Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 29/08/2026Today marks the commemoration of the martyrdom of Forerunner and Baptist Saint John, whose blood spilled sealed the truth of his words. “Through his intercessions, may we always be open to the same Message that Saint John heard with faith,” His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America said. 031
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 03/08/2026Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (HCHC) announced on August 2 that it has fully executed a Purchase and Sale Agreement for the sale of approximately 25.98 acres of undevelopable land on its property. 🔗 in bio 010
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 29/07/2026During a joint session of the 48th Biennial Clergy-Laity Congress and the 2026 National Young Adult League (YAL) brought together clergy, lay leaders, and young adults for a collaborative discussion on strengthening parish young adult ministry. Read more at our site, found at the link in our bio. 000
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 27/07/2026On Friday, July 17, 2026, ahead of the final match of the World Cup, several Girl Delegates and Girl Delegate alumni of the GOA’s UN Girl Delegate Program participated in a day-long showcase event at the UN. Read more at the link in our bio. 000
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 22/07/2026Addressing the new Bishop of Andida, a former Diocese of the Metropolis of Pergis in Asia Minor, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew emphasized that “authentic theology and closed-mindedness are contradictory.” 000
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 22/07/2026Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology is pleased to announce the launch of The Catechist: The Art of Listening and Teaching, a new Certificate Program in Orthodox Catechism beginning in the 2026–2027 academic year. Read more below. 141
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 22/07/2026“Canonical discipline remains a necessary duty of the Church. Yet, when efforts by the Church to respond to the centuries-old trauma of the African Diaspora in the West is viewed through such a narrow and poorly informed lens, the heart of the Gospel is easily overlooked,” Fr. Samuel Davis writes. 120
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 13/03/2026His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America spent a full day at the New York State Capitol on Tuesday, March 11, delivering invocations before both chambers of the Legislature. 010
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 06/01/2026On January 5, 2026, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America was welcomed by Tarpon Springs mayor John Koulianos for the annual blessing of a fleet of sponge and fishing boats, as well as to commemorate tomorrow’s 120th consecutive celebration of the Great Feast of Epiphany. 000
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 06/12/2025Archbishop Elpidophoros of America paid a visit to the Cathedral of Saint Andrew in Patras, the seat of the Metropolis of Patras and the largest church in Greece, where he was formally received by His Eminence Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Patras. 000
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 29/11/2025This afternoon, in the venerable Patriarchal Church of St. George at the Phanar, Great Vespers brought together His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and His Holiness Pope Leo XIV in a profound manifestation of the “dialogue of love” 072
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 06/11/2025Watch highlights from His Eminence’s remarks at the Observer’s conference: “Do the Divine and Digital Intersect?” 030
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 22/08/2025Fr. Spiro was a featured speaker at the U.S. Attorney General’s Human Trafficking Summit, a gathering of national leaders dedicated to eradicating human trafficking across the country. Read about the summit here: www.goarch.org/-/fr.-peter-... 📸 FREEDOM Ministry 011
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 20/08/2025This past week, His Eminence visited Chios, a Greek island facing intense wildfires. There he spoke to residents, officials, and the firefighters. Read about the visit here: www.goarch.org/-/archbishop... 📸 OO/Dimitrios Panagos 021
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 06/08/2025Often, OVC volunteer work reflects the reality of Christian service. One often marked by practicality and the plain logistics of giving care to those who need it most. Read about two OVC volunteers’ experiences here: goarch.org/-/ovc-parks-fr… 📸 courtesy Harry Parks/Anastasia Friesen 020
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 06/08/2025The Archdiocese’s Girl Delegate Program gives girls the opportunity to gain firsthand experience in international relations, global policy discussions, and public leadership. Read here: goarch.org/-/chudley-girl… 📸 Demetra Chudley/Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical, and Interfaith 000
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 06/08/2025On August 24, parishes across the Archdiocese will celebrate College Student Sunday, a day to offer prayers for our college students and work to ensure that they each have a spiritual home away from home. Read about it: goarch.org/-/css-25 📸 courtesy of OCF 031
