A closely watched meeting between members of a committee tasked by the standing Holy Synod with conducting dialogue with the current government, on the one hand, and the education and religious affairs minister, will take place on Tuesday at the Petraki Monastery in northern Athens. The latest meeting comes within the framework of ongoing deliberations…

A general assembly of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s clergy has been convened for Thursday, Feb. 21, at the Aghios Eleftherios Cathedral in central Athens, in light of the fluid developments in Church-state relations. Representatives of all of the Holy Metropolises around Greece have been invited to attend.

In his interview to the Athens News Agency, Mr Gavroglu referred to changes in school text books, in the wake of the recent ratification of the Prespa agreement. He stressed that changes deal with historical, archaeological and education issues, ones he said are "under the prism of irredentist references, but also issues dealing with scholarly…

The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople has reiterated its positions on matter of Church-state relations in Greece as well as issue of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s autocephaly. The Patriarchate continues to calmly address the issues that have recently emerged, maintaining its standing positions, as enunciated by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, himself. “The Mother Church is not…

During its working session on February 14, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate established a new feast dedicated to all the Orthodox Saints who were soldiers and who died as martyrs for Christ. The Synaxis of All Military Saints will be celebrated every year on July 8 by the Church of Constantinople. The proposal…

On 16th February 2019 His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, accompanied by His Eminence Panteleimon Metropolitan of Brazzaville and Gabon and His Grace Theodoros Bishop of Babylonos, arrived by air in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo. At the Augustino Neto International Airport His Beatitude was welcomed by His Excellency…

On Sunday February 10, Their Graces the Bishops Dr. Mitrophan of Canada and Teodosije of Raska-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija, visited the pious people of the city of Windsor and surroundings and on that occasion served Holy Liturgy in Windsor’s Gracanica Church. The Holy Liturgy was served by both Bishops together with Archimandrite Ilarion, Prior of Draganac…

On 15th February 2019 His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, accompanied by His Grace Theodoros Bishop of Babylonos, Abbot of the Holy Patriarchal Monastery of St George in Old Cairo, arrived in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of the Congo, as part of his official visit to the country…

On Sunday, February 10, 2019, following the Divine Liturgy, an invigorating six-week lecture series on the Orthodox Christian Theology in its Historical Context began. This series is offered by Rev. Dr. Vasilije Vranic, parish priest of St. Luke Serbian Orthodox Church in Washington, DC/Potomac, MD. Each Sunday from February 10 through March 17, 2019, Fr….