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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
BOSTON – On Tuesday, January 2, 2023 the Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at Ground Zero in New York received 1,155 visitors, according to the security firm at the entrance that counts every visitor.
It is reminded here that St. Nicholas was given ‘to the total liturgical life and use as a church’ in which the name of God is glorified just three weeks ago, on December 5, with a Great Vespers service, and on the Feast Day of St. Nicholas December 6 with a Divine Liturgy.
Auxiliary Bishop Apostolos of Medeia officiated at the Sacred Services because Archbishop Elpidophoros was on a pilgrimage trip to Jerusalem and Amman, Jordan.
The ‘Thyranoixia’ or ‘Opening of the Doors’ ceremony was performed by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on November 2, 2021 during his Apostolic visit to the United States. The ‘engenia’ or consecration of the nave was done on July 4, 2022 by Archbishop Elpidophoros and coincided with the beginning of 46th Clergy-Laity Congress of the Archdiocese.
The original nave of St. Nicholas was completely destroyed during the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. Since then, 21 years passed due to various obstacles and difficulties and the Shrine was completed only recently at a cost more than ninety million dollars.
It is emphasized here that the new St. Nicholas was completed because of the initiatives and hard work of the organization The Friends of St. Nicholas led by Michael Psaros, Dennis Mehiel, and Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Patriarchate Fr. Alexander Karloutsos. It was designed by renowned architect Santiago Calatrava and the iconography by priest-monk Loukas of the Monastery of Xenophontos on Mount Athos.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.