The Greek Orthodox Church of Australia experienced double spiritual joy on Sunday morning, 21st November. On the great feastday of the Entrance of the Theotokos to the Temple, the episcopal ordination of the Archiepiscopal Vicar of Canberra, Bishop-elect Prochoros of Charioupolis took place with ecclesiastical splendour at the Holy Parish of St Nicholas, in Marrickville,…

From ancient Christianity to modern times, doctors, nurses, and specialist healers, as well as other simple and conscientious faithful Christians have served “those in illness and suffering” by tangibly expressing God’s love for mankind, after the example and in the image of Christ. A number of these were distinguished for their holiness, which the Church…

My beloved Deacon George, Today, on the threshold of the Feast of the Entrance of the All-Holy Theotokos into the Temple of the Law, you stand on the threshold of the Holy Priesthood. Just as our Lady, the Blessed Ever-Virgin Mary, stood below the steps of the Holy of Holies in Jerusalem, you, too, now…

You are invited to participate in the eMeeting with Elder Ephraim, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Vatopedi, Mount Athos, and Russian Speaking Faithful”, which will take place on Tuesday Nov 23, 2021 at 07:30 PM EET. Elder Ephraim will talk in Greek and we will offer simultaneous Russian, English, Romanian and Georgian Interpretation for…

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The Elder Archimandrite Gabriel, the Abbot of the St. David Monastery in northern Evia island, spoke to Pemptousia FM on Friday over the very difficult situation faced by the monastery’s monks last August, during a particularly destructive front of wildfires that devastated northern Evia in the summer. The Elder Gabriel referred to the miraculous manner…

Greek president of the republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Friday received the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, at the presidential mansion. The reason for the meeting was for the Primate of the Church of Greece and accompanying hierarchs to present Greece’s head of state with a 10-volume collection containing the minutes and…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week conveyed a warm congratulatory letter to the husband-and-wife founders of Germany-based BioNTech, ethnic Turkish physicians and researchers Ugur Şahin and Özlem Türesi, who were awarded the Athenagoras Human Rights Award by the National Council of the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle. Along…

The Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday evening announced even stricter measures in the east Mediterranean country for adults that are not vaccinated for the Covid-19 virus, including an obligation to present a negative rapid or PCR test result, or a prior infection certificate, for the entrance into houses of worship. Unvaccinated adults in…