The Feast Day of St. Spyridonas was celebrated on Thursday throughout the island republic of Cyprus, the saint’s birthplace, and with particular splendor at the Cathedral dedicated to St. Spyridonas, in Nicosia’s Strovolos municipality. A celebratory Divine Liturgy was officiated by the Bishop of Mesaoria, His Grace Grigorios, with numerous worshippers hailing from the…

  The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, was proclaimed as an honorary citizen of Bucharest this week, during an event held at the Patriarchal residence. Bucharest Mayor Gabriela Firea presented the Patriarch with a relevant proclamation by the city’s municipal council, adding that “… this act, Your Beatitude, is trivial, compared to what…

  The Civil Governor of Mt. Athos, Athanasios Martinos, has pledged to finance the complete renovation of the Theological School of Halki and the adjacent Monastery of the Holy Trinity, both located on the small Marmara Sea isle of the same name. Martinos, a noted shipowner and philanthropist, reiterated his pledge after being received by…

The Abbot of the Holy Monastery of St. Lavra, in the northwest Peloponnese, Archimandrite Eusevios Spanos, provides an exclusive interview this week to the Orthodoxia news agency and journalist Nikos Zaimis. Among others, the Abbot of the historic monastery, considered as the location from where the Greek independence struggle was proclaimed in the Peloponnese in…

  On 13th December 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met with H.E. Mr. D. Bala Venkatesh Varma, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation. They were joined in the meeting by Mr. Vipin Kumar, second secretary of India’s diplomatic…

If you wish to explore the Holy Scripture, and you overcome your laziness and apply yourself, thirsting for the knowledge, then every good thing will be yours. You will fill your mind with the divine light. Then, when you apply that light to the doctrines of the Church, you will very easily recognize everything that…

  UNESCO has inscribed Byzantine chant in Cyprus and Greece on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity The decision was taken by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage meeting in Bogota which inscribed one more element on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of…

  His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on Sunday performed the re-consecration of a 200-year old church dedicated to saint Demetrios the myrrh-gusher in Bucharest’s old town. In his sermon, the Patriarch referred to the crippled woman in the Gospel reading from Luke noting that she received healing ‘in a place of prayer, where God’s word is…

  His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania received Bucharest’s Honorary Citizenship for his contribution to the spirituality and education of the Romanian people. The Patriarch of Romania received the award from Bucharest Mayor Gabriela Firea at the Patriarchal Residence Thursday. Mayor Firea was accompanied by a delegation of the Bucharest City Hall including the former…