His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was present at the funeral service for the late Eleni Sariyiannopoulou, who was for many years a Steward of the private Patriarchal residence. The funeral service was held on Saturday, 28 October 2023, at the Holy Monastery of Baloukli. The funeral service was conducted, following the Patriarchal assignment, by His…

On Tuesday evening, 24 October 2023, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew arrived in Imbros to attend the celebrations of Saint Dimitrios and the anniversary event for the completion of 10 years since the reopening of the Greek Minority School on the island. His All-Holiness was accompanied on this trip by His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of…

Let us pray to the Lord. Lord have mercy. Lord Jesus Christ our God, You ascended into Glory to seat us all in the heavenly places* – we give You thanks this day or the ministry and journey of Protopresbyter Athanasios and his family. Bless them and this Ascension Cathedral whom they serve, so that…

Your Eminence, and beloved brother, Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco, Your Eminences and Your Grace, Reverend Clergy, Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, In the Book of Exodus, it says the following about the People of God, and their sojourn out of Egypt toward the Promised Land: The sons of Israel ate the manna forty…

Let us pray to the Lord. Lord, have mercy. Almighty and Ever-living God, we give You special thanks on this day – OXI Day – for this gathering of love and appreciation of the Holy Metropolis of San Francisco. We ask Your special blessings upon its Shepherd, His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos, who is being recognized…

The Patriarchate of Jerusalem categorically rejects the statements published by the media outlet https://tvxs.gr/ “tv without borders”. The statements that ten Greek teachers and thirteen students of the Patriarchate’s School of Zion in Jerusalem remain trapped in Jerusalem against their will, deprived of the right to travel to Greece is completely and utterly false and…

Today, 26 October 2023, with the appropriate ecclesiastical grandeur, the city of Thessaloniki celebrates two important feast days. On the one hand, its Patron and protector, Saint Dimitrios, on the other, the 111 years since the day it was freed from 482 years of Turkish slavery. On Thursday morning, at the Holy Pilgrimage Church of…

October 28, 2023 Unto the Most Reverend and Right Reverend Hierarchs, Pious Priests and Deacons, Monks and Nuns, Presidents and Members of the Parish Councils, Honorable Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Members of Leadership 100, Day and Afternoon Schools, Philoptochos Societies, Youth, Greek Orthodox Organizations, and entirety of the Christ-loving Plenitude of the Sacred Archdiocese…

Following a phone conversation between His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Albania and His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem, the Autocephalous Church of Albania made an announcement saying the it sympathised with the suffering of the peoples of the wider region. “The archaic law of retribution ‘eye for an eye’ or ‘tit-for-tat’ not only defines the…