Tag: Greece

His Holiness Aram I Welcomed in Athens

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- September 29, 2014

September 2014 Athens: Upon his arrival at the Athens Airport, Catholicos Aram I was met by the representative of the Head of the Church of ... Read More

Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece Asks Russia to Ease Sanctions Against Greece

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 27, 2014

27/8/14 The Synod has sent a letter to His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. PRAVMIR. The Synod of the Orthodox Church of ... Read More

Ecumenical Patriarch Visits Athens and Cappadocia

OCP- June 27, 2014

June 2014 His All-Holiness in Athens On Tuesday, June 17, 2014, His All-Holiness traveled to Greece, where he attended and offered the keynote address at ... Read More

Greeks Recognized as the Most Religious People in the European Union

OCP- June 23, 2014

75% of Greeks call themselves religious. PRAVMIR. June 20, 2014. A pan-European survey conducted by the Department of Social Research in nineteen European Union countries ... Read More

OCP Society honors Coptic Bishop Anba Paulose of Greece with the Icon of St Gregory of Parumala

OCP- May 14, 2014

Kisha D Dorado – OCP Delegate of Serbia, Balkan and East European Region OCP News Service - 14/5/14 Thessaloniki: The Coptic Orthodox Bishop Anba Paulose ... Read More

Coptic Bishop Anba Paulose of Greece Congratulate OCP Secretary

OCP- May 14, 2014

Kisha D Dorado – OCP Delegate of Serbia, Balkan and East European Region OCP News Service - 14/5/14 Thessaloniki: The Coptic Orthodox Bishop Anba Paulose ... Read More

Samaras Announces Aid Programme at Church Event

OCP- May 14, 2014

Sotiria Nikolouli - May 2014 Speaking at the event entitled “Solidarity, the social work of the Church and the social dimension of EU policies,” the ... Read More

COMPARATIVE LAW – A Conference on Turkey and Modern Greece

OCP- May 14, 2014

May 2014 By His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (Boġaziçi University, May 9-10, 2014) Eminent Rector of this esteemed university, Prof. Gülay Barbarosoğlu, Distinguished symposium organizers ... Read More

A Letter to Pope Francis Concerning His Past, the Abysmal State of Papism, and a Plea to Return to Holy Orthodoxy

OCP- April 17, 2014

Pope Francis - The Old Orthodox Bishop of Rome 17/4/14 Read: A Letter to Pope Francis Concerning His Past, the Abysmal State of Papism, and ... Read More

Archbishop of Athens: “Detention of Thousands of People in Israeli Prisons is a Disgrace”

OCP- April 7, 2014

ATHENS, April 5, 2014 – (WAFA) – Primate of the Orthodox Church of Greece and  Archbishop of Athens Ieronymos II declared Saturday his support for ... Read More

DOXOLOGY FOR THE 193RD ANNIVERSARY OF 25 MARCH 1821

OCP- April 4, 2014

March- April 2014 - Jerusalem Patriarchate  In the morning of Tuesday, 12th/25th of March 2014, Doxology was held at the Katholikon of the All-holy Church of ... Read More

Five Assyrians Fleeing Syria Drown Off the Coast of Greece

OCP- March 24, 2014

By Nuri Kino - 24/3/14 (AINA) -- On Thursday, March 21 a newsflash arrived: Seven migrants, including two children, lost their lives on Tuesday when ... Read More

Announcement Concerning the Union of the Synod in Resistance with the Church of the GOC

OCP- March 20, 2014

Traditional Orthodox Churches - 20/3/14 Union between Orthodox Church of Greece (Holy Synod in Resistance) with the Genuine Orthodox Church of Greece (GOC) Read more ... Read More

Dačić visits Serbian monastery in Greece

OCP- March 2, 2014

Tanjug February - March 2014 MT. ATHOS --  Ivica Dačić visited the Hilandar monastery at Mt. Athos in Greece and said the spiritual edifice was ... Read More

Holy Gifts of Magi Travel from Greece to Moscow

OCP- January 22, 2014

Iro-Anna Mamakouka - January2014 Within a week, about half a million pilgrims kneeled in front of the Holy Gifts of the Magi which were transferred ... Read More

IOCC Delivers Winter Relief To Greece’s Most Vulnerable

OCP- January 14, 2014

January 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — As snow and nighttime temperatures fall in portions of Greece, the country's most vulnerable – the elderly, people with ... Read More

Standing Holy Synod to Control Church Property

OCP- January 8, 2014

January 2014 With an Amendment brought to Parliament by ministers Yannis Stournaras, Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Michalis Chryssochoidis, all matters relating to the management ... Read More

Hamish McRae: Getting away from it all is fine, but no man is an island

OCP- December 23, 2013

Hamish McRae - 23/12/13 To visit the monasteries on Mount Athos is to step back a thousand years, the closest one can get now to the ... Read More

Religious freedom for all

OCP- December 7, 2013

MUSTAFA AKYOL akyol@mustafaakyol.org - 7/12/13 I  have spent the past three days in the German capital, to attend an international conference organized by the Archons, a religious order ... Read More

Hamish McRae: Getting away from it all is fine, but no man is an island

OCP- November 24, 2013

HAMISH MCRAE - 24/11/13 To visit the monasteries on Mount Athos is to step back a thousand years, the closest one can get now to the ... Read More

Greece angered over Turkish Deputy PM’s Hagia Sophia remarks

OCP- November 22, 2013

November 2013 The Greek Foreign Ministry has reacted angrily over a possible conversion of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia Museum into a mosque following statements from Turkish ... Read More