Attending physicians on Monday termed the condition of Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi, as critical but stable. The Elder Ephraim remains hospitalized and intubated, for a fourth straight day, in an ICU at the public Evangelismos Hospital in Athens. Despite medical complications over the past few days,…

The Pemptousia platform will organize the second archontariki from Mt. Athos with Fr. Nikolaos Loudovikos on Tuesday, June 8, at 19.30 Athens time. Fr. Nikolaos will speak on the theme of “Aesthetics of Relationships”. Archontariki means a monastery’s guest house in Greek.  

The Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, on Sunday expressed his gratitude to Greece’s ministry of education for its support of the work of the Athanasius the Great Seminary School. The Patriarch spoke during a graduation ceremony of eight African seminary students, where he personally presented them with their…

The name of Ioannis Kapodistrias was given to a park in the center of the Lausanne, Switzerland, where a bust of modern Greece’s first governor is located. A ceremony renaming the park comes on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the start of the Greek War of Independence. Every year on February 11, the…

The Metropolitan of Fthiotida, His Eminence Simeon, on the Sunday of the Blind Man officiated at an Archi-eratical Divine Liturgy and ministered the Gospel at the Cathedral of the Annunciation in the town of Larymna.  

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, on the Sunday of the Blind Man con-celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of the Transfiguration in Zagreb, Croatia. The Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church and administrator of the Diocese of Zagreb-Ljubljana addressed the congregated faithful with a sermon, after reading from the Holy Gospel, in…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on the Sunday of the Blind Man, officiated at the Divine Liturgy at the Church of St. George, in the large village of Agioi Theodoroi, on the northeast Aegean island of Imbros – His ancestral homeland. The Ecumenical Patriarch pointed out that He wished to…

The Church today venerates the memory of Theodotos, Bishop of Ancora. Today is also the feast day of Our Righteous Father Panagis Basias, or Paisios.

On Sunday 24 May /6 June 2021, Sunday of the blind man according to the book of Pentecostarion, His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos officiated the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Church of Saint George the Great Martyr and Trophy-bearer, in the Rum Orthodox Arab-speaking Community of Tur’an, a small town near…