The primate of the Polish Orthodox Church blessed this week a new wing in an Orthodox nursing home that is fully equipped with modern medical and therapeutic equipment. His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland visited and blessed the Church facility in the village of Trześcianka in northeastern Poland on Wednesday, opening the…

Special Byzantine chant concerts will be offered throughout America for two weeks this month. At the invitation of His Eminence Metropolitan Nicolae of the Americas of the Romanian Orthodox Church, members of the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest’s Tronos Choir will give Byzantine music concerts in a number of parishes of the Romanian Archdiocese of the…

September 2, 2021 This week’s “How-to” Green Your Parish episode features Rev. Jim Kordaris “Creation and Stewardship” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyOLGbHim3Q The “How-to” Green Your Parish series is an initiative of the Department of Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations. New episodes will be released weekly featuring ideas and ways to introduce creation care and sustainability in your parish…

On September 2, 2021, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America delivered a presentation to the Synaxis of Hierarchs of the Ecumenical Throne concerning the foundation and progress of the “Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Foundation” which to date has raised over 15 million dollars. For more information regarding the Foundation, please visit https://bartholomew.foundation/ goarch.org

On Wednesday, September 1, 2021, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America joined together with Hierarchs of the Ecumenical Throne from across the globe in order to co-preside with His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Divine Liturgy in the Venerable Patriarchal Church of Saint George in commemoration of the feast of Indiction — the proclamation…

Before midnight on Thursday 20 August/ 2 September 2021, after an old-age illness over the last few months, the elder Archimandrite Anthimos Theocharakis slept in the Lord at the age of 90. He was the Hegoumen of the Monastery of Men of Galilee on the Mount of Olives. The Hagiotaphite Brotherhood, which the departed served…

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The Holy and Great Vatopedi publications have unveiled a new book written by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the venerable monastery, entitled “Addresses about the Elder Joseph the Hesychast”. For more information visit the monastery’s site at www.vatopedi.gr

The Autocephalous Church of Albania this week announced an initiative to learn the circumstances behind the disappearance and fate of missing clerics and laymen who were arrested by the communist regime which ruled the country with an iron fist for more than four decades. A first action was a photo exhibition in Tirana, attended by…