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22. December 2020 - 10:51 On Friday, December 5/18, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of our Holy Father Savvas the Sanctified at his Holy Monastery in the Judea desert, by the bank of brook Cedron, which leads to the Dead Sea. This old and respectable Monastery was founded by Saint Savvas himself, in A.D. 500. Saint Savvas came to the Holy Land from his hometown Moutalaski of Cappadocia at the age of 18, became a novice under the obedience of Saint Euthymius the Great and his co-ascetic Saint Theoktistos, and later on founded the Lavra that bears his name. He founded the Mona...

22. December 2020 - 11:36 On Saturday, December 6/19, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of our Father among the Saints Nikolaos Archbishop of Myra in Lycia. On this feast the Church commemorates that Saint Nikolaos was the Archbishop of Lycia, “as a rule of faith, an icon of meekness” who “achieved the heights of humility, riches by poverty”, who helped the poor, the needy, the prisoners, the sea travellers, the orphans, and supported the doctrine of the One Essence of the Son with the Father in the 1 st Ecumenical Synod of Nice in A.D. 325. This feast was cele...

Father Epifanios, the beloved chef of Mount Athos, passes away Search for: The beloved chef of Mount Athos, Father Epifanios Mylopotaminos, has passed away at the age of 64, after a long battle with cancer. Father Epifanios was the popular monk of Mount Athos, who made known, through his books in Greece and the world, the monastic cooking and the nutrition secrets of the Athonite State – the coast where Mount Athos is located. His cooking videos and recipes, made him popular, especially among the elderly community of Greece, while his simple and humble way of life, established him as one of...