On the morning of Monday, April 9/22, 2024, His Beatitude, our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos accepted: The recently ordained by the Most Reverend Metropolitan Kyriakos of Nazareth, as deacon and Priest Marko Nirman with his wife and daughters and with the monk Irinarchos, Supervisor of the Holy Monastery of the Holy Apostles Peter…

On Sunday, 21 April 2024, the Patriarchal Commissioner, His Eminence Elder Metropolitan Apostolos of Derkoi, officiated during the Service of the 6th (and final) Lenten Vespers of Great and Holy Lent, at the Church of the Holy 12 Apostles of the Feriköy Community in Constantinople. Also present for the Vespers was His Eminence Metropolitan Stephanos…

On the 5th Sunday of Lent, 21 April, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia visited the Parish-Community of Saint Savvas the New of Kalymnos in the suburb of Banksia in Sydney, and liturgised on the occasion of the feast day of Saint Mary of Egypt and the finding of the relics of the Patron Saint…

Ahead of ANZAC Day (April 25), a National Day of Remembrance in Australia, as well as in New Zealand, St Spyridon’s Parish in Kingsford, Sydney commemorated the men and women of the Corps who fought and sacrificed for worthy ideals during World War I and World War II, and in other missions over the past…

His Eminence Metropolitan Petru issued a message honouring the victims of the organised famine that ravaged Bessarabia from 1946 to 1947. “We bow our heads and knees to the memory of the reposed and promise never to forget their suffering and the lesson they left us,” the Metropolitan of Bessarabia said. This commemoration takes place…

Her Excellency Tamar Beruchashvili, Georgia’s Ambassador to Bucharest, visited the Library of the Holy Synod at St Anthimos Monastery on Thursday, April 18. Consul David Chachava accompanied the Georgian Ambassador. The Very Rev. Archimandrite Policarp Chitulescu, the Library of the Holy Synod director, welcomed the Georgian officials. The purpose of the visit was to coordinate…

Friday evening, a delegation from the Diocese of Alexandria and Teleorman arrived in Paris, bearing the sacred relics of Saint Mary Magdalene. The reliquary remained at the Three Holy Hierarchs church in La Courneuve, north of the French capital, until Sunday. The relics were welcomed by His Grace Nectarie of Brittany, Assistant Bishop to the…

On Sunday, April 21, 2024, the Catechism School of the Ascension Greek Orthodox Church in Fairview, New Jersey held their 2024 Pascha Retreat. This year’s theme was Holy Communion. The children watched the video “How is Communion Prepared?” Father Christos explained key details and the children listened carefully. The children took home a puzzle they…

Yesterday, April 21, 2024, the community of Saints Constantine and Helen in Jackson Heights, NY hosted a Midnight Run. Parishioners came together and donated, helped prepare meals, and delivered meals as a part of this volunteer effort. The Midnight Run Organization: “is a volunteer organization dedicated to finding common ground between the housed and the…