An illustrated and deluxe ecclesiastical calendar for 2021 was again published by the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi. The impressive 2021 calendar is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the beginning of the Greek War of Independence.     

New restrictive measures in Austria will extend to Jan. 17, with the Holy Metropolis of Austria announcing a new framework of rules for the ecclesiastical and liturgical life of the Church, and the faithful, during the specific period. As with previous measures, Church services will be held without the presence of worshippers, although they will…

The feast day of St. Stephen on Sunday was celebrated at the Metropolitan cathedral in the city of Arnea, which is dedicated to the saint, but with the Greek and Byzantine flags outside the church flying at half-mast. The Protomartyr and Deacon of The Faith is the patron saint of the small city. In adhering…

Sunday, December 27 was a historic day in Greece and other EU countries, as the first inoculations of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the Covid-19 commenced. One of the first individuals vaccinated in Greece was the Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Aghios Vlasios, His Eminence Ierotheos, who is the spokesman of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece….

The Church today venerates the memory of the 20,000 martyrs burned in Nicomedia, in northeast Asia Minor, at the beginning of the 4th century.

The thirtieth anniversary of the enthronement of His Grace Bishop Irinej of Backa, PhD, was marked on 23 December 2020. At the regular session of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1989, hieromonk Irinej was elected as Vicar Bishop of the Serbian Patriarch, with a title of Bishop of Moravica,…

New Valaam Monastery in Heinävesi, Finland was awarded the “Sprout of Responsibility” honorary prize from the Finnish branch of the Forest Stewardship Council this year for its merits in ecological, social, and efficient forest management. A new plan for the use of the monastery’s forest land, which currently covers 1,160 acres, was drawn up in…

“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in the darkness but will have the light of life” (John 8:12). Beloved in the Lord children of our Holy Church, In the days and months of new and severe trials, which we also share with the whole world and all mankind,…