Athens, March 6, 2024 Photo: romfea.gr Metropolitan Theodoritos of Elaia, a retired hierarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, reposed in the Lord yesterday evening at the age of 84. He had been hospitalized recently at the NIMTS Hospital in Athens, where he breathed his last, reports Vima Orthodoxias. He served as an ordained clerics…
Florence, Arizona, March 6, 2025 Photo: Facebook A beautiful new chapel has opened at St. Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Monastery in Florence, Arizona. St. Anthony’s was founded in the summer of 1995 by Elder Ephraim, a spiritual child of St. Joseph the Hesychast and former abbot of the Athonite Philotheou Monastery. When inspecting the property…
Bucharest, March 5, 2025 Photo: basilica.ro His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania celebrated 35 years of episcopal service on Tuesday, March 4. The future Patriarch was consecrated as Vicar Bishop of the Archdiocese of Timișoara at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Timișoara on March 4, 1990, shortly after the fall of communism, reports the Basilica…
New York, March 5, 2025 The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia has issued a directive regarding the Church-wide celebration of the 100th anniversary of the repose of two great Holy Hierarchs and Confessors of the 20th-century—St. Tikhon of Moscow and St. Jonah of Hankow. The Synod’s decrees from its…
We’ve entered the great and profitable arena of fasting, of Great Lent in Questions and AnswersGreat Lent is a very special time, including in the Church calendar, but not all days of Great Lent are the same. “>Great Lent, which has opened before us that we might spiritually labor and pass through this period…
