Turkish media are claiming that the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s chief secretary has become a member of…
Tag: Orthodoxy
As the greatest feast of Orthodoxy, Easter is celebrated in a unique way in every corner of Greece, with century-old local traditions being revived every year all across the country.
A moveable holiday, the celebration of Easter falls on the first Sunday after the full moon of the spring equinox. All over Greece, a plethora of customs and traditions are observed during the week prior to Easter, the Holy Week.
The most prominent of all Orthodox faith commences at the sacred Monasteries of Agion Oros…
Two years have passed since Patriarch Bartholomew awarded autocephaly to the schismatic Metropolitan of Kiev…
A Greek Orthodox bishop has urged churchgoers to not take the COVID-19 vaccine because, citing…
His Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios, representing Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece,…
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has delivered his Christmas message, encouraging people to keep…
As part of the awareness-raising campaign on the vaccination against the coronavirus, Greek Minister of Health Vassilis Kikilias met with Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and all of Greece on Tuesday.
Beneath a 400CE Byzantine church built in Banyan in the Golan Heights of occupied Syria,…
Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece was discharged from Athens’ Evangelismos Hospital, where he…
The health condition of Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, was described as “satisfactory” in…
A firm believer in God, Yianni has spent the last decade ‘finding himself’, and through that delicate and life-altering process, he came across Orthodox Christianity and the Greek Culture. He has embraced the Greek community and culture with such respect and admiration, that you’d think he was born Greek, even though he is from an Asian background. This is Yianni’s story about his decision to convert to Greek Orthodoxy.
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.
Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Irinej, who had been hospitalized with COVID-19 in a Belgrade hospital since…
Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, who was admitted to Evangelismos Hospital for precautionary…
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, a particularly high number of visitors, and not only Greeks, was…
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and visited the…
Father Metropolitan Ioannis of Langadas took his last breathe this morning and passed away. Regarding…
Following by his mother’s shock cancer diagnosis, Chris Vlahonasios founded the Byzanfest Orthodox Film Festival as a way to “let light shine through that cloud.” Chris shares with Greek City Times the ‘behind the scenes’ of Byzanfest 2020, gives the run down on this year’s award winners, and imparts important messages of faith to our youth.