Metropolis of Demetrias and Almyros

What future for Europe? Nordic-Baltic Churches Meet, Prepare for CEC General Assembly With the Participation of the Volos Academy Director, Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis

Monday, 27 March, 2017

On 16 and 17 March in Reykjavik (Iceland) representatives from Conference of European Churches (CEC) Member Churches in the Nordic-Baltic region gathered for the first in a series of regional consultations leading to the 15th CEC General Assembly in Novi Sad (Serbia) in June 2018. Those gathered contributed to the discussion on the future of Europe launched last year in the CEC Open Letter and analysed the issues it presented from theological and socio-political perspectives. A first keynote in the Reykjavik meeting was delivered by...

The Theological School of Halki: the Vision for the Next Day

Tuesday, 14 March, 2017

On Saturday, March 11, 2017, a public lecture, delivered by the His Eminence Metropolitan of Bursa Elpidophoros (Ecumenical Patriarchate), Abbot of the Monastery of the Holy Trinity and Dean of the School of Theology of Halki on the topic “The Theological School of Halki: the Vision for the Next Day,” and organized by the Volos Academy for Theological Studies in cooperation with the Holy Metropolis of Demetrias, was successfully held in Volos, at the conference center “Forum”. In his welcome greetings Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis, the Director of...

HOMILY OF METROPOLITAN OF DIMITRIAS AND ALMYROS RIGHT REVEREND IGNATIOS FOR THE SUNDAY OF ORTHODOXY IN THE CATHEDRAL OF ATHENS 2017

Monday, 6 March, 2017

"A feast of joy and gladness is revealed today " (From the Praises in Matins on Sunday of Orthodoxy) Your Excellency Mr. President of the Greek Republic, Your Grace Archbishop of Athens and All Greece. This present day is considered a day of joy and triumph. Joy and triumph, not a religious dogma against anyone else. Neither a worldview at the expense of another. Today, what is honored, is man himself in his entirety. Man as body and soul, as something intangible, but also as something material, as something...