Every adult remembers where they were on 9-11-01. The day when over 3,000 souls tragically lost their lives, and well over 6,000 were grievously injured. In that very dark day, the light was also extinguished in one of Christ’s churches as St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was destroyed and buried in rubble. As we…

New York, NY – On June 29, 2020 His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America convened the Spring Meeting of the Archdiocese Council. Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, travel and meeting restrictions, and public health concerns, the meeting was held virtually via video conferencing in two separate sessions. The Archdiocese Council meets twice a year…

  The Church today, July 1, venerates the memory of Cosmas & Damian, the Holy Unmercenaries. These two saints hailed from Rome. They were physicians, freely bestowing healing upon beasts and men, asking nothing from the healed other than that they confess and believe in Christ. They ended their life in martyrdom in the year…

The second part of the Archontariki with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, with an assembly of faithful gathered at a university chapel in the city of Cluj, Romania, was posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency. 

The Russian Orthodox Church this week expressed its displeasure over a proposal by a Russian lawmaker, who called for future clerics to first undergo a psychiatric examination and a criminal background check. The Patriarchate of Moscow said such checks would be unconstitutional; stressing that clerics should not fall under guidelines in place for candidates of…

A memorial service was held this week by priests of the Archdiocese of Bucharest for the 21 health care professionals in Romania who lost their lives due to the Covid-19 virus. The memorial service was held at the hospital chapel of Sts. Cosmas and Damian, in the Romanian capital.   In aceste momente se desfășoară…

  Turkey’s official tourism promotion agency this week featured the iconic Panaghia Soumela Monastery in northeast Asia Minor on its website – yet another instance where tourism officials in the predominately Muslim country use Orthodox and Hellenic monuments and cultural treasures to attract tourists and pilgrims. Restoration works at the monastery have been completed, with…

  A memorial service was held on Tuesday evening at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Mount Athos, on the occasion of the 11-year anniversary of the repose of the Elder Joseph of Vatopedi. The service was officiated by the Abbot of the Holy Monastery of the Osios Gregorios, Elder Archimandrite Christoforos. The…

On June 29-30, Rector of Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary, Protopresbyter Giorgi Zviadadze, PhD in Theology and Philology, met with this year’s graduates of the educational institution. On June 29, a meeting was held with the students of the Faculty of Christian Psychology and the Faculty of Christian Art, at which the Rector, Father Giorgi…