Easter always goes hand in hand with the search for authenticity. For the authentic Epitaph procession, good company for the subsequent authentic feast, the authentic Greek landscape, the authentically spiritual experience of the Resurrection service.
Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios fulfilled a 10-year promise to mark Easter on the Turkish island of Imvros (Gokceada) where he was born.
SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras visited the naval base on the island of Corfu on Easter Sunday, accompanied by local SYRIZA MP Alexandros Avlonitis, and met with the commanding officer.
Nikos Androulakis sent out a message on Sunday to mark Greek Orthodox Easter, in which he emphasizes the need to support Greece’s younger generations.
Without the Resurrection, our obligations towards the world, the planet, the climate, nature, the value of man, therefore also his intelligence, natural and artificial, but certainly also emotional, do not acquire their full dimensions. It is easy to expect a metaphoric resurrection, synonymous with ascension, recovery or transcendence. A political, economic and even national resurrection. […]
The Holy Fire arrived in Athens on a special flight from Jerusalem on Thursday evening. Specifically, the delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Andreas Katsaniotis received the Holy Fire from the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III and arrived at 8.31 p.m. on an Aegean Airlines flight.
I look forward to the resurrection of freedom, sensitivity, and humanness, but above all of love and affection.
Thousands of Palestinian Christians and pilgrims from around the world filled Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday to celebrate the Orthodox Holy Light ceremony, under a heavy Israeli police presence that has drawn anger from churches.
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou will attend the midnight Anastasi (Resurrection) Mass on Holy Saturday at the Athens Cathedral tonight, her office said.
People arrange flowers on the bier representing the burial of Christ at Kaisariani Monastery in Athens on the morning of Good Friday.
Worshipers carry the Epitaph in the sea, while others light flares, during the Holy Friday celebrations of Orthodox Easter at the Tolo beach, eastern Peloponnese, in Greece, on April 14, 2023.
Political leaders have attended Good Friday ceremonies and the Epitaphios processions. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis attended ceremonies on Tinos while SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras attended ceremonies on Corfu.
Police in central Athens removed animal rights activists from Syntagma Square as the Good Friday candlelit Epitaphios (funerary) procession was taking place.
The Holy Fire, flown to Greece each year from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, is set to arrive on a special Aegean Airlines flight on Saturday evening, in time for Easter midnight mass.
The annual Easter exodos of Athenians from the capital picked up pace at Attica’s ports, motorways and airports on Good Friday.
Throughout Greece, there are many wonderful places with their own special approach to celebrating the Orthodox calendar’s most important week.
