On Monday, 22, April, 2024, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain, President of the Conference of European Churches (CEC), delivered a moving address @UKParliament at the invitation of @ROconect. The event centred on “Ensuring Remembrance: Advocating For Education and Commemoration of the Roma Holocaust in the UK”. In his speech, the Archbishop…

This past Sunday, April, 21, 2024, the Philoptochos of the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in New York City, with the assistance of the Annunciation GOYA, held their Pasta Drive food pantry. Over 160 boxes of pasta were delivered to the Advent Lutheran Food Pantry NYC. For anyone who would still like to donate boxes of…

Parish History It is often said that the “father” of our church is Mr. Elias Betzios. This title was bestowed upon him because of the following circumstances: Mr. Betzios was a longtime board member of the neighboring St. Demetrios Church of Astoria. When he relocated his family to the Whitestone area, the distance was too…

On Tuesday, 23 April 2024, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the Greek Embassy in Paris, where he was warmly welcomed by the Ambassador of Greece to France, His Excellency Mr. Dimitrios Zevelakis, and also by the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure & Transport, Ms. Christina Alexopoulou. In the afternoon, the Patriarch made his way to the…

With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, the Archdiocesan District of Adelaide was blessed to host the Very Reverend Archimandrite Fr Antipas from the Holy Mountain of Mt Athos. Fr Antipas’ visit extended from 16th to the 21st of April 2024, and included a full program offering the sacrament of Holy Confession,…

On Tuesday afternoon preceding Palm Sunday, 23 April 2024, His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and all Scandinavia, accompanied by the Vicar of St. George’s Cathedral in Stockholm, Archimandrite Bartholomew Iatridis, attended a speech organised by the Greek Embassy in Stockholm on postal voting at the ABF Conference Center. The Minister of Interior of Greece,…

Following the Patriarchal Synod’s decision on 15 February 2024, to separate the Holy Metropolis of Burundi from the state of Rwanda and establish the Holy Diocese of Rwanda as an independent ecclesiastical province of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa, His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa appointed Bishop…

At a time when respect for universal principles and values, unfortunately, gives way to selfishness and self-interest, to greed and acquisitiveness, it is imperative that we turn our gaze to the past in order to remember, and inspire our young children with, the illustrious examples of ethos and selflessness that history has to show us….

Lazarus has now been in the tomb for two days. He sees the dead from the beginning of time. He gazes at strange and frightening sights, at a countless multitude being held prisoner in the bonds of Hades. Therefore do his sisters lament bitterly, as they look at his tomb. But Christ is coming to…