The eve of the feast day of the Unmercenary Physicians, Cosmas and Damian, was celebrated in Thessaloniki with an appeal, towards the faithful, that they respect medical science as a Gift of God to man. Con-celebratory services were held at a dedicated, to the saints, cathedral in the northern Greece metropolis, with all pandemic-related precautions…

Members of the permanent Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece will convene for three days this week, part of the regular sessions of the ecclesiastical body for the month of November.

A Patriarchal Divine Liturgy was celebrated on Sunday at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in New York City, officiated by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All-Holiness Bartholomew I, on the eighth day of his Apostolic tour of the eastern United States. During the service, Archimandrite Christoforos Economides was granted the offikion of Archimandrite of the…

The Church today venerates the memory of Cosmas and Damianos, the Holy Unmercenaries, and their mother Theodota. Today is also the feast day of David, the Righteous of Evia.

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On Friday, the relics of the Serbian King St. Stefan Milutin were carried in procession throughout the streets of the Bulgarian capital, on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of his repose in the Lord. Though he ruled Serbia from 1275 to 1320, his relics have been treasured in the metropolitan cathedral in Sofia for…

St. Demetrios the New Romanian Orthodox Monastery joyously celebrated its patronal feast day last month, bringing together Romanian and Russian hierarchs and faithful from several states. The Liturgy and festivities were also blessed with the presence of the wonderworking Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God, brought by His Grace Bishop Nicholas of Manhattan…

His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro reposed in the Lord on October 30 last year, having led the Montenegro Metropolis for 30 years, In honor of its beloved departed hierarch, the Metropolis held several days of events in his honor last week to commemorate the first anniversary of his repose. In Saturday, on the anniversary…

By Andriana Simos, Argyro Vourdoumpa and Eva Karatzas. The 81st anniversary of OXI Day was commemorated over the weekend with a number of wreath laying ceremonies and heartfelt speeches by Greek communities across Australia. Here’s how the commemorations went down throughout the country: New South Wales: OXI Day events were held across NSW, with many…