Greece - Orthodox Christian Laity

Browsing: Greece

A man walks through the empty Monastiraki square, in central Athens on April 9, 2020, as the country remains under lockdown to stop the spread of Covid-19 disease caused by the novel coronavirus. (Photo by Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP) (Photo by ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Greece Has an Elderly Population and a Fragile Economy. How Has It Escaped the Worst of the Coronavirus So Far?

By Webmaster on April 22, 2020 Orthodox News, Orthodox News Top Stories

Source: TIME BY BILLY PERRIGO AND JOSEPH HINCKS This weekend’s Orthodox Easter celebrations in Greece were a low key affair for Michalis Stratakis and his wife Nancy. They still ate lamb, but the meat was oven-cooked instead of carved off a whole animal that had been spit-roasted for hours over charcoals. They painted eggs red according to Greek tradition and played games with family members in Athens, but over cell phone screens from their home on the Greek island of Crete on Sunday, rather than at the usual raucous feast of about 20 friends and relatives. “It was heartbreaking, to tell you the truth, because we didn’t…

The Prayers Prayed by the Athonite Monks in Their Vigil Against the Coronavirus

By Webmaster on March 28, 2020 Orthodox News, Orthodox News Top Stories

Source: MYSTAGOGY On Friday 27 March into Saturday 28 March the monks of Mount Athos, in every monastery, skete and cell, held an all-night vigil against the pandemic of the coronavirus. The vigil was dedicated to the Panagia, who is the protectress of the Holy Mountain, as well as the Holy Hieromartyr Haralambos, who is noted especially for his miracles in vanquishing plagues and epidemics, including an epidemic that once infected the monks of the Holy Mountain and which he was responsible for dispelling. In all the monasteries, during Matins, a special canon to the Holy Trinity for deliverance from…

Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, a prominent Orthodox theologian, who is among the staunchest opponents of the recognition of the autocephaly of Epiphany in the Ukraine

Greek NGO: Church of Greece Recognized Ukrainian Autocephaly in Violation of Law

By Webmaster on January 23, 2020 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories

Source: Helleniscope By Nadia Bazuk The Greek NGO Pan-Hellenic Orthodox Union is to appeal to the country’s Council of State claiming that the decision of the Church of Greece to recognize the Ukrainian autocephaly was taken in violation of Greek law, the Orthodoxos Typos reports. On October 12, 2019, the Council of Bishops of the Church of Greece held an extraordinary meeting on recognizing the autocephaly granted to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) by the Ecumenical Patriarchate. At the meeting, it was decided to give Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece a mandate to proceed with the recognition of the…

Primates of the Cyprus, Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem Orthodox Churches

Mass media: “Greek” Primates regret giving Phanar such power

By Webmaster on November 30, 2019 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Source: Union of Orthodox Journalists Yekaterina Filatova “We elevated Patriarch Bartholomew to the third heaven ourselves giving him primacy, so all responsibility lies with us, Primates,” admitted one of the Greek hierarchs. The newspaper “Orthodox Press” published fragments of a conversation with the “Greek Primate” without revealing his identity, who stated that Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople threatens church leaders with the removal of autocephaly. Excerpts from the conversation with the hierarchs are cited by oukraniko.blogspot.com. As follows from the publication, “the first hierarch admits that the Primates are responsible, because they made a mistake by going to the Cretan Council and raising him (Patriarch…

ARCHBISHOP OF GREECE OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZES UKRAINIAN SCHISMATICS

By Webmaster on October 29, 2019 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories

Source: Orthodox Christianity ATHENS — While the stance of the Archbishop Ieronymos, the primate of the Greek Orthodox Church, towards the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” remained unclear after the Bishops’ Council of the Greek Church on October 12, it has now been clarified. As Romfea and Orthodox Times both report, Abp. Ieronymos sent an “irenic letter” to “Metropolitan” Epiphany Dumenko, the primate of the schismatic OCU on October 21. According to established tradition, every new primate of a Local Church sends “irenic letters” to the primates of the other Local Churches of the Orthodox Church, officially announcing his elevation. Response letters from the other primates…

Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. Photo: vimaorthodoxias.gr

ARCHBISHOP OF GREECE, PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW COMMEMORATE SCHISMATIC PRIMATE EPIPHANY (+ VIDEO)

By Webmaster on October 19, 2019 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories

Source: Orthodox Christianity CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO Thessaloniki — Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople concelebrated the Divine Liturgy in Thessaloniki today together with a number of hierarchs from their respective Local Churches. The Liturgy was celebrated in the 5th-century Byzantine Church of the Acheiropoietos, reports Romfea. Most significantly, “Metropolitan” Epiphany Dumenko, the primate of the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” created by Pat. Bartholomew and ex-President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine, was commemorated in the service as a primate of a Local Church. This marks the first time Epiphany was commemorated and entered into…

