A bill submitted to the Romanian Senate last month proposes to declare the 15th-16th century leader St. Stephen the Great as a national hero and patron of Romanian culture. The bill would also establish July 2 as a national day dedicated to the saint, reports the Basilica News Agency. St. Stephen reposed in the Lord…

Prot. No. 231/2021 October 17, 2021 Unto the Most Reverend and Right Reverend Hierarchs, Pious Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, Presidents and Members of Parish Councils, Honorable Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Members of Leadership 100, the Day and Afternoon Schools, Philoptochos Societies, the Youth, Greek Orthodox Organizations, and the entirety of the…

Yesterday, His Beatitude pape and patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa Theodoros II accompanied by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios, Bishop Silvester, Priests and Deacons Traveled with His Company to Nsinze Namutumba District at the parish of St. Spyridon. Later he visited the church of Holy Resurrection in Jinja City. In both parishes the choirs sung…

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The Greek-language book “Holy Knowledge: The Beauty Within”, by the Metropolitan of Nafpaktos & Aghios Vlasios, His Eminence Ierotheos, has been unveiled by Vatopedi Publications. The book was inspired by the synaxes (assemblies) dating from 2015, when His Eminence was invited by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of…

Pilgrims from around Romania are traveling to the Metropolitan Cathedral in the city of Iasi this week on the occasion of Thursday’s feast day of the Righteous Paraskeve of Serbia.

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, on Wednesday began his pastoral tour of Uganda, beginning from the St. Nicholas Cathedral where he was warmly welcomed by the Elder Archbishop Makarios of Kampala, Bishop of Gulu and Eastern Uganda Silvester and multitudes of faithful. The Patriarch of…

A strong 6.3 on the Richter scale earthquake on Tuesday shook the large island of Crete and the wider eastern Mediterranean region, with an epicenter pinpointed at 14 kilometers off the isle’s eastern coast. The latest tremor came some two weeks, with a 5.8 quake, and with an epicenter on land, causing one fatality and…

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, this week received the new speaker of Cyprus’ House of Representatives, Annita Demetriou. The Primate of the Church of Greece warmly welcomed the top Cypriot lawmaker, and recalled his university days in the 1950s, when rallies in favor of Cypriot independence were commonplace in Athens….