New York, NY (June 27, 2023) — On Monday, June 26, 2023, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, made a historic visit to the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center in New York. Speaker McCarthy is the most senior government official to visit the St. Nicholas…

On Monday, June 26, 2023, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy visited St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center in New York. Speaker McCarthy was greeted by Fr. Alex Karloutsos, who represented His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, Chairman of the Friends of Saint Nicholas Michael…

Digital Fellowship from Mount Athos with Elder Ephraim – Interpretation available in Romanian, English, French, Russian, Georgian and Arabic Tuesday Jun 27, 2023, 07:30-09:00 PM Athens Time Interpretation will be available in Romanian, English, French, Georgian. Arabic and Russian. The e-Synaxis is organised by the web magazine PEMPTOUSIA. Please register in advance for this meeting…

On Sunday, June 12/25,2023, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of our Father among the Saints Onuphrius the Egyptian. On this feast, the Church commemorates that Saint Onuphrius lived in the strictest monastic anchorite striving in Egypt, after the example of the prophet Elijah and Saint John the Baptist. Saint Pafnoutius found his dead body and…

On Saturday morning, June 24, the second day of his visit to the city of Volos, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew inaugurated the “Holy Apostles” Nursery School of the Holy Metropolis of Dimitrias and Almyros, in Agria. In his speech, His All-Holiness underlined that it is impossible to question the essential contribution of the Church…

The “Green Patriarch” was honoured by the Church of Greece Thousands of faithful, Hierarchs, Abbots, the Holy Clergy of the Holy Metropolis of Fthiotida, Monastic Brotherhoods and the local Officials welcomed His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, at noon on Sunday, June 25, with feelings of emotion and respect for the venerable head of Orthodoxy in…

Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in as prime minister for a second term on Monday afternoon, after his party achieved a big win on Sunday’s general elections. The swearing-in ceremony was held at the Presidential Palace, in the presence of the President, Katerina Sakellaropoulou and Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece. Mitsotakis then walked to…

On Friday and Saturday, June 16 and 17, 2023, the Metropolitan of Korea and Exarch of Japan Ambrosios made a pastoral visit to Okinawa, Japan. In the Orthodox church of St. Nicholas, which is located inside the American base, Metropolitan Ambrosios with the participation of about thirty believers and some catechumens performed the Orthros and…

With the help of God, on Sunday, June 18, 2023, the Metropolitan of Korea and Exarch of Japan Ambrosios celebrated the Divine Liturgy again in Tokyo, Japan with the priest from America, but of Ukrainian origin, Father Paul Koroluk, as co-celebrant. Thanks to the multi-ethnic congregation, Japanese, Ukrainian, Russian, English, Greek, and Korean were used…