German Orthodox Christians will celebrate the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council in 2025. The decision to mark the historical event in Nicaea was made at the last meeting of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of Germany (OBKD) that took place in October in Bonn. The program of events will most likely be…

Archangel Michael Greek Orthodox Church Port Washington, New York November 8, 2020 Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I am so very pleased to be with you for this magnificent feast of your Patron Saint – the Commander of the Heavenly Host, Michael, whose name – Μιχαήλ, is a question: “Who is like God?” What…

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Restoration works at the historic Monastery of St. John, also known as Vazelon Monastery, the oldest Orthodox monastery in the Pontus region of the southeast Black Sea, have ceased, with the cited reason being the exhaustion of funding by Turkey’s culture and tourism ministry. The Turkish ministry claimed that all available funding was used to…

  The health of the Bishop Budimlye and Niksic, His Grace Ioannicus, is steadily improving, according to an official announcement issued his bishopric. His Grace had been tested positive for the Covid-19 virus. The hierarch was appointed as the administrator of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral by the Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness…

The memory of the saint was celebrated by the Patriarchate of Alexandria at the Patriarchal Vicariate, in Cairo’s Hamzawi district, where a cell and chapel dedicated to St. Nektarios’ memory are located. The festal Vespers were held in the courtyard of the Church complex, due to COVID-19 restrictive measures, with the Patriarchal Vicar of Cairo,…

The official poster for the upcoming and highly-anticipated film “Man of God”, based on the life, works and miracles of St. Nektarios, was unveiled this week, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the saint’s repose. The feature length film by director Yelena Popovic is expected to debut in movie theaters next year. The…

  The Church today venerates the memory of Nektarios the Wonderworker, Metropolitan of Pentapolis, a contemporary saint of the Orthodox Church who reposed in the early part of the 20th century. This year, in fact, marks the centennial of the saint’s repose in the Lord. Yesterday, Sunday, was the feast day of the Synaxis, or…

On Sunday, October 26 / November 8, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the Holy Great Martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-streamer at the Patriarchate. On this feast the Church commemorates Saint Demetrius, who came from Thessalonica and suffered a martyr’s death in this city for the faith in Christ, during the reign of Maximian in…