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…

On Saturday, 6 January 2024, in the chapel of the Theological School of Halki, on the occasion of the Great Feast Day of the Epiphany, the festive Matins, Great Blessing of the Waters and the Divine Liturgy took place with the participation of many pilgrims from many different regions of Greece. On the eve of…

While His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All greece was initially scheduled to be present at the port of Piraeus for the ritual sanctification of the waters following the Divine Liturgy of the Epiphany, he was unfortunately not able to attend this year. The Archbishop is one of the hundreds of thousands of Greeks…

On Saturday, 6 January 2024, with due ecclesiastical splendour and magnificence, the Great Feast of the Holy Epiphany was celebrated at the Ecumenical Patriarchate. His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, after the matins service, during which he officiated, conducted the service of the Great Blessing of the Waters, and following this presided over the Divine Liturgy,…

“Let us dive deep into the waters of our faith and follow Christ with devotion”, was the paternal prayer and exhortation of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia to the thousands of Greeks, who at noon on Saturday, 6 January 2024, made their way en mass to the pier in the suburb of Frankston in…