Two years have passed since Patriarch Bartholomew awarded autocephaly to the schismatic Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine, creating a series of unprecedented situations in Orthodoxy. Today, he claims he did not…

Two years have passed since Patriarch Bartholomew awarded autocephaly to the schismatic Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine, creating a series of unprecedented situations in Orthodoxy. Today, he claims he did not…
A Greek Orthodox bishop has urged churchgoers to not take the COVID-19 vaccine because, citing sources from Italy, it is “made from aborted fetuses.” On Sunday, December 27, after the vespers, the…
His Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios, representing Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, received the coronavirus vaccine on Sunday. The Metropolitan of Nafpaktos is the first hierarch to be vaccinated…
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has delivered his Christmas message, encouraging people to keep the faith amid tough times, which you can read here- Beloved Brethren in the Lord, In this…
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, a temple to the Greek god of the wild and music was discovered. The Jerusalem Post reported…
Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece was discharged from Athens’ Evangelismos Hospital, where he has been undergoing treatment for Covid-19. The 82-year-old archbishop was admitted to hospital on November 19 for…
The health condition of Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, was described as “satisfactory” in a medical update issued by Athens’ Evangelismos Hospital on Wednesday. Last week, the 82-year-old archbishop was admitted to…
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 last Wednesday, has died. Serbian Patriarch Irinej breathed his last in a Belgrade hospital at the age…
Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, who was admitted to Evangelismos Hospital for precautionary reasons, has tested positive for COVID-19. Archbishop Ieronymos was diagnosed with COVID-19 and was admitted today to…
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, a particularly high number of visitors, and not only Greeks, was recorded by the monastery of Panagia Soumela in Pontos for 2020, which is closing again for new…
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and visited the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολη, Turkish: İstanbul) today. The Secretary of State arrived in Constantinople…
Father Metropolitan Ioannis of Langadas took his last breathe this morning and passed away. Regarding the causes of his death, the Metropolitan had underlying diseases and was positive for COVID-19, Ethnos reported.…
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.
Nikolaos Kakavelakis, the priest that was shot twice in Lyon and is fighting for his life in hospital, had been attacked by men of North African origin a few days ago. This…
Greek director Fanis Topsachalidis has been nominated for Best Director (Short Film) for his film ‘2(ii)’ about how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting Greek families in drastic ways. 2(ii) is now showing as part of the Byzanfest Orthodox Film Festival.
If we accept that God is faith and science is knowledge, is there a point where these two converge? National Hellenic Research Foundation’s Greek documentary ‘Science and Orthodoxy Around the World’ is now showing and has been nominated for Best Film, Best Director and Best Editing at the Byzanfest Film Festival 2020.
Letting in the Light is a documentary that follows Sister Thekla, an iconographer who travelled to Wellington from the Congo in Africa, to paint the Pantocrator on the dome of Wellington’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral, the Evangelismos church. Adding the Pantocrator iconography to the dome is a significant milestone in the history of this beautiful church. The film shares the story of how this remarkable work was created and celebrates the Greek Orthodox faith in New Zealand.