After a long battle with illness, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Australia Stylianos Harkianakis passed away on this day in 2019 at the age of 83. Archbishop Stylianos served as inaugural and permanent Chairman of the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Churches in Australia and Dean of Saint Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College.
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On March 25, the Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the Annunciation by Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she should become the mother of Jesus Christ the Son of God, as today is exactly nine months before Christmas.
The Annunciation (or Evangelismos in Greek) of the Theotokos is one of the Great Feasts…
Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and All Greece received an honourable welcome in the Syrian…
Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and All Greece will visit the Patriarchate of Antioch and…
The human being as an entity has three divisions of which comprises its existence. by…
The Sunday of Orthodoxy was celebrated on March 5 by the Christian Orthodox population of…
Greek Australian trailblazer is happy to go back to where it all began, Newtown. For…
Today is Sunday of Orthodoxy, which is the first Sunday of Great Lent. The dominant…
Although celebrated throughout Greece, nobody celebrates ‘Clean Monday’ quite like the residents of Galaxidi who hold an annual ‘flour war’ or alevromoutzouromata (flour smudging), whereby all and sundry flock to the streets armed with sacks of ‘ammunition’ such as colourfully dyed flour, soot and confetti.
Kathara Deftera (Clean Monday) is the first day of Great Lent in the Greek Orthodox…
Today marks the end of “Tyrini” the week where Greeks worldwide enjoyed loads of cheese…
Clean Monday (Greek: Καθαρά Δευτέρα), also known as Pure Monday, Ash Monday, Monday of Lent…
Today the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates Apokries, Meatfare Sunday, which is the last day of…
Today the Greek Orthodox Church remembers the miracle of Saint Theodore the Tyro and Kolyva (boiled wheat).
The holy, glorious Martyr Haralambos lived at the time of Emperor Septimus Severus (194-211) in…
Antiochian Greek rescue teams have been deployed to the frontline in Aleppo after the earthquake…
On February 5, the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates the Feast Day of Agia Agathi (Αγία Αγάθη), who is the Patron Saint of breast cancer patients and is known for curing many people of the disease.
January 30 is the Feast Day of the Synaxis of the Three Hierarchs, St Basil…
Stefanos Tsitsipas will face Serbian Novak Djokovic in what will be an all Christian Orthodox…