Saint Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church New York, New York June 11, 2021 Beloved Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Christ is in our midst! Today, in an ecumenical gesture worthy of the occasion, I have the special honor to preside over the Divine Service for the Patronal Feast of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople…

The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi, remained intubated on Saturday for a ninth straight day. Attending physicians described his condition as remaining stable, without any deterioration. The beloved Elder remains in Athens’ Evagelismos Hospital’s ICU, fighting against the Covid-19 virus, as have millions of people around the…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, speaking on the occasion of his name day, as Friday is the feast day of the Apostle Bartholomew, referred to the “particular responsibilities” he has inherited from his predecessors on the Ecumenical Throne. “From this tortuous throne, We feel the indefatigable and sacred obligation that…

A feature has been posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia Νews Αgency on the historic Monastery of the Transfiguration of Christ the Savior, located at an altitude of more than 740 meters at on the slopes of Mt Sagmata, outside the south-central Greece city of Thebes. A chapel located at the monastery is…

Serbian Orthodox Church hierarchs on Thursday conducted a Divine Liturgy inside the unfinished Christ the Savior cathedral in Pristina, in the strife-plagued province of Kosovo & Metohija. The church has been under construction since 1995, and this was the first time in more than 20 years that a Divine liturgy was conducted. In 2017, a…

The inauguration of the St. Barnabas Cathedral in Nicosia, Cyprus, began on Thursday with an awards ceremony for the benefactors and donors of the new church. The ceremony took place in the northern part of the courtyard of the Church, in the presence of the President of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, visiting Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew, on Friday officiated at the Divine Liturgy for the Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas, with the service held at the Patriarchal Cathedral. Friday marked the Ecumenical Patriarch’s name day. A day earlier, His All Holiness presided over the Grand Vespers at the Monastery of the Zoodochos…

The Church today venerates the memory of Bartholomew and Barnabas the Holy Apostles. Today the Church also commemorates the Revelation of the Hymn “Axion Estin”, revealed to a monk on Mt. Athos by the Archangel Gabriel Finally, today is the feast day of St. Luke the Blessed Surgeon, a 20th century archbishop of Simferopol and…

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