With great enthusiasm the students and teachers of the Greek School of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia “Saint Kosmas the Aetolian” (Aetolian College), at the School Campus of St. Andrew, in the Melbourne suburbs of East Burwood and Vermont South, organised impressive celebrations to bid farewell to this school year. Specifically, on Friday, 1 December…

On Sunday, 3 December 2023, the presentation of the photo book by the Greek-Australian documentary photographer, Effy Alexakis, with the title “The Heart of Giving”, took place in a highly emotionally charged atmosphere. The book, which is dedicated to the rich philanthropic work of the recently retired clergyman of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia, Archimandrite…

On Monday, 4 December 2023, the memory of the Hieromartyr Saint Seraphim, Bishop of the Phanar, was celebrated with due ecclesiastical splendour at the Cathedral of the Annunciation of Our Lady, in Sydney, in which His Eminence Metropolitan Seraphim of Sevasteia celebrates his patronal feast day. The Matins Service and Divine Liturgy were both presided…

On Sunday, 3 December 2023, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was present joined in prayer from the altar, during the Divine Liturgy which took place at the Venerable Patriarchal Church of Saint George, in Phanar, which His Eminence Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Nikopolis and Preveza officiated at. Also present for the Divine Liturgy where His Eminence…

On Tuesday, December 5, 2023, at 6:15 p.m., at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas Seoul, there will be a Great Vespers of the Feast Day of St. Nicholas, the Artoklasia, and the Divine Liturgy. A common Agape Meal will follow. On Wednesday, December 6, 2023, from 9:00-11:30 a.m., there will be the Service of Orthros…

On the afternoon of Monday 13 November 2023, the Metropolitan of Korea and Exarch of Japan Ambrosios and Fr Anthonios Lim Jong-hun attended an event for the establishment of the Korean Christian Museum in Seoul held at the CCMM Building in Yeouido. The Korean Christian Museum in Seoul is a project initiated by the National…

On Friday, 24th November 2023, the Archdiocesan Cathedral of Divine Wisdom hosted a concert honoring the 175th anniversary of its famous polyphonic choir. At the conclusion of the concert, which included musical pieces and arrangements from the various periods of its long history, the V. Rev. Archimandrite Nephon Tsimalis, Chancellor, read an archpastoral greeting from…

In the Orthodox Church the verb “I am defeated” does not exist, but there exists the verb “I learn”. “In the Orthodox Church the word “failure” does not exist, because there exists the word “opportunity” In the Orthodox Church, distance does not separate or alienate people. What separates and alienates people from one another is…

On Friday, 1 December 2023, the Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff, General Konstantinos Floros, met in his office with the Ambassador of Australia to Greece, Ms. Alison Duncan. Their meeting, which took place in a particularly warm atmosphere, was the second in a short period of time, with the previous one taking…