Families across our Metropolis are invited to join us for a Metropolis Family Winter Camp at St. Nicholas Ranch & Retreat Center, this December 27-30, 2023. Let’s celebrate the family this nativity season and gather for a wonderful four-day camp, packed with fun and adventure while growing closer to Christ and to each other! We…

In a revitalized effort to connect with our alumni and strengthen our connections, we are coming to you! This December, we invite you to join us across the country to celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Dionysios as an Ionian Village family. As the patron saint of forgiveness, having helped his brother’s murderer in a…

On Thursday, 16 November 2023, with the Blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, His Grace Bishop Bartholomew attended the Interfaith Parliamentary Breakfast at Parliament House in Canberra. The event was organised by the Australian Catholic University where Federal Parliamentarians, Foreign Diplomats and Leaders of various faiths gathered together. A special guest this year…

On Wednesday, 15 November 2023, His Eminence Metropolitan Panteleimon of Xanthi and Peritheorion visited the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, accompanied by the Protosyncellus of the Holy Metropolis, Archimandrite of the Ecumenical Throne, Father Sophronios Goutzinis, and Mr. Dimitrios Grammatikas, Guide and clerk of the Holy Metropolis. His Eminence Metropolitan Panteleimon and his entourage were warmly…

On Monday, 13 November 2023, during the Vespers Service for Saint Gregory Palamas, His Eminence Metropolitan Kallinikos of Kastoria conducted the official opening service for the wonderful Chapel that was erected and painted before the Fall of Constantinople and before the conquest of Kastoria by the Ottomans, during the glorious era of Hesychasm and Saint…

His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece expressed his profound shock at the distressing situation in Gaza during his meeting with Palestine’s Ambassador to Greece, Mr. Yussef Dorkhom, reiterating the urgent need to cease hostilities and commence dialogue. Mr. Yussef Dorkhom highlighted the dire circumstances in Gaza, lamenting the loss of 12,000 lives,…

His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East, charged His Eminence Metropolitan Athanasios of Latakia and its Dependencies, and His Eminence Metropolitan Ephrem of Aleppo and Alexandretta and their Dependencies with the task of visiting Amman, the capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Their task was to bring to the Church…

On Sunday, 12 November 2023, in Adelaide, in the presence of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, the official celebratory dinner for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Holy Monastery of Saint Nectarios, Croydon Park, took place in a joyful and emotionally charged atmosphere. The dinner, which included traditional music and dancing, was…

This Christmas season will be memorable at Pantocrator Monastery in Dragănești-Vlașca, in Romania’s southern county of Teleorman. The gifts presented to Baby Jesus by the three wise men from the East will be brought to Romania for the first time on December 22 and remain until December 28. “The three magi who came to worship…