The American School of Classical Studies at Athens held its annual Gala on the evening of May 8, 2025. The Overseers of the Gennadius Library selected the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople as the 2025 recipient of the prestigious Gennadius Prize.
Dr. Lucas Briola, Ecclesiologist and Assistant Professor of Theology at St. Vincent University spoke with the Orthodox Observer’s Dr. Claire Koen about the newly elected Pope Leo XIV.
I am so very privileged to represent the Mother Church of Constantinople this evening, and to accept, on behalf of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the distinguished Gennadius Prize, the famed Library’s most prestigious accolade. It is particularly significant, as we are honored to have among us the venerable presence of His Eminence, Elder Metropolitan […]
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America welcomed today, May 7, 2025, His Eminence Metropolitan Apostolos, Geron of Derkon to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Headquarters.
The Righteous Martyr Theodosia, having Constantinople as her homeland, struggled in asceticism in her own convent, which was located in that same imperial city. Filled with zeal for the veneration of the holy icons, she withstood Emperor Leo the Isaurian's impious command that the icons be destroyed. She received the martyr's crown when a soldier […]
The Holy New Confessor John, a native of Russia, was captured during the Russian campaign against the Turks in 1711 and was thereafter sold into slavery in Asia Minor. In this condition he struggled to serve God in piety even while he served his earthly master in all that was needful. He remained steadfast in […]
Because of the vicissitudes of time, the venerable head of the holy Forerunner was lost for a third time and rediscovered in Comana of Cappadocia through a revelation to 'a certain priest, but it was found not, as before, in a clay jar, but in a silver vessel, and "in a sacred place." It was […]
One of the most ancient cities of the Promised Land was Shechem, also called Sikima, located at the foot of Mount Gerazim. There the Israelites had heard the blessings in the days of Moses and Jesus of Navi. Near to this town, Jacob, who had come from Mesopotamia in the nineteenth century before Christ, bought […]
This great and renowned sovereign of the Christians was the son of Constantius Chlorus (the ruler of the westernmost parts of the Roman empire), and of the blessed Helen. He was born in 272, in (according to some authorities) Naissus of Dardania, a city on the Hellespont. In 306, when his father died, he was […]
This friend of the court brief is the most recent effort of the Assembly of Bishops to further its particular interest of safeguarding the liberty of all Americans to practice their faith.
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