The latest provocation by Kosovo Albanians in the Kosovo & Metohija province against the remaining Serbian Orthodox community came this week, as the former prevented Petar Petković, the Republic of Serbia’s director of Kosovo and Metohija office, and his associates, from travelling to the historic Decani Monastery for festal services on the occasion of the…

The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X, arrived in the Gulf state of Dubai on Wednesday to commence a pastoral visit to the Patriarchate’s vicarship in the United Arab Emirates. His Beatitude was welcomed at the Dubai airport by the Bishop of the Emirates and Patriarchal Vicar, Gregorios Khoury, as…

A week-long pastoral visit to Athens by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, concluded today, following a busy itinerary of meetings with Greek leadership, Church of Greece hierarchs, as well as a series of events, special Church services and celebrations in his honor throughout the past week. The pastoral visit coincides…

The Church today venerates the memory of Katherine, the Great Martyr of Alexandria.

21.11.2021 Every Sunday morning in Orthodox Countries (and elsewhere in the world where the law does not forbid it), the church bells solemnly ring to invite the faithful to come together as one family of God–in the Holy House of their Father. Everyone goes to the church for this Great Encounter, where hearts are moved…

On Thursday, 25th November, the feast-day of St Catherine the Great Martyr, the consecration service of the similarly named Parish at Mascot in Sydney took place with splendour and ecclesiastical grandeur. His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia presided over the Consecration Service with the participation of their Graces Bishop Iakovos of Miletoupolis, Emilianos of Meloa,…

Unto the Most Reverend and Right Reverend Hierarchs, Pious Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, Presidents and Members of Parish Councils, Honorable Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Members of Leadership 100, the Day and Afternoon Schools, Philoptochos Societies, the Youth, Greek Orthodox Organizations, and the entirety of the Christ-named Plenitude of the Holy Archdiocese…

The eleventh Synaxis (Assembly) of Bishops of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia was held on the 22nd and 23rd November in Sydney, under the Presidency of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia. At the Assembly, His Eminence conveyed the warm wishes and blessings of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the God-loving Bishops and informed…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, was honored on Wednesday evening during an event at the Athens Concert Hall, where addresses given by Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The event was organized by the religious association Panaghia Pammakaristos. Attendees included official title-holders bestowed by the Ecumenical Patriarchate,…