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 31/07/2025The OCPM urges Orthodox Christians not to see incarceration as a distant, abstract policy concern, but as a pastoral and spiritual reality already present in our parishes. Read the full article here: www.goarch.org/-/-you-are-n... 📸courtesy of the OCPM 052
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 31/07/2025From Camp Saint Paul to the streets of Hamilton Heights, New York, this week’s generosity and stewardship extended far beyond campgrounds. Read about the week at the camp here: www.goarch.org/-/camp-saint... 📸 courtesy of Fr. Elias Villis 021
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 30/07/2025We’ve highlighted the events that will be open to the public during Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s U.S. visit in September. Refer to them here: www.goarch.org/-/ep-public-... 📸 by OO/Brittainy Newman 031
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 29/07/2025Now that the IOCC’s repairs are completed, 212 students and staff in Uganda are back to school. Read the full article, including an update on the IOCC’s other projects in the region here: goarch.org/-/after-iocc-r… 📸 courtesy of International Orthodox Christian Charities 041
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 25/07/2025On July 8, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew met over 80 children from Ukraine. His All-Holiness addressed them with compassionate words. Read the @OrderStAndrew’s statement about the moment here: goarch.org/-/ecumenical-p… 📸 courtesy of Archons 073
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 25/07/2025“The day and memory are bitter.” His Eminence @elpidophoros.goarch.org issued an encyclical on the Day of Remembrance of the Hagia Sophia. Read the full message here: www.goarch.org/-/hagia-soph... 📸 by OO/Brittainy Newman 042
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 24/07/2025Archbishop Elpidophoros met with a delegation from the Greek Orthodox Community of Antioch who expressed profound gratitude for the GOA’s support of earthquake survivors in Turkey. Read about the meeting here: goarch.org/-/antiochian-d… 052
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 22/07/2025The pilgrims spent the day in the ancient city of Nicaea. Follow them as they walk in the footsteps of the First Ecumenical Council’s attendees, including Emperor Constantine the Great: www.goarch.org/-/pilgrims-r... 📸 OO/Brittainy Newman 041
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 21/07/2025Today’s emotional pinnacle for the New Rome pilgrims was a visit to the Hagia Sophia—once the Great Church of Christendom, now transformed into a mosque. Read about the history and the pilgrims’ experience here: goarch.org/-/hagia-sophia… 📸 OO/Brittainy Newman 071
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 21/07/2025Yesterday, Archbishop Elpidophoros of America presided over from the Patriarchal throne, which His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew noted as a particular joy. Read about the pilgrims’ first day in Istanbul here: www.goarch.org/-/he-patriar... 📸: OO/Brittainy Newman 021
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 20/07/2025Before departing the city, the pilgrims in Rome made one last stop at the only Greek Orthodox Church in Rome. Read about the moment here: goarch.org/-/pilgrims-vis… 📸 by OO/Brittainy Newman 021
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 19/07/2025The Leadership 100 Fund, whose mission is to advance Orthodoxy and Hellenism in the U.S., has appointed Penny Panayiota Deligiannis as their new executive director, effective February 2026. Read the full release here: goarch.org/-/leadership-1… 📸 courtesy of Deligiannis 011
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 19/07/2025The “From Rome to New Rome” pilgrimage began their last full day in the Eternal City at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. Read about the end of the pilgrimage to here: goarch.org/-/faithful-par… 📸 by OO/Brittainy Newman 011
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 18/07/2025Following a private morning audience with Pope Leo XIV at Castel Gandolfo, the “From Rome to New Rome” pilgrims continued their journey at the monastery of Grottaferrata. Read about it here: goarch.org/-/following-a-… 📸 by OO/Brittainy Newman 021
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 17/07/2025Archbishop Elpidophoros, Cardinal Tobin, and fifty pilgrims shared a private audience this morning with His Holiness Pope Leo XIV at the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo. Full article here: goarch.org/-/papal-audi... Photos by Orthodox Observer/Brittainy Newman 082
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 17/07/2025The joint pilgrimage “From Rome to New Rome” spent its first full day in the Eternal City, visiting the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, the catacombs of San Sebastián, and St. Peter’s Basilica. Read the full article here: goarch.org/-/faithful-par… 📸 by OO/Brittainy Newman 011
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 16/07/2025Following the CrossRoad Institute's two sessions in Boston to begin the summer, the program’s New York session came to an end on July 15, 2025. Read about their time here: goarch.org/-/crossroad-in… 📸 courtesy of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops 010
