On Tuesday, 2 January 2024, His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch spoke with His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, to whom he expressed his personal wishes, as well as those of his Church, on the occasion of the beginning of the new year. The Ecumenical Patriarch warmly replied and also offered his wishes in return,…

On Monday morning, 1 January 2024, on the feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and the commemoration of the memory of Saint Basil the Great, the Matins and Divine Liturgy took place at the Holy Church of Panagia Koumariotissa in Neochorion, Constantinople. The Hierarchical Divine liturgy was presided over by…

The memory of the Finding of the Holy Relics of the Holy Great Martyr Ephraim the New and Wonderworker was commemorated for another year, on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 2 and 3, 2024, at the Holy Metropolis of Kifissia, Amarousion, Oropos and Marathon, and specifically at the Holy Monastery of the Annunciation of the Theotokos…

With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, His Grace Bishop Elpidios of Kyanea, Archiepiscopal Vicar of the Archdiocesan District of Perth, officiated at the Matins Service and Divine Liturgy on the first of January for the dual feast of the Circumcision of Jesus Christ and St Basil the Great, at the Church…

What is of great significance, is not what we do when we are undergoing our different ordeals, but how we behave when we will have gone through an experience of a person who has been wounded”, emphasises His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, in the first video message of spiritual benefit for the new year,…

On Wednesday, January 3, 2024, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America warmly welcomed His Grace Bishop Mesrop Parsamyan, the primate of the Eastern Diocese of America in the Armenian Church, to the Archdiocesan Headquarters. Bishop Mesrop, consecrated to the episcopacy on October 8, 2023, by Catholicos Karekin II in Etchmiadzin, Armenia, made his first visit…

On December 23, 2023, the Byzantine Choir of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh hosted a Choral Concert at St. Elijah Serbian Orthodox Church in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. Celebrating their 25th Year Anniversary, the Byzantine Choir of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh is more active than ever and yielding to a bright future of younger…

His Eminence Metropolitan Apostolos of New Jersey invites all the Clergy and faithful from the Northern New Jersey Region of our sacred Metropolis to participate in the Annual Epiphany Celebration and Blessing of the Waters on Saturday, January 6, 2024, at Molos Restaurant in Weehawken, New Jersey. goarch.org

On December 9th, Philoxenia House was visited by several parishes in the Metropolis of Boston to learn more about the ministries offered by the Metropolis in the greater Boston area: On Saturday, December 9th, the Dormition of the Virgin Mary Philoptochos (Sommerville, MA), accompanied by Fr. Anthony Tandilyan, visited the Philoxenia House. The Philoptochos generously…