On the occasion of the feast day, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, officiated at the Divine Liturgy in the celebrating cathedral of the Nativity of the All-Holy Virgin, in the Besiktas district of the Bosporus metropolis. In a related development, speaking the dour 66th anniversary of the September 1955 pogrom,…

The Church today commemorates the Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary.

At noon on Tuesday, 7th of September 2021, H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, accompanied by the Director of the Patriarchate’s Finance Department, His Eminence Metropolitan Isychios of Kapitolias, and Geronda Chief Secretary, His Eminence Archbishop Aristarchos of Constantina, visited the Holy Monastery of Prophet Elijah, located between Jerusalem and Bethlehem near…

  Δείτε αυτή τη δημοσίευση στο Instagram.   Η δημοσίευση κοινοποιήθηκε από το χρήστη Патријарх Порфирије (@porfirije_patrijarh) Today I received Mr. Aleksandar Vucic, President of the Republic of Serbia, at the Patriarchal residence.  We talked about the participation of the state in the completion of the Saint Sava Cathedral church and other important projects in…

His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, received His Excellency Takahiko Katsumata, Ambassador of Japan to the Republic of Serbia, at the Serbian Patriarchate on 7 September 2021. In a cordial atmosphere, the interlocutors pointed out the good relations between the people of Serbia and Japan, who helped each other in difficult moments. Speaking about the current…

His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch received Her Excellency Julie Limberopoulos, the non-resident Ambassador of the Republic of Panama to the Republic of Serbia, at the Patriarchal Palace in Belgrade, on September 6, 2021. Besides current issues from the life of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the topic of conversation was the role of Patriarch Porfirije in…

His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, received His Excellency Georgios Diakofotakis, Ambassador of the Republic of Greece to the Republic of Serbia, at the Serbian Patriarchate on 7 September 2021. In a cordial and friendly conversation, Serbian Patriarch Porfirije emphasized that the Serbian Orthodox Church remembers with gratitude the fraternal solidarity and wholehearted help of the…

By Saint Photios the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople Today, the Virgin Mother is born from a barren mother and the palace is bedecked for the coming of the Lord Christ. Today, the bonds of sterility are broken and the gates of the Virgin are barred. Because, as the barren womb was dead for the purposes…

The film “Man of God”, starring Greek actor Aris Servetalis as St Nektarios of Aegina, has enjoyed the best opening of a movie in Greece and Cyprus since March last year, when the COVID pandemic began. In the first four days after its release on 26 August, the film that was shown in 117 cinemas…