On Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women 3/16 May 2021, His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos officiated the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Church of Ramle Monastery of the Patriarchate. On this feast the Church commemorates Joseph of Arimathaea – present-day Ramle – who was a noble counsellor, accepting and longing for the…

In a letter dated May 13, 2021, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander, offered his congratulations to His Grace Bishop Irinej of Eastern America, noting: “It was with great joy and pride that my wife, HRH Crown Princess Katherine and I received the news that Saint Sava Cathedral received The Lucy G. Moses Award from…

On the feast day of Saint Athanasius the Great, 15 May 2021, His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church dedicated to this great saint in Belgrade’s suburb of Plavi Horizonti. The Patriarch was concelebrated by Diocesan dean protopresbyter-staurophor Bozo Bakajlic, archpriest Milos Stojanovic and Vladan Simic, hieromonk Sava (Bundalo)…

His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Tuman Monastery, on 16 May 2021, on the Sunday of Myrrh-Bearing Women. The Patriarch was concelebrated by Their Graces Bishops Jovan of Sumadija, Bishop Ignatije of Branicevo and Ilarion of Timok, with the monastics and the clergy from many dioceses. The faithful gathered…

The faithful in the central Greece city of Karditsa over the weekend commemorated the 1923 miraculous ending of a devastating drought in the area, after prayers to hieromartyr Seraphim, Bishop of Fanourion and Neochorion in the early 17th century. The new Martyr Seraphim was horrendously tortured and executed by the occupying Turks after remaining steadfast…

The Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, His Eminence Anastasios, in a sermon at the Cathedral of the Resurrection in Tirana a day earlier, referred to the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women, noting that the faithful should be bolder in life, and through the latter express their love for God. In south-central Greece, an…

Commemorations and memorial events commenced on Monday ahead of the annual May 19 remembrance of the Pontian Greek Genocide – which falls on Wednesday. Ethnic Greek Pontian groups around the world on the specific day remember the more than 350,000 victims of the genocide between 1916 and 1923 at the hands of the Ottomans and…

The Church today venerates the memory of Sts. Andronicus and Junia, contemporaries of the Apostle Paul, and Martyrs in the 1st Century. Today is also the feast day of the 16th century brothers Theophanes and Nektarios, the builders of the Varlaam monastery in the central Greece rock formations of Meteora.

In November 2019, several men broke into the residence of Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople in the Phanar section of Istanbul. The Patriarch wasn’t home at the time, and no items were stolen. At the end of November, four local men were arrested and charged with the break-in. According to a new report from ethnos.gr, the…