Metropolitan Cleopas Speaks about Orthodoxy and Hellenism in Scandanavia

ATHENS – The Hellenic Diaspora is filled with thriving communities all over the world, thanks to the contributions and sacrifices of myriads of members, but also their leaders, secular and ecclesiastical.

Archdiocese of Australia Announces Changes to Its Administrative Structure

SYDNEY – The Archdiocese of Australia has recently announced changes to its administrative structure.

Pope Francis is Taken Briefly to a Rome Hospital for Tests after His Weekly Audience

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, who recently had the flu, was brought to a hospital in Rome for diagnostic testing after the papal audience Wednesday, the Vatican said, without giving further details.

Metropolitan Myron of New Zealand Visits the U.S.

BOSTON – His Eminence Metropolitan Myron of New Zealand, accompanied by his entourage, visited the Maliotis Cultural Center in Brookline, MA.

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Clergy Syndesmos of Canada Celebrates Patron Saint

TORONTO – His Eminence Archbishop Sotirios, His Grace Bishop Athenagoras, and 22 Reverend Fathers from Toronto and its suburbs, celebrated the Divine Liturgy for the Feast of St.

Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day Fall on the Same Day this Year

Feb. 14 is a holiday heavyweight this year due to a calendar collision of events.

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New Greek-American Metropolitan of Mexico Ordained Bishop at Age 30 in Constantinople

CONSTANTINOPLE - Unanimously elected as the new Metropolitan of Mexico by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Fr.

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Archbishop Makarios Speaks about Australia Day

SYDNEY – This year 2024, which constitutes a milestone for our local Church, as it marks the first century of her witness here in Australia, holds many opportunities for us to look back, review, and reflect in a fruitful manner.

Metropolitan Augustinos Speaks about the Church in Germany and Worldwide

BOSTON – Metropolitan Augustinos of Germany, with deep knowledge and experience in ecclesiastical and social matters, with broad-mindedness and disarming straightforwardness, spoke in an interview with The National Herald about the Greek community and the Church in Germany, same-sex marriage, the phenomenon of ‘Gerontismos – Elderism’, the Greek-American Community, and many other topics.

Pope Says Holocaust Remembrance Day Reminds World that War Can Never Be Justified

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis recalled the extermination of millions of Jews in calling Wednesday for the upcoming Holocaust Day of Remembrance to reaffirm that war can never be justified and only benefits weapons makers.