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Galliciano – Calabria Grecanico

Galliciano is located in the heart of the 9 Greek speaking villages of Calabria in the deep South, the extreme tip of the Italian boot, a place known as Aspromonte.The villages are…

Cargese – The Greek Village of Corsica

From Light of the East, May-June 2010, Newsletter of SSJC Youngstown Ohio Chapter, from a contact in Greece In 1673, 800 residents of the town of Itilos of the Mani district of…

“Christ is the Head of the Church, not the Pope”

Metropolitan John of Pergamon, Co-Chairman of the Joint Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox and the Catholics, at the 11th Plenary Session at Paphos, Cyprus. Left, Gennadios of Sassima. Right,…

Metropolitan John Zizioulas writes to the Metropolitans of Greece

In July we carried a report on the Metropolitans of the Orthodox Church of Greece, who had denounced the Ecumenical Patriarchate and its ‘heresy of ecumenism’, specifically the work of the dialogue…

St Augustine in Eastern and Western Tradition

The Vatican Information Service reports, 4th September 2009: Made public yesterday afternoon was a Message from Benedict XVI to Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, and…

Heavenly Birth of Archimandrite Symeon of Tolleshunt Knights

Archimandrite Symeon on his Golden Jubilee in Monastic Life Archimandrite Symeon died in the very early hours of Friday 21 August at the monastery of St John the Baptist where he lived…

The Glory Suffered

To mark in August the Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, here is a video presentation of Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia on “The Glory Suffered”, the first of four lecture delivered…

Greek clergy denounce ‘heresy of ecumenism’

A group of Orthodox clergy in Greece, led by three senior archbishops, have published a manifesto pledging to resist all ecumenical ties with Roman Catholics and Protestants. “The only way our communion…

Moscow and Constantinople Orthodox Patriarchs meet

Asia News reports, 7 July 2009: For his first foreign trip since his election Kyrill, Patriarch of Moscow, picked Constantinople. His visit was dominated by a desire among Orthodox to consolidate the…