The feast day of the Holy Cincture of the All-Holy Theotokos, the Virgin Mary, was celebrated with centuries-old Athonite rite and splendor on over the weekend at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Mount Athos. The Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Stavronikita, the Elder Archimandrite Tichon, presided over the services. On Sunday…

The Church today observes the Forefeast of the Elevation of the Holy Cross. Today is also the feast day of Cornelius the Centurion & Martyr.

The altar of Romania’s National Cathedral has begun to display its beautiful mosaic iconography with scaffolding starting to come down. Like all important works, the iconographic project of the altar started on paper: Starting with the highest and going downwards, the three registers present the following iconographic representations: The Tabernacle of the Congregation, which was…

In honor of the 270th anniversary of his birth, the year 2021 has been declared the year of St. Herman of Alaska in the Ryazan Province of Russia, where his hometown of Kadom is located. To mark the anniversary, a monument to the great missionary was unveiled and blessed in Kadom last week. The monument…

The Holy Orthodox Order of St. George the Great Martyr has been asked to help facilitate funds for the transportation of clergy and laity to the state funeral and Liturgy of the late Metropolitan Jonah of Kampala and All Uganda of blessed memory, who reposed in the Lord on Sunday, September 6, in Athens, Greece….

The Russian Orthodox Church held its central event in this year of the 800th anniversary of the birth of the Right-Believing Prince Alexander Nevsky this weekend in St. Petersburg. Events have been held throughout Russia throughout the year in honor of the great 13th-century saint. Hundreds of thousands venerated relics of St. Alexander Nevsky that…

My Beloved Christians, I rejoice to be with you today, fresh from a spiritually enriching visit to our Holy Mother Church in Constantinople, and from the observances of 9/11 at our Saint Nicholas Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center. I cannot help but note that in the aftermath of every September Eleventh…

The Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine has been illuminated for the first time and has officially commenced the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 remembrance. “For they gave their lives for the common weal, and won for themselves the praise which grows not old and the most distinguished of all sepulchers – not…

The Holy Archdiocese of Australia welcomes with satisfaction the retraction of the ABC news agency and its expression of an apology to Archbishop Makarios for all the distorting and ultimately slanderous lies it had published in April of this year at the expense of His Eminence, the Greek Orthodox Church, and the Greek faithful of…