More than 80 Parish Council members from our 74 parishes in eight states gathered on Saturday, April 2nd at Annunciation Cathedral to review and share our ministries and opportunities in the Metropolis.

Members of the Diakonia Deca Board met on Saturday, April 2nd at the Metropolis Office.

On Friday, April 1st, nearly 50 members of the Metropolis Council met in Atlanta to share the progress of our strategic planning program and the Metropolis ministries being offered and planned.

Here’s an example of authentic grass roots fundraising. Congratulations Metropolitan Alexios and the Atlanta Community. Axios to all!

Over 70 college students from 8 states gathered at the Diakonia Retreat Center March 25-27, 2016 for their Bi-Annual WorkDaze Retreat.

The Summer Program for Young Orthodox Scholars provides promising High School and transfer students the opportunity to earn college credit while challenging themselves intellectually and spiritually. Students will live in residence on Eastern University’s campus with a select group of peers engaged in rigorous coursework and discussion of Great Books by Orthodox Christian literary figures.

The Orthodox Metropolitan of Belgium, Athenagoras (Ecumenical Patriarchate) has called for all religious leaders of Belgium to unite their voices and forces against terrorism.

On the Sunday of Orthodoxy, His All-Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew con-celebrated with the current members of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios joined His Brother Hierarchs, including His Eminence Metropolitan Isaiah of Denver, His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco and His Eminence Metropolitan Nikitas of the Dardanelles, along with Metropolitan Tikhon of the OCA.

Our Metropolis of Atlanta Philoptochos Society offered its 10th Annual Spiritual Retreat at our beautiful Diakonia Retreat Center, March 18-20.

On Saturday, March 12th, Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law