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 16/07/2025Today, a group of fifty Greek Orthodox, Byzantine Catholics, and Roman Catholics arrived in Rome, where they begin a joint pilgrimage entitled “Rome to New Rome.” Read about the first day of the pilgrimage here: goarch.org/-/arrival-in-r… 📸 by Orthodox Observer/Brittainy Newman 041
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 15/07/2025“Following in the footsteps of giants: Archbishop Elpidophoros continues the ecumenical legacy of his predecessors.” Read about the history of @goarch.org’s joint pilgrimage below. 📸 by Orthodox Observer/Brittainy Newman & ✍️ Ben Malian goarch.org/-/following-in… 011
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 14/07/2025From the Slavic Orthodox Vicariate: His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros celebrated the opening of a new church in Hot Springs, Arkansas, named after the Mother of God “Life-Giving Spring.” 📸 courtesy of the Slavic Orthodox Vicariate full article here: goarch.org/-/archbishop-e… 031
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 11/07/2025The Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate condemn the July 7 Israeli settler attack on the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh. More here: goarch.org/-/archons-ta.... Photo by J. McDowell/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 053
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 11/07/2025For Orthodox Christian Fellowship's Anna Sobchak, leading a pilgrimage to Greece was a full-circle moment. Read the full article here: goarch.org/-/anna-sobchak. 📷 courtesy of Orthodox Christian Fellowship 031
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 11/07/2025The Orthodox Christian Mission Center has announced that Dr. Nathan Hoppe has been selected to be its next executive director. Read the full announcement here: goarch.org/-/nathan-hoppe 📷 courtesy of the Orthodox Christian Mission Center 051
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 10/07/2025Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate: “It was not accidental that Greek became the language in which the foundational texts of the Church’s theology were expressed.” ✍️ Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate 📸 Orthodox Observer/Brittainy Newman Full article here: goarch.org/-/mother-ton... 042
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 09/07/2025@goarch.org has announced the schedule of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew's official visit to the U.S. in September. On his visit, His All-Holiness will receive the internationally-recognized Templeton Prize. 📸 by Orthodox Observer/Brittainy Newman 072
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 09/07/2025@goarch.org is proud to announce the participation of fifteen distinguished Greek American educators in a ten-day training program, held from July 8 to July 18, 2025, in Nicosia, Cyprus. 📸✍️ courtesy of the Department of Greek Education www.goarch.org/-/greek-amer... 021
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 01/05/2025His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America attended the National Day of Prayer at the invitation of President Trump at the White House on May 1, 2025. This annual observance, designated by the United States Congress and hosted each year by the President. www.goarch.org/-/archbishop... 262
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 10/04/2025Announcement from the Holy Eparchial Synod: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Awarded 2025 Templeton Prize: www.goarch.org/-/ep-templeton. 073
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 28/02/2025Today, on the occasion of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s 85th birthday, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America offered the following message: www.instagram.com/p/DGn_U6Pv8_Y/ Photos: Orthodox Observer/Brittainy Newman. 051
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 24/02/2025“Ukraine’s sovereignty is not up for debate, nor can it be negotiated away under the guise of diplomacy." Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on the Third Anniversary of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 23 February 2025: goarch.org/-/hah-ukraine. Photo: Nikos Papachristou/Ecumenical Patriarchate. 051
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 18/02/2025"The slogan of L100 is advancing Orthodoxy and Hellenism. Let’s always focus on that mission!" Read the Orthodox Observer's interview with Demetrios “Jim” Logothetis, Chairman of the Archbishop Iakovos Leadership 100 Fund: goarch.org/-/logothetis.... Photo: Orthodox Observer/Brittainy Newman. 052
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 02/02/2025Cheyenne, Wyoming celebrates historic visit of first archbishop in five decades: goarch.org/-/wyoming-he. Photos: Orthodox Observer/Brittainy Newman. 151
Orthodox Observer @orthodoxobserver.goarch.org · 28/01/2025Highlights from the Orthodox Observer's enthronement interview with Metropolitan Sevastianos. Full interview: www.goarch.org/-/the-sojourner-exclusive-interview-with-metropolitan-sevastianos. Photos: Orthodox Observer/Dimitrios Panagos. 0114