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Priest-martyr Philoumenos († 29 November, 1979)
29 November 2015
Metropolitan Isikhios of Capitoliada, Patriarchate of Jerusalem, speaks for life and death of Priest-martyr Philoumenos († 29 November, 1979)...
Freedom’s one thing, autonomy’s another: God is the core of our existence
Konstantinos T. Tsourapas
27 November 2015
The role of the human race as a link between creation and God is clear. People are the means through which God reveals His mystery to the world. The redefinition of our attitude towards the environmen...
Meeting of the Metropolis Council of Toronto
25 November 2015
The Metropolis Council meeting was held at our Holy Metropolis on November 23rd, the first gathering with its new composition, under the Presidency of Metropolitan Sotirios. The meeting began with the...
Monk Anatolios Kavsokalyvitis (1862-1938)
22 November 2015
Monk Anatolios Kavsokalyvitis (1862-1938)
Monk Anatolios Kavsokalyvitis was born in 1862, in Pangrati, Kalavryta. He came to the Holy Mountain, the Bower of Our Lady, in 1890. In 1892, he was tonsur...
Papa-Stratis from Lesvos: the Priest of the Refugees
21 November 2015
by Penelope Sarrou and Iraklis Filios
‘And I want to tell you that we came into this world where we live in order to be useful’ (Papa-Stratis)
A short while ago, the well-known figure Papa-Stratis d...
Christ also stopped at Eidomeni
Petros Panayiotopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
20 November 2015
‘Christ stopped at Empoli’ was the name of a classic work of literature. Today, perhaps, He’s stopping in Syria, in Kos, in Lesvos, at the border between Croatia and Hungary. We went to one such stop,...
Advice for PM Trudeau in advance of visit to Turkey: An Open Letter
19 November 2015
Evagelos Sotiropoulos holds a B.A. and M.A. in political science from the University of Toronto
Dear Prime Minister:
Congratulations on your historic election win. The peaceful transition of power ...
The unseen Athonites and the Battle for Macedonia
19 November 2015
The Society for Macedonian Studies (4 Ethinikis Aminis Str., Thessaloniki) announce the lecture of Dr. Basil N. Pappas (Monday, 23th of November 2015, 17:00):
The unseen Athonites and the Battle fo...
An Interview with Iconographer Julia Bridget Hayes
18 November 2015
Julia Bridget Hayes is a talented iconographer working in Greece. Her work is a truly wonderful example of creativity within tradition. We asked to interview her and to share these images of her work ...