n Friday 23 October / 5 November 2021, the Patriarchate celebrated the Feast of the Throne, of Saint James the Brother of God, the First Hierarch of Jerusalem. On this feast, the Church, and especially the Church of Jerusalem commemorates that Saint James was the Lord’s brother according to the law, and “the Lord made…

On Sunday, November 7th 2021, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas presided over the Parish Feast at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and the Archangel Michael in Golders Green. On Monday, November 8th, feast day of the Holy Archangels, His Grace Bishop Maximos presided over Matins and served the Divine Liturgy at the same Cathedral. Greek…

Saint Nektarios (9 November) Saint Nektarios was born on 1 October 1846, in Silyvria, Thrace, to poor and devout parents. At his baptism he was given the name Anastasios. He learned his first letters, as well as the Christian teachings, from his mother. In Silyvria he finished Primary and Middle School, before going on to…

On Monday evening, 8th November, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia officiated at the Festal Vespers for the feastday of Saint Nektarios the Wonderworker, Bishop of Pentapolis, at the celebrating parish in Wollongong, NSW. The faithful flocked to church with feelings of deep emotion as this was the first celebration of the commemoration of Saint…

The online television platform Pemptousia today will post a feature on the historic and celebrating Church of the Taxiarches, at the Mantamados site on the eastern Aegean Island of Lesvos, as well as the Holy Monastery of Panormitis, on the small Dodecanese Isle of Symi as well as on the village of Taxiarchis, in the…

Monday, Nov. 8th’s feast of the Synaxis of the Archangels was splendidly celebrated by the Hellenic Air Force, as the Archangel Michael is the patron saint of Greece’s “guardians of the skies”.

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, over the weekend expressed his gratitude to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and to the entire Greek nation for the support extended towards the Patriarchate of Alexandria. The Patriarch of Alexandria spoke on the occasion of the presence of the…

The Archbishop of Durres, Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, during a brief sermon after the Divine Liturgy at Cathedral of the Resurrection in the Albanian capital, emphasized to congregants that “…illnesses are not something unusual, but a fact of life”. On the occasion of the Gospel reading, His Beatitude added that Orthodox Christians…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All-Holiness Bartholomew I, departed for the Patriarchal see on Sunday from the United States, where he concluded a two-week Apostolic visit. On this day of His departure for Constantinople, the Ecumenical Patriarch addressed a message of thanks and congratulations to the Greek diaspora in the United States, the American…