On Monday night, November 8, 2021, the first day of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s return from the United States, President Joe Biden called His All-Holiness to ask about his health and return trip to Constantinople. When the Patriarch thanked him for their recent October 25th meeting at the White House, which had lasted for…

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The Metropolitan of Piraeus, His Eminence Seraphim, this week gave a high-profile television interview, where he referred to the issue of vaccinations for the Covid-19 virus and the strict adherence to public health measures within places of worship. His Eminence underlined that “…all those who oppose vaccination are people who have no relation whatsoever with…

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, received the visiting Secretary-General of Hellenes Abroad and Public Diplomacy, Ioannis Chrysoulakis, at the Patriarchate’s see in Alexandria. Talks focused on how cooperation between the Patriarchate of Alexandria and the Greek government can been boosted towards the direction of expanding…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, this week officiated at a Festal Divine Liturgy on the occasion of the feast day celebration of Great Martyr Demetrius, as based on the Julian calendar, at a dedicated cathedral in new Belgrade. In a brief sermon, His Holiness told the assembled faithful that “… the saints of…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All-Holiness Bartholomew I, received a phone call from US President Joe Biden on Monday evening, with the American leader expressing his best wishes for the former’s speedy recovery from a stent procedure last week in Manhattan. The Primate of the Mother Church departed from New York City on Sunday…

The Church today venerates the memory of Nektarios the Wonderworker, Bishop of Pentapolis. The online television platform Pemptousia today continued to live-stream the solemn services on the occasion of the feast day of St. Nektarios, from the Saronic island of Aegina, and specifically from the Monastery of the Holy Trinity. A Great Festal Vespers was…

On Monday, 26 October / 8 November 2021, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the Holy Great Martyr Demetrios the Myrrh-gusher. On this feast, the Church, and especially the Church of Thessaloniki commemorates that Saint Demetrios was born in Thessaloniki and martyred for Christ during the reign of Maximian in AD 306. The reason was…

On Saturday 24 October / 6 November 2021, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Holy Forty Martyrs’ chapel which is at the bottom of the bell tower of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and next to Saint James Cathedral. The Liturgy was officiated by His Eminence Archbishop Philoumenos of Pella with the co-celebration…