Gheorghe Anghel

Father Epiphanios of Mylopotamos: From Mount Athos to the Culinary Olympics

Father Epiphanios of the Great Lavra’s Mylopotamos Cell, who is surnamed the Athonite Chef, participated this month, together with a team of Greek chefs, in the IKA/Culinary Olympics in Stuttgart, Germany. The team won the bronze medal in the category “Community Catering” with seven dishes inspired by the Macedonian culinary tradition, including zucchini and herb…

Feb 20, 2020Gheorghe Anghel

Funeral held of pioneering Irish Romanian Orthodox priest Fr Godfrey O’Donnell

The funeral Mass of Fr Godfrey O’Donnell (80) the only Irishman to be ordained a priest of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Ireland, took place on Monday at St Columba’s Church, Blakestown Way, in West Dublin. A total of 28 Romanian Orthodox priests from Europe and Ireland took part in the Mass, The Iris Time reports. From Derry, Fr…

Feb 18, 2020Gheorghe Anghel

Archbishop Anastasios of Albania honored with 2020 Klaus Hemmerle Award

The Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, was honored on Friday in Aachen, Germany with the international award Klaus Hemmerle for 2020, for his contribution to the rapproachment and peaceful coexistence of communities with different cultural and religious backgrounds. The awards ceremony was held at the emblematic Aachen Cathedral. More than…

Feb 17, 2020Gheorghe Anghel

Romfilatelia: Postage stamp issue dedicated to Saint Nectarios of Aegina

Romfilatelia introduced into circulation on Friday, February 14, a new postage stamp issue entitled 100 years since the repose of Saint Nectarios of Aegina. Saint Nectarios was born in 1846, in the Thracian Silivria (locality near Constantinople), from a poor but god-fearing parents, Dimos and Maria Kefalas receiving the name of Anastasios at baptism. At the…

Feb 15, 2020Gheorghe Anghel

Greek Energy Min Discusses Environmental Issues with Mt. Athos Representatives

The installation of photovoltaic modules and the support of the Greek state to Mount Athos were discussed at the meeting of Kostis Hatzidakis, Minister of Environment and Energy, with the leadership of the Holy Community. In the meeting, which was also attended by the Civil Governor of Mount Athos, Athanasios Martinos, the topics of biological…

Feb 15, 2020Gheorghe Anghel

The Feast of St. Theodore Stratelates in the Patriarchate of Alexandria

On Saturday, February 8, 2020, feast of Saint Theodore Stratilates the Great Martyr, Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa officiated at the Divine Liturgy which was held at the Holy Patriarchal Chapel of Saints Theodores. During the Liturgy, the African students of the Patriarchal School of “Saint Athanasius,” based in the Holy Patriarchal…

Feb 15, 2020Gheorghe Anghel

Ecumenical Patriarchate: Election of Auxiliary Bishops for the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada joyously presents and transmits the official announcement of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate regarding the election of assistant (auxiliary) bishops. ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE PRESS RELEASE Under the presidency of His All-Holiness, the Ecumenical Patriarch, the Holy and Sacred Synod convened for its regular session, today, Thursday,…

Feb 14, 2020Gheorghe Anghel

Patriarch of Alexandria briefed in Athens over film production ‘Man of God’

The Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, was personally briefed on Wednesday, February 5, in Athens about the international film production “Man of God”, by the project’s director-screenwriter, Yelena Popovic. The film, which is currently being shot in Greece with an international case, deals with the life of 20th century…

Feb 12, 2020Gheorghe Anghel

OCA consecrates new bishop as vicar for Romanian Episcopate

His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of Washington and All America and other hierarchs of the Orthodox Church in America consecrated Hieromonk Andrei (Hoarște) as Bishop of Cleveland, auxiliary to His Eminence Archbishop Nathaniel of the Romanian Episcopate. The services were celebrated at St. George Cathedral in Southfield, Michigan on Friday, January 31 and Saturday, February 1,…

Feb 4, 2020Gheorghe Anghel

World Cancer Day: A leading international awareness day

At the start of the millennium, 4 February was declared World Cancer Day. It began with six cancer experts who convened in Paris in 1999. With the year 2000 imminent, the group was determined that the global challenge of cancer would not be forgotten in the new century. Together, the six leaders drafted a Charter…

Feb 4, 2020Gheorghe Anghel

Archdiocese of Arad donating $8,000 to pediatric dept. of local hospital

The pediatric department of the Arad County Hospital in western Romania will soon be the recipient of a generous donation from the Romanian Orthodox Church. The Archdiocese of Arad held a charity concert at the Hall of the Cultural Palace in Arad on January 22, which raised just over $8,000 (34,774 lei) for the hospital,…

Jan 30, 2020Gheorghe Anghel