(July 27, 2023) — His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America made his inaugural visit to Ionian Village (IV), the international summer camping ministry of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese. The highly anticipated visit commemorated the camp’s 50th anniversary, the celebration of which— delayed in 2020 due to the pandemic— proved to be a joyous and memorable…

July 30, 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…

Dr. Anastasios Koularmanis, the Director of the Department of Greek Education, will soon be sharing a series of articles that center on Greek Education, with a particular emphasis on spotlighting several Day-Schools. Greek parochial education in America has a long-standing tradition that dates back to the late 19th century. From the early days of Greek…

Wildfires in the central Greek prefecture of Magnisia claimed the lives of two people on Wednesday, while they continued to raze forests, pastures and farms into the night. In the first instance, a 69-year-old woman died while she was stuck in a camping trailer in the rural mountain area of Platanos. The woman was reportedly…

“The Omogeneia in Australia mourns together with our brothers and sisters in Greece and around the world, the loss of two young children who sacrificed their own lives to save the lives of their fellow human beings. Two real heroes who consciously served, with valour and self-sacrifice, the common good.” The above is noted by…

Last week, His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije addressed a number of global religious and secular leaders, including the primates of the Local Churches, calling on them to do what they can to help His Eminence Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod, the abbot of the Kiev Caves Lavra who is being held in a Kiev detention center. As…

Many Orthodox faithful have been flocking to a village about 25 miles north of Athens to see a church that was saved from raging wildfires by the power of prayer. The Church of St. Paisios the Athonite, next to the Monastery of the Holy Infants in the village of Dervenochoria was saved, as well as…

Pemptousia and Saint Nicholas and Saint John the Apostle Students Parish Cluj-Napoca, would like to invite you to join us for a digital fellowship on Friday 28th July 2023 at 07:30 PM Athens time. The talk will be in Greek with simultaneous translation into ROMANIAN, ENGLISH, FRENCH, GEORGIAN, ARABIC and RUSSIAN There will be time…

His Beatitude Patriarch John X and the accompanying delegation visited the Monastery of St. Antonios the Great in Arizona. His Beatitude was accompanied by Metropolitan Saba Esber and Bishops Thomas Joseph, John Abdullah and Anthony Michael. Upon his arrival at the monastery, Bishop Gerasimos (Ecumenical Patriarchate), Father Paisios, the abbot of the monastery, and the…