The Thessaloniki-based Mount Athos Center is participating in events this year commemorating the bicentennial of the beginning of the Greek War of Independence, with an international conference focusing on the topic of the Greek Revolution and Mount Athos. The three-day conference will begin on Friday, and is co-organized by the Society for Macedonian Studies, also…

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be present at an extraordinary session of the Permanent Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece next Monday. According to reports, the issue of the ongoing pandemic ahead of the Christmas holidays will be discussed by hierarchs, as well as the course of a Covid-19 vaccination program…

The Church today venerates the memory of Patapios the Righteous of Thebes.

Two years have passed since the repose in the Lord of the Elder Ephraim of Arizona, the last living spiritual offspring of St. Joseph the Hesychast, who is reverently considered as the founder of Mount Athos monasticism in North America. A memorial service was held on Sunday at the Holy Monastery of St. Anthony for…

My beloved Fathers and Brothers in Christ, I bring to you the blessing and greeting of our spiritual father, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, fresh from my own visit at the Venerable Center of our Faith at the Phanar. I rejoiced to see His All-Holiness in excellent health – fully recovered and fresh from his…

Two years have passed since the repose in the Lord of the Elder Ephraim of Arizona, the last living spiritual offspring of St. Joseph the Hesychast, who is reverently considered as the founder of Mount Athos monasticism in North America. A memorial service was held on Sunday at the Holy Monastery of St. Anthony for…

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, on Monday officiated at an Archieratical Vespers at the celebrating St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo, a service attended by numerous faithful of the local ethnic Greek community and diplomats in the Egyptian metropolis. 

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, addressed a homily this week during a Divine Liturgy for the Feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, conducted at the nearly completed St. Nicholas National Shrine at “Ground Zero”, in Manhattan. In his address, the Archbishop noted that “…the new St. Nicholas will have a national and even…

Today, Dec. 7, marks the 47th anniversary of the return of Cyprus president, Archbishop Makarios, to the island republic after a Turkish invasion and occupation of one-third of the east Mediterranean isle months earlier, in July and August 1974. The Orthodoxia news agency has posted a feature on the emblematic Cypriot ecclesiastical and political leader,…