On Sunday, 7 January 2024, in the presence of hundreds of faithful, the service of the Blessing of the waters and throwing of the Holy Cross took place at the Bogey Hole ocean pool in the city of Newcastle, New South Wales. This is the location where the Blessing of the Waters for the Feast…

STOCKHOLM – On the eve of the feast of Epiphany, Friday, January 5, 2024, with the temperature reaching -11°C, the service of the Vespers was celebrated at the St. George Cathedral in Stockholm, followed by the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil, with His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia presiding in chorostasia. Immediately…

For the Synaxis of the Theotokos and the memory of the Shepherds, a Divine Liturgy was held on Monday, December 26, 2023 / January 8, 2024, in the Village of the Shepherds, in the Holy Monastery of the Synaxis of the Theotokos and the Shepherds. The blessed spiritual Father of the Lavra of Saint Savvas…

Christmas was celebrated in Doha, Qatar, with ecclesiastical splendour and solemnity. On Sunday, December 11th/24th, 2023, in the evening, the Vespers and Matins began and then the Divine Liturgy was celebrated in Arabic, Greek and English. On the morning of Monday, December 12/25, 2023, Matins and the Divine Liturgy were held in the Greek, Arabic…

On Monday, December 26, 2023/ January 8, 2024, the Patriarchate celebrated Christmas in the Holy Church of Saints Constantine and Helen, as it was celebrated on the 25th of the month in Bethlehem, following the custom of the Holy Church of Jerusalem and the Holy Sepulchre Brotherhood. This feast of Christmas was celebrated after the…

On Saturday, January 6, 2024, His Eminence Metropolitan Apostolos of New Jersey celebrated the Orthros, Hierarchical Divine Liturgy and Great Agiasmos for the Feastday of the Epiphany of our Lord at the Ascension Greek Orthodox Church in Fairview, New Jersey. Following the Divine Liturgy His Eminence was joined by hundreds of Clergy and faithful from…

Beloved Sisters and Brothers in Christ, We gather in our magnificent National Shrine today, named most appropriately for today’s memorial, to remember our beloved, distinguished, and ever-memorable Church Benefactor and National Vice Commander of the Order of Saint Andrew, the late Nicholas J. Bouras, Archon Depoutatos. Together with his beloved spouse, Anna – who we…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America traveled to Tarpon Springs, Florida this past weekend for the blessed Feast of the Epiphany. The annual celebration of Epiphany in Tarpon Springs is the largest outside of Greece. Thousands of faithful Orthodox Christians gathered to celebrate this holy feast and support the teenagers participating in the Cross Dive….

The Feast of the Epiphany was celebrated with due splendour and magnificence after 68 years in the Holy Metropolis of Chalcedon. In the morning the Local Shepherd, His Eminence Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, officiated at the Matins Service and presided over the Poly-Hierarchical Divine Liturgy and the Great Blessing of the Waters, and was…