Photo: risu.org.ua

GREEK CHURCH RECOGNIZES UKRAINIAN SCHISMATICS…OR DID THEY? PERSPECTIVES FOR THE FUTURE

By Webmaster on October 18, 2019 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Source: Orthodox Christianity On Saturday, October 12, 2019, the Orthodox world was shocked by perhaps the most predictable catastrophe—news that the Greek Orthodox Church has recognized the schismatic OCU. That was until conflicting reports came out, and now it’s possible there is an internal conflict within the Greek Church over this matter. As a general disclaimer, when discussing the situation surrounding the Greek Church’s recognition (or lack thereof), of the OCU, we are currently entering the realm of informed speculation. Unless one was present during the council meetings in Athens, we don’t truly know what happened, especially not until more news comes…

Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church

Statement of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church

By Webmaster on October 17, 2019 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories

Source: The Russian Orthodox Church On 17th October 2019, during a session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, a statement was adopted concerning the situation that arose in the Greek Orthodox Church after it convened on 12th October 2019 the extraordinary Council of Hierarchs on the Ukrainian church issue (Minutes No. 125). Members of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church have acquainted themselves with the published in the mass media documents of the extraordinary Council of Hierarchs of the Greek Orthodox Church held on 12th October 2019, in particular, with the communiqué of the Council and the report…

Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus. Photo: Romfea

METROPOLITAN OF PIRAEUS ON UKRAINIANS’ ECUMENISM WITH CATHOLICS: “THESE PEOPLE LACK THE FEAR OF GOD”

By Webmaster on October 15, 2019 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories, Uncategorized

Source: Orthodox Christianity Piraeus, Greece – The results and consequences of the meeting of the hierarchs of the Greek Church on Saturday remain unclear. As OrthoChristian reported yesterday, the press team created by the Bishops’ Council announced that the Greek Church recognized the so-called “Ukrainian Orthodox Church” (OCU), thought this interpretation of the councils’ proceedings was later called into question. Both Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus and Metropolitan Seraphim of Kythira revealed that, in fact, the hierarchs did not vote on the matter of recognizing the OCU, and thus it cannot be said that recognition happened. Met. Seraphim of Piraeus issued another statement today,…

Met. Seraphim of Kythira (left), Met. Seraphim of Piraeus (right). Photos: agionoros.ru

METROPOLITANS SERAPHIM OF PIRAEUS AND KYTHIRA SAY NO VOTE HAPPENED, NO RECOGNITION OF OCU

By Webmaster on October 14, 2019 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories, Orthodox News, Orthodox News Top Stories

Source: Orthodox Christianity ATHENS – While media reports have stated that the Bishops’ Council of the Greek Church resolved to recognize the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” on Saturday, drawing on Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos’ statements to the press, two prominent hierarchs of the Greek Church say this is not true. Both Metropolitans Seraphim of Piraeus and Seraphim of Kythira, both of whom have addressed the Ukrainian issue several times before, have issued statements in the wake of Saturday’s session, stating that the issue of recognizing the OCU was not put to a vote and that the hierarchs simply reaffirmed the Holy Synod’s earlier decision.…

GREEK HIERARCHS HAVE REPORTEDLY POSTPONED DISCUSSION OF UKRAINIAN ISSUE AGAIN

By Webmaster on October 3, 2019 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Source: Orthodox Christianity [Athens] As they have already done several times, the hierarchs of the Greek Church have again postponed discussion of the Ukrainian ecclesiastical issue, according to sources within the Greek Orthodox Church. Yesterday, the Telegram channel of the Moscow Patriarchal press service, “Church Today,” reported, citing its own sources within the Greek Church, that the hierarchs would not discuss Ukraine at the upcoming session of the Bishops’ Council, which will open on October 8. This report comes after the Permanent Holy Synod of the Greek Church met in Athens on October 1, and, according to Greek sources, was “seeking…

An Open Letter from Greek Clergy and Laity on the Ukrainian Issue

By Webmaster on September 13, 2019 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories

Source: Orthodox Synaxis The Greek original with the list of signatories can be found here. Your Beatitude, Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, Most Reverend Metropolitans of the Church of Greece, Your Beatitude, Your Eminences, As members of the Orthodox Church and, in spirit, children of Your episcopal-fatherly responsibility, we feel the need to address You as our spiritual and ecclesiastical Fathers and to express our unease and distress over the uncanonical granting of Ukrainian autocephaly. We share Your anguish and serious ecclesiological and canonical hesitations and reservations as they have been stated expressly or even silently according to the…

Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … 7 Next

Sign “A Declaration for Orthodox Christian Unity in America”…Support this website – every donation helps! Thank you!…

Browsing: Greece