The Church today venerates the memory of the Holy & Righteous Ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna.

Vespers will be performed at the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas in New York, which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on September 10 for the first time in 20 years, the General Hierarchical Vicar of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, Fr. Alexandros Karloutsos, told Russia’s state-run Sputnik news…

On September 8, 2021, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America made a brief stop today at the home of the former Metropolitan of Belgium, and Exarch of the Netherlands and Luxembourg, His Eminence Penteleimon. He is retired and lives in Chios now.

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A Great Archieratical Orthros was held on Tuesday afternoon at the Metropolitan chapel of St. Paraskevi, in the west Athens district of Nea Ionia, on the occasion of the feast day of the Nativity of the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary. The chapel displays an exact replica of the Holy and Wonder-working Icon of the Panaghia…

A trisagion prayer service for the repose of the soul of Metropolitan of Kampala Jonah was held on Tuesday in Nairobi by the Bishop of Nyeri & Mount Kenya, His Grace Neophytos. The Elder Metropolitan Jonah reposed on Sunday at the age of 76 at a hospital in Athens, and after a lengthy illness. A…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, on Tuesday welcomed the country’s president, Aleksandar Vučić, at the Patriarchal residence in Belgrade. The issue of the completion of the St. Sava cathedral in Vračar reportedly dominated talks. Porfirije: Serbian Church remembers fraternal solidarity, help offered by Greek people with gratitude In a related development, His Holiness…

A wildfire that erupted the previous days near the Skete of St. Anna, a remote and rugged part of the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos, has been extinguished, the fire brigade reported on Wednesday.

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, continued a visit to the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus this week, which he said was his “second home”. The Patriarch of Alexandria was received on Tuesday by the Archbishop of Cyprus, His Beatitude Chrysostomos, followed by meetings with the…