On November 27, 2013, the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople canonized Elder Porphyrios…
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On November 30, the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates the Feast Day of the Holy Apostle…
In the early 1890’s, the Greek government decided to build a new mosque in Athens…
Thousands of people visit every year to see the exquisite architecture, beautiful paintings, and icons and…
Kim Kardashian, who revealed her deep connection with her Orthodox faith and her Armenian ancestry by baptising her three youngest children at the Etchmiadzin Cathedral in Armenia, has been widely praised for remembering her religious and ancestral roots.
A 30 cm stone that had come off a wall inside the Hagia Sophia in…
On November 26, the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates the Feast Day of Agios Stylianos, the…
On November 25, the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates the Feast Day of Agia Aikaterini the…
“My goal was to create a church that creates the illusion of motion. It feels like the Holy Spirit moves around its axis, God himself moves around its axis, as the church has no obvious front and back,” Greek architect Costas Papatheodorou said about his creation – the Orthodox church of Agia Fotini of Mantinea – which has become known as the second most mysterious church in the world.
The Feast of the Entrance into the Temple of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary is celebrated on November 21 each year. The Feast commemorates when as a young child, the Virgin Mary entered the Temple in Jerusalem.
About halfway up to the Monastery of Agios Ioannis on Patmos is the Cave of the…
November 15 marks forty days until Christmas and in the Greek Orthodox Church, the Nativity…
The Holy See Press Office releases the programme of the Pope’s journey to Cyprus and Greece scheduled from 2 to 6 December.
On November 14 the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates the Feast Day of Agios Filipos the…
On November 13, the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates Agios Ioannis Chrysostomos the Archbishop of Constantinople, who was one of the Three Hierarchs.
On November 11 the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates the Feast Day of Agios Menas. On…
One of the most visited sites on Aegina is the church of Agios Nektarios and…
On November 9, the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates Agios Nektarios the Wonderworker of Aegina. He…
On the 8th of November the Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast day of the Synaxis of the Taxiarchs and Archangels Michael and Gabriel, along with Raphael, and of the other bodiless and heavenly orders, the Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominions, Powers, Authorities, Principalities, Archangels, and Angels.
On the 1st of November, the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates the Feast Day of Agios…