On July 26th, the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate issued a statement expressing their solidarity with the Greek Orthodox Christian community of Damascus, commending them for the resiliency of their faith in the aftermath of a terror attack that interrupted worship at the Church of the Prophet Elias on the morning of Sunday, June 22nd, […]
In a July 20, 2025 statement, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew condemned Israeli tank fire on The Holy Family Church in Gaza. The Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate echoed His All-Holiness's message, stating "this church bears silent and eloquent witness to the wonderful richness and diversity of religious expression in the Middle East. For this […]
On July 8, International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) issued a statement on its operations in Uganda, after powerful storms badly damaged a school and disrupted life for its students in the region.
"The day and memory are bitter because spiritual error and lack of consciousness fail to ascribe Her full meaning," said His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros in an encyclical issued yesterday. "And yet sweet, because we have the Great Church incarnate in our Venerable Ecumenical Patriarchate, which abides as a spirit-filled space leading the Faithful to embody […]
Fr. Peter Spiro, Director of the FREEDOM Ministry of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, served as a panelist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s national summit on human trafficking, held in Washington, D.C.
Little is known of the holy Martyr Phanourios, except that which is depicted concerning his martyrdom on his holy icon, which was discovered in the year 1500 among the ruins of an ancient church on Rhodes, when the Moslems ruled there. Thus he is called "the Newly Revealed." The faithful pray to Saint Phanourius especially […]
Concerning the Apostle Bartholomew, see June 11Reading copyright Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Brookline, MA, used by permission. All rights reserved.
Our holy Father Kosmas was from the town of Mega Dendron (Great Tree) of Aitolia. At the age of twenty, he went to study at the school of the Monastery of Vatopedi on the Holy Mountain. Later, he came to the Athonite Monastery of Philotheou where he was tonsured. With the blessing of his abbot, […]
Concerning the Dormition of the Theotokos, this is what the Church has received from ancient times from the tradition of the Fathers. When the time drew nigh that our Savior was well-pleased to take His Mother to Himself, He declared unto her through an Angel that three days hence, He would translate her from this […]
When the fame of our Lord Jesus Christ came to Abgar, the ruler of Edessa, who was suffering from leprosy, Abgar sent a messenger named Ananias, through him asking the Savior to heal him of his disease, while bidding Ananias bring back a depiction of Him. When Ananias came to Jerusalem, and was unable to […]
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