On Friday, April 17, 2026, His Grace Bishop Mesrop Parsamyan, Primate of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern Diocese), visited His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America at the Archdiocese Headquarters. The two hierarchs exchanged warm […] The post Bishop Mesrop Parsamyan conducts Paschal visit with Archbishop Elpidophoros appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
Yesterday, April 16, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America visited Zoodohos Peghe Greek Orthodox Church in the Bronx, New York, where he celebrated the Great Vespers of the Life-Giving Fountain. “Every year, I look forward […] The post Archbishop Elpidophoros visits Zoodohos Peghe Church in the Bronx, New York appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America – Communique It is with sorrow, yet with every hope in the Resurrection of our Lord, that we announce the falling asleep in the Lord of the ever-memorable Elder Joseph, […] The post Elder Joseph, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Saint Nektarios, falls asleep in the Lord appeared first […]
RAFT ISLAND, WA–A large crowd enjoyed the annual Pascha picnic celebration at All Saints Camp and Retreat Center. What initially began as a small celebration of a few families several years ago, this year’s event […] The post Seattle-area Pascha picnic draws over 500 attendees appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
The Holy Land—the land of Christ’s birth, life, crucifixion, and resurrection—marks a boundary artificial intelligence is unable to cross. Bethlehem, the Sea of Galilee, and Golgotha are not lost places like Eden, but sites you […] The post Opinion | The Holy Land is beyond AI appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
Saint Irene was the daughter of a princelet called Licinius; named Penelope by her parents, through a divine revelation she was brought to faith in Christ and at Baptism was renamed Irene. In her zeal for piety she broke in pieces all the idols of her father, who commanded that she be trampled underfoot by […]
This Saint was from Tarsus of Cilicia and contested in martyrdom under Diocletian, in 284: she was cast into a bull fashioned of bronze, which had been heated with fire. Reading copyright Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Brookline, MA, used by permission. All rights reserved.
Close to the Sheep's in Jerusalem, there was a pool, which was called the Sheep's Pool. It had round about it five porches, that is, five sets of pillars supporting a domed roof. Under this roof there lay very many sick people with various maladies, awaiting the moving of the water. The first to step […]
The holy Martyrs Timothy and Mavra were husband and wife. Timothy was from Penapeis in the Thebaid, a reader in the Church, and had been married to Mavra only twenty days when he was betrayed to Arian, the Governor of the Thebaid, as a teacher of the Christians. Arian commanded Timothy to surrender his sacred […]
In the half-century after the First Ecumenical Council held in Nicaea in 325, if there was one man whom the Arians feared and hated more intensely than any other, as being able to lay bare the whole error of their teaching, and to marshal, even from exile or hiding, the beleaguered forces of the Orthodox, […]
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