statement, the Holy Community of the semi-autonomous monastic polity in northern Greece underlined that the Tweet by Prof. Mossialos, the…

During its session in Moscow yesterday, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church added another name to the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church. Having heard a report regarding the relevant petition from His Eminence Metropolitan Dimitry of Tobolsk and Tyumen, the Synod resolved to canonize Fr. Mikhail Krasnotsvetov,…

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The St. Maximus the Greek Institute, on the occasion of the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, has unveiled a selection of high-quality and timely pieces, all productions of the Institute. The gift pack includes six CDs or DVDs and a vinyl LP, at a cost for 50 euros, or 10 euros for individual compilations. Μπορείτε…

Fifty-one new Orthodox faithful were baptized this week at the recently established St. Stephen parish at the Karama settlement, near the Tanzanian city of Bukoba. A con-celebratory Divine Liturgy was celebrated on the feast day of St. Stephen the Martyr.