The Church today commemorates the Nativity of the Forerunner John the Baptist. John was greater than all who are born of women – the Prophet who received God’s testimony that he surpassed all the Prophets; born of the aged and barren Elizabeth — who filled his kinsmen, and those that lived about, with gladness and…

The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople on Tuesday announced the canonization of the late Metropolitan of Edessa, Pella and Almopias, Kallinikos. The Holy Synod, chaired by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, convened in the Swiss city of Chambésy. Kallinikos’ memory will be commemorated with a feast day…

Greek foreign minister, Nikos Dendias, accompanied by visiting EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, toured the Greek-Turkish frontier on Wednesday, with both men noting that Greece’s borders with Turkey are also the EU borders, and that the Union has the determination to protect its external borders effectively. Dendias added that…

The Holy Icon Axion Esti was venerated in centuries-old Mount Athos tradition this week at the semi-autonomous monastic community’s capital, Karyes, with the Metropolitan of Sisanion and Siatista, His Eminence Athanasios officiated at a Divine Liturgy, and co-officiated by several Mount Athos Elders.  

Wednesday, June 24, marks the 28th anniversary of the election of Anastasios Yannulatos as the Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. A feature is posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency on the phenomenal works and efforts undertaken by the Archbishop and his associates to resurrect…

Doing Their ‘PART’ to Help During a Pandemic There are parishes throughout the Archdiocese that have had the unenviable task of responding to a natural disaster – floods, hurricanes, wildfires, etc. – but none could be prepared for the pandemic that gripped the United States in the opening months of 2020. Parishes could only respond…

His Eminence Metropolitan Hrizostom of Dabar-Bosnia visited new premises of the Archives of the Serbian Church which was adapted during 2019 in the building of the Saint Sava’s House in Zemun. For the management and staff of the Archives of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the visit of Metropolitan Hrizostom was a great joy and a…

  On Monday, June 15th, 2020, with the blessing of His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East, the University of Balamand awarded its first PhD in Theology. The new doctoral program was officially established at the Balamand’s St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology by the Lebanese Ministry of Education and…

The 17th-century temple was restored in Veliky Novgorod, Interfax was told on Tuesday at the Novgorod State Museum-Reserve (GMZ). “The restoration and restoration work in the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker from the village of Myakishevo was completed at the Vitoslavlitsa Museum of Folk Wooden Architecture,” the agency’s source said. During the restoration, the…