Greek Orthodox Church

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece on Monday afternoon.

At the meeting at Maximos Mansion, the two leaders discussed issues related to the development of the Greek Orthodox Church assets, particularly promoting the investment involving Church-owned land in Schisto, announced in September 2022.

Greece's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday issued a statement expressing its "deep concern" over recent developments in the predominantly Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem after Israeli forces started bulldozing a 5,000 square meter plot of land owned by the Greek Orthodox Church.

A 170-year-old Greek Orthodox church, that struggled to collect donations, in the southern Lebanon village of Kfeir has been renovated by a Turkish agency.

Christians in Istanbul gathered yesterday in the Aya Yorgi Greek Orthodox Church for a ceremony officiated by Fener Greek Patriarch Bartholomew.

In a speech he delivered at the mass, the patriarch wished peace in Ukraine and the world.

The Greek Orthodox Church is the largest and most influential institution in the history of the Greek presence in the United States

Yesterday, Sunday, December 5, the head of the Catholic Church met with the head of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop of Athens, Ieronymos II, in the Athens Archdiocese.

The Greek Church has granted an area at Schistos since 2005 to this end

Greek and Greek Cypriot nationalists have targeted Archbishop Elpidophoros Lambriniadis, the head of the Greek Orthodox Church in U.S., after he attended the opening ceremony of the Turkish House (Türkevi) in New York City with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar.

By George Gilson

Those who are at all familiar with the Eastern Orthodox Church are well aware that Archbishop Elpidophoros (Lambriniadis) of America long before becoming leader of the Greek Orthodox Church in the US was one of its most eminent and respected hierarchs.

A Greek Orthodox priest who had reportedly just been defrocked in a Church Court at Athens' Petraki Monastery threw acid at and injured six of the Metropolitan bishops who sat on the Synodal Court.