On Saturday, 13th April 2024, at the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother of God (Kykkos) over 200 Youth and Young Adults participated in the 1st Annual Christian Orthodox Thyateira Youth Lenten Retreat particularly focused on The Ladder of Divine Ascent. The retreat was entirely subsidized by COTY and was free of charge to…

On the Fourth Sunday of Lent, April 1/14, 2024, the feast of the Adoration of the Holy Cross was celebrated in the Holy Monastery of the Holy Cross, located in western New Jerusalem near the Jewish Parliament. Following the Status Quo, this feast was also celebrated in the Holy Monastery of the Cross because of…

On the 4th Sunday of Holy and Great Lent, 14 April 2024, the established annual Inter-Orthodox Liturgy was held at the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas in Rotterdam. The Divine Liturgy was presided over by His Eminence Metropolitan Athenagoras of Belgium and Exarch of the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and was joined in concelebration by Their Graces,…

With reverence and due ecclesiastical honour the pious and faithful people of the Holy Metropolis of Drama celebrated the Synaxis of the new Confessor, Saint Georgios Karslidis. On Friday afternoon, 12 April 2024, the reception of the reliquary of Saint George from the Holy Monastery of the Ascension of the Saviour (Sipsa) took place at…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is currently visiting Athens, from Monday 15 April 2024, at the invitation of the Prime Minister of Greece, Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, to attend and speak at the 9th International “Our Ocean” Conference. Upon his arrival at Athens Airport, His All-Holiness was welcomed by representatives of the Hellenic Government and the…

The grave of the late Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte has been desecrated, an act that has deeply saddened and outraged many. Unknown individuals vandalised the grave of the revered Patriarch Neophyte and Metropolitan of Sofia, situated beneath the colonnade of the metropolitan Church St. Nedelya. The perpetrators removed the cross from the grave and inflicted damage…

On Tuesday afternoon, 16 April 2024, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, attended at the invitation of the Hellenic Government and spoke at the 9th International “Our Ocean” Conference, which took place at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre, in Athens. The Prime Minister of Greece, Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, many leaders of foreign countries and figures…

There will be celebrations on Saturday, October 12, 2024, at Saints Constantine and Helen Church in Westland, MI; Saturday, November 2, 2024, Holy Trinity/St. Nicholas Church in Cincinnati, OH; and Saturday, November 9, 2024, Annunciation Church in Buffalo, NY. For more information regarding each event please contact the host parish. Photo: Metropolis of Detroit Summer…

April 16, 2024, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America received the Rev. Deacon John Kokenis, Lieutenant of the United States Navy, at the Archdiocese headquarters. The recently ordained Deacon John, a clergyman of the Holy Metropolis of Chicago and a candidate for Navy Chaplaincy, is visiting New York for the elevation of his cousin, Bishop-elect…