Theodore Kalmoukos

BOSTON – Metropolitan Dionysios of Corinth has fallen asleep in the Lord at the age of 72. In recent days, he had been hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital in Athens. Metropolitan Ieronymos of Kalavryta has been appointed locum tenens of the now-vacant Metropolis of Corinth. The

BOSTON – From now on, the entrance of service dogs into churches across the Archdiocese in the U.S. will be permitted – meaning specially trained dogs that accompany and guide people with special needs, such as the blind. To this end, a decision was made during the recent meeting of the Archdiocesan

BOSTON – The distinguished Greek-American orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Efstathios (Steven) Mattheos, received a big surprise on the evening of Friday, September 19, 2025, at the well-known Greek-American restaurant Ithaki in Peabody, MA. His parents, Dimitrios and Despina Mattheos of Lowell, together wit

BOSTON - Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has hired a private investigator to investigate the members of the Archdiocesan Executive Committee for a leak to the press (The National Herald) from the September 30, 2025 meeting, during which the issue of the community of the Cathedral of St. Demetrios

BOSTON - Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Turkey at the end of November will not take place solely for the purpose of participating in the Thronal Feast of the Church of Constantinople on the feast day of St. Andrew, November 30, nor merely for the commemoration of the 1,700th anniversary of the convening of

BOSTON — The community of the Holy Apostle Philip in Nashua, New Hampshire, celebrated its feast day on Sunday, November 16, with a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy presided over by His Eminence Metropolitan Methodios of Boston, assisted by the parish priest Rev. Fr. Paul Bebis and Deacon Vasilios Panago

BOSTON – The great island of Crete has been shaken by the unexpected decision of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who convened the Synod and effectively removed Metropolitan Irinaios of Lambi, Syvritos, and Sfakia from his Diocese—without his consent and without even informing him. The Patriarch ju

BOSTON. The Board of Trustees of Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, chaired by Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, decided on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, to sell a large portion of its real estate (land) to an environmental company, as The National Herald had

Yet another local Church—this time the Semi-Autonomous Church of Crete, whatever this “semi-autonomous” status may actually signify—has in recent months suffered from a chain of untimely and improper interventions. These have come both from external actors and from internal omissions, maneuvers, and

BOSTON – After many years of inactivity, the Lesvos Association of New England has been reconstituted. The first — and fruitful — meeting of the renewed Association took place on the afternoon of Sunday, December 28, 2025, in the community hall of the Taxiarches Parish in Watertown. The meeting open