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On Saturday evening, the Order of Saint Andrew, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, honored His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, with the Athenagoras Human Rights Award. The annual award ceremony, which recognizes “a person or organization which has consistently exemplified by action, purpose, and dedication, concern for the basic rights and religious freedom of all people,” also coincided with the eighteenth anniversary of His Beatitude’s enthronement to the See of St. Mark. On Saturday evening, the Order of Saint Andrew, Archons of the Ecumen...

Students at the Saint Nicholas Shrine Church and School welcomed a special guest on Friday, October 7. From Alexandria, Egypt to Queens, New York, the Apostolic Visit of His Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros II to the United States — the first ever by a Patriarch of Alexandria— included a trip to the beloved Greek day school in Flushing. Students at the Saint Nicholas Shrine Church and School welcomed a special guest on Friday, October 7. From Alexandria, Egypt to Queens, New York, the Apostolic Visit of His Beatitude Patriarch...

NEW YORK — Thursday, October 6, marked the first full day of the Apostolic visit of His Beatitude Theodoros II, Patriarch and Pope of Alexandria and all Africa, to the United States. In the morning, His Beatitude met with His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Catholic Archbishop of New York, and His Eminence Archbishop Borys Gudziak, of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia. NEW YORK — Thursday, October 6, marked the first full day of the Apostolic visit of His Beatitude Theodoros II, Patriarch and Pope of Alexandria and all Africa, to the United States. In the...

Q: You took part in demonstrations over the murder of George Floyd, you supported the use of plastic spoons for Holy Communion, and you baptized the children of a gay couple. What kind of hierarch are you? What shaped you? Q: You took part in demonstrations over the murder of George Floyd, you supported the use of plastic spoons for Holy Communion, and you baptized the children of a gay couple. What kind of hierarch...

PHANAR — After nearly a year of preparations, "Kosinitza Manuscript 220" will return to the Patriarchal and Stavropegial Monastery of Theotokos Eikosiphoinissa in Drama, Greece. The manuscript, which was most recently purchased from Christie’s in 2011 and entered the collection of Washington D.C.’s Museum of the Bible in 2014, was among hundreds of priceless objects looted from the Monastery by Bulgarian troops in 1917. Following the discovery of its origins by curator Brian Hyland, the Museum of the Bible began working in collaboration with the His All-Holiness Ecumen...