With the gracious permission and blessing of His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria and All Africa, His Grace Bishop Chrysostomos of Bukoba embarked on a visit to the Archiepiscopal District of Geita in Tanzania, where he performed the Divine Liturgy and the ordination of two new deacons. On Saturday, 9 March 2024, His…

Following an official invitation, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, accompanied by the Elder Metropolitan Apostolos of Derkoi, flew to Ankara at noon on Tuesday, 12 March 2024, where he attended the Ramadan (Iftar) dinner at the conference centre of the headquarters of the ruling AK Party. The dinner, the 15th in a row, was hosted…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will visit the municipality of Peristeri, Attica, on the 16 April 2024. The reception of the Patriarch will take place at the Exhibition Centre of Peristeri (at 17:30), where an event will take place as part of the celebrations for the Jubilee (50th anniversary) of the Holy Metropolis of Peristeri,…

Wednesday, March 13, 2024, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese National Girl Delegates to the United Nations were welcomed to Archdiocese Headquarters by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America. “This Program provides a platform for young women to address issues related to rights of women all over the world, their individual rights, and their beliefs,” His Eminence…

His Beatitude Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria, a soft-spoken theologian who sought to restore the reputation of the Bulgarian Orthodox church hurt by links to businessmen and communist secret police, died at the age of 78, the church said late on Wednesday, 14 March 2024. “After a long illness, His Beatitude the Bulgarian Patriarch and Sofia…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, accompanied by the chancellor of the Archdiocese, V. Rev. Archimandrite Nektarios Papazafiropoulos, made a pilgrimage to the Sacred Patriarchal and Stavropegial Monastery of St. Irene Chrysovalantou to offer memorial prayers for the repose of the soul of its late Abbot, Bishop Ierotheos of Eukarpia, who fell asleep in the…

Dear sisters in the Lord, I am so happy to welcome all of you here at our National Headquarters today so that I can personally tell you how very pleased I am to meet you – our Greek Orthodox Archdiocese National Girl Delegates to the UN, for the first time as an official program. This…

The largest standing architecture at the ruined city of Sardis is not its famous Temple of Artemis, the fourth largest Ionic temple of antiquity, but is instead the massive but little-published fortification that sits on its Acropolis. This paper delivers preliminary results from new study of the Byzantine fortifications on the Acropolis at Sardis, part…

Washington—George Vorkas, Chairman of the AHEPA Educational Foundation announced today that the Foundation has agreed to establish the Zavaras-Angelidou Scholarship for Greek Studies. “We are proud to announce that Dr. Katerina A. Zavaras-Angelidou MD, has agreed to establish the Zavaras-Angelidou Scholarship for Greek Studies. The gift will be added to the value of the AHEPA…