Chalcedonianism

It had been a long time since I last spent the Orthodox Easter in the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the old neighborhood of Phanar.

The Holy Fire arrived at the Athens International Airport at 19.30 and was received with honours of a state leader during a special ceremony. The Holy Fire was lit earlier in Jerusalem where the an official  Greek governmental delegation received it and boarded on the Prime Ministerial airplane and flown back to Athens.

Metropolitan of Sweden and All Scandinavia Cleopas issued a statement following the terrorist attack in the city of Stockholm, Friday, expressing solidarity to the victims’ families.

His Eminence, Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia, received an invitation from the Hellenic Society of Norway to attend a charity event they had planed for Saturday, March 18, 2017 in the Norwegian capital.

Meteora is a place of beautiful place as well as a place of spiritual inner searches. It is the second most important religious area after Mount Athos in Greece ans one of the most important in the Orthodox Christianity.

During his official visit to Ukraine, Greek PM Alexis Tsipras received a guided tour of the historic Christian Orthodox Church of St. Sophia. Built in the 11th century AD by many groups of craftsmen, including Greeks, the cathedral’s walls are adorned with beautiful frescoes and magnificent mosaics in the Orthodox tradition, many of which had Greek inscriptions.

The Fener GreekOrthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul has celebrated the birth and baptism of Jesus Christ with a special mass held on Jan. 6.    
    
The celebrations began with a mass held in the Hagia Yorgi Church, adjacent to the patriarchate's garden, led by Patriarch Bartholomew.      

A right-wing NGO and an obscure Orthodox church group have been accused of deliberately provoking the country's Serbian community as it gets ready to mark Orthodox Christmas Eve.

The patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC), Irinej, on Tuesday sent his Christmas message urging believers to live in mutual "brotherly" love.

Serbia's majority Eastern Orthodox Christians will celebrate Christmas according to the Julian calendar, on Saturday, January 7.

LONDON - Patriarch Irenaeus of the Serbian Orthodox Church has concluded a several-day visit to London that marked the 100th anniversary of the first Orthodox religious service at St Paul's Cathedral.

The patriarch held a meeting with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, urging closer ties among Christian churches.