On Sunday 29th October 2023, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain presided during Matins and celebrated Divine Liturgy at the Holy Church of the Twelve Apostles in Hatfield. Among those celebrating were the Very Rev. Archimandrite Nephon Tsimalis, Chancellor, the Rev. Protopresbyter Joseph Paliouras, priest-in-charge, the Rev. Protopresbyter Nikodimos Aggeli and Rev….

The Community of St Demetrios Edmonton in North London celebrated the Feast of the Great-Martyr Demetrios, its Patron Saint and protector, with fervour and grandeur. Hundreds of faithful attended the celebrations. His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain presided during the panegyric Great Vespers, Matins, and the Divine Liturgy joined by His Grace…

On Saturday, November 4, 2023, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America convened the Fall Meeting of the Archdiocesan Council in New York City. The biannual meeting brings together both clergy and lay leaders from across the country for Committee Meetings and to hear reports from departments, ministries and organization of the Archdiocese. In his Keynote…

Your Eminences and Graces, John Catsimatidis, Vice Chair of this Archdiocese Council, Distinguished Members of the Executive Committee and Members of the Archdiocese Council, Senators for Orthodoxy and Hellenism, Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I rejoice at the opportunity to offer my greetings and paternal blessings to you all, as we gather for our regular…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America presided over a special session of the Holy Eparchial Synod today, which is being held in conjunction to this weekend’s Archdiocesan Council meeting in New York, in order to review ongoing affairs concerning the life of the Church. The Archbishop began the meeting by welcoming all the hierarchs who…

On Wednesday, 1 November 2023, His Eminence Metropolitan Arsenios of Austria and Hungary celebrated the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the Parish of the Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian in Graz, Austria.   vema.com.au

The Holy Archdiocese of Australia is pleased to announce that from the collections held on Sunday, 17 September 2023, in all the Greek Orthodox Churches of Australia, the sum of $130,000.00 was collected, for the support of those affected by the severe flooding phenomena that occurred during the month of September in the region of…

Lord Tariq Ahmad, Baron Ahmad of Wimbledon, the UK Minister of State for the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, and the United Nations at the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office, met this morning with His Beatitude Theophilos III, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, at the headquarters of the Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem. The meeting was…

On October 27, 2003, the first nuns arrived at the Sts. Peter and Paul Monastery in the Khabarovsk village of Petropavlovka in far eastern Russia. On Sunday, October 29, this year, the 20th anniversary of the founding of this first convent in the Khabarovsk Diocese was festively celebrated with a hierarchical Divine Liturgy led by…