Tag: Great Church

Ecumenical Patriarch urges faithful to be vigilant and renew their lives in catechetical homily on the beginning of Great Lent

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- March 2, 2017

Aurelian Iftimiu - Basilica News Agency - March 2017 CATECHETICAL ENCYCLICAL ON THE OPENING OF GREAT LENT + B A R T H O L O ... Read More

Patriarchal Proclamation on the 25th Anniversary of His All-Holiness’ Election to the Ecumenical Throne

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- October 31, 2016

GOARCH - 31/10/16 MESSAGE OF HIS ALL-HOLINESS ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW To the Plenitude of the Ecumenical Patriarchate Worldwide On the 25th Anniversary of His Election ... Read More

The Shining Glory of the Little Local Parish

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- December 7, 2015

Fr. Lawrence Farley - December 2015- OCA Orthodoxy is known for its pomp—or rather, as our apologists and partisans like to say, for “its glorious worship.”  ... Read More

The great church

OCP- December 12, 2013

Dean Kalimniou- 12/12/13 "Solomon, I have surpassed you." Emperor Justinian One of my chief sources of pride derives from the fact that my family's origins ... Read More

Haghia Sophia: The First Great Martyr of Christian Art and Architecture, by Nikolaos Manginas

OCP- September 5, 2013

Istanbul, Turkey 9/2/2013 It all started with the Church of Haghia Sophia in Nicaea. Then Haghia Sophia in Trabzon. Both of these glorious Byzantine churches ... Read More