Following the Royal Hours (First through Sixth), which were read on the morning of Great Friday, young men and women decorated the Epitaphios under the guidance of experienced older women. At 3:00 p.m., the Ninth Royal Hour was read, followed by Great Vespers of the Apokathelosis with a homily. At...

The great cosmic and salvific events of the Holy Passion and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ were celebrated in Japan as well, specifically in the cities of Tokyo (St. Alban’s Anglican-Episcopal Church), Nagoya (Chikaramachi Catholic Church), Okinawa (St. Nicholas), and Yokosuka (Chapel of Hope).  Priests Fr. Paul Koroluk, Fr. Andrew Kearns, and Fr....

Prot. No. 279 † B A R T H O L O M E W BY THE MERCY OF GOD ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE – NEW ROME AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH TO THE ENTIRE PLENITUDE OF THE CHURCH: GRACE, PEACE, AND MERCY FROM CHRIST, RISEN IN GLORY * * * Most honourable...

On the weekend of March 28 and 29, 2026, the 23rd Annual Byzantine Studies Conference was held in Tokyo, Japan, organized by the Japan Association for Byzantine Studies at Waseda University. His Eminence Metropolitan Ambrosios of Korea and Exarch of Japan was invited as the keynote speaker, presenting on the...

From March 6 to 23, with the blessing of His All-Holiness our Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the canonical permission of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, Metropolitan Ambrosios of Korea and Exarch of Japan visited the Holy Metropolis of Chicago at the invitation of its local hierarch, His Eminence Metropolitan...