Following a five-day pilgrimage and educational visit to the monastic community of Mount Athos, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, accompanied by the graduating students of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (Boston), visited […] The post Archbishop Elpidophoros of America visits the Holy Monastery of Timios Prodromos appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
On May 15, Pope Leo XIV signed a document that grew out of a Vatican conversation on artificial intelligence and ethics that had been developing for nearly a decade. He presented it to the world […] The post What must not be lost: Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical confronts artificial intelligence appeared first on Orthodox […]
MOUNT ATHOS – His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America completed a pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain of Athos together with His Grace Bishop Ioannis of Phocaea, clergymen of Archdiocese, and the graduating seniors of Holy […] The post Archbishop Elpidophoros visits the Holy Mountain together with Holy Cross seniors appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
The final dinner of the pilgrimage and educational tour of Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, alongside the graduating class of the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Boston, took place at Mount Athos. The […] The post Archbishop Elpidophoros and seminarians gather at the Philotheou Monastery appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that Türkiye violated the rights of two Greek Orthodox priests by removing them from the governing boards of Greek Orthodox minority foundations in Istanbul solely because they […] The post European Court of Human Rights rules against Türkiye for excluding Orthodox priests from minority foundation boards in […]
Saint David, who was from Thessalonica, lived a most holy and ascetical life. For some years, he took up his dwelling in the branches of an almond tree, exposed to all the elements and extremes of the weather. He reposed in peace during the reign of Saint Justinian the Great, in the sixth century. Reading […]
This Martyr practiced the ascetic discipline in Nisibis of Mesopotamia; she was of such great beauty that the report of her came to the persecutor Selenus, and every attempt was made to make her deny Christ. After many horrible tortures, she was cruelly dismembered by the executioners, then beheaded, in the year 310 (or, according […]
In Orthodox Christian countries, individuals traditionally celebrate their nameday instead of their birthday. Since Orthodox Christians are usually named after a saint or feast day of the Church, all those having the same name celebrate together on that saint's feast or the particular feast of the Church.All those named after St. Elizabeth, Mother of the […]
He that was greater than all who are born of women, the Prophet who received God's testimony that he surpassed all the Prophets, was born of the aged and barren Elizabeth (Luke 1: 7) and filled all his kinsmen, and those that lived round about, with gladness and wonder. But even more wondrous was that […]
As for Saint Methodios, he was born to wealthy parents in Syracuse of Sicily about the end of the eighth century. Being a presbyter, he was sent as an ambassador to Rome in 815 or 816 on behalf of Patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople, who had been exiled by Leo the Armenian (see June 2). After […]
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