Great Vespers Officiated by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros - 28 June 2020 - St.Peter the Apostle Greek Orthodox Church,Bronx, New York

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Divine Liturgy Officiated By His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros - 21 June 2020 - Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church, Middletown, New York

Extraordinary Session: Patriarch Bartholomew to Switzerland

On 21 June 2020,His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will fly to Geneva, Switzerland for an Extraordinary Session of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.The session will be held at the Orthodox Centre of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Chambesy, Geneva.It will run from 23-26 June.
The agenda for the first day will be centered on the pastoral needs in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.All the Metropolitans of Europe will attend,in addition to the standing members of the Synod.*
Founded in June 1966, the Orthodox Centre is compromised of the Institute for Postgraduate Studies in Orthodox Theology;
 Library of the Orthodox Centre; the Museum of Christian Art of the Ecumenical Patriarchate; and the Church​ of St.Paul, Apostle to the Nations.*
Head of the Orthodox Centre is His Eminence Metropolitan Maximos of Switzerland.In the words of Patriarch Bartholomew at Metropolitan Maximos' enthronement in 2018, the Orthodox Centre is to be:
a dynamic place of dialogue,congresses, ecumenical meetings and other events in the service of unity, the promotion of Orthodoxy and Orthodox culture, through the emergence of the Centre's Museum.*

His Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa awarded the Cross of St.Mark to noted journalist Katia Tsimplaki recently - O Πατριάρχης Θεόδωρος τιμά τη δημοσιογράφο Κάτια Τσιμπλάκη με τον Τίμιο ...

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Greek Prime Minister Visits Santorini Metropolitan

On 13 June 2020, His Excellency Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of Greece,paid a courtesy call on the Most Reverend Epiphanios, Metropolitan of Thira,Amorgos and Nisoi at the Metropolis headquarters on the island of Santorini.Mr.Mitsotakis, with two Ministerial staff,had come to Santorini to inaugurate the tourist season.*
His Eminence welcomed the Prime Minister ,thanking him for the official visit and for his struggle to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.They discussed social and ecclesiastical​ issues, and Mr.Mitsotakis expressed his pleasure at meeting one of the worthiest hierarchs of the Church of Greece, the seventh archpastor.
For his part, Metropolitan Epiphanios presented the Prime Minister with an icon of the Saviour with a prayer to bless and strengthen him in the arduous task of governing the fatherland.*
The Metropolis contains several of the Cyclades islands of the Southern Aegean.It has two each of male and female monasteries.*

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Saturday of the Souls - 6 June 2020 - Jerusalem Patriarchate Cemetery - TO ΣΑΒΒΑΤΟ ΤΩΝ ΨΥΧΩΝ ΣΤΟ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΟ ΚΟΙΜΗΤΗΡΙΟ ΙΕΡΟΣΟΛΥΜΩΝ

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Cyprus: Metropolitan Isaias Remembers Emperor Konstantinos

On 31 May 2020, His Eminence Metropolitan Isaias of Tomasos and Oreini led a memorial service for the last Byzantine Emperor,Konstantinos XI Palaiologos,who died defending the Queen of Cities, Constantinople, from the Ottoman Turks on 29 May 1453.The service was held before a replica of an iconic statue of the heroic Emperor in the Metropolis compound, which includes the new Russian Church of St. Andrew that serves the many Russian expatriates in Cyprus.His Eminence said that:
As long as a Greek heart beats, the memory of the City's fall will be reborn in our souls.*
The Byzantine Empire, over its thousand year history, became a beacon of culture and the humanities,as well as an exponent of the Eastern Orthodox faith.It achieved this through a juxtoposition of classical Greek culture,Roman law and Christianity.They referred to themselves as "the Romaioi", the Romans, because they lived in the Eastern half of the Roman Empire - the half that ultimately survived until 1453 and,in certain respects, even until our own era.
As His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America reflected on 29 May:
What matters most is that the legacy of the Christian Roman Empire is incarnate in the sacred person of the Ecumenical Patriarch and the continuing diakonia (service) of the Great Church that continues to this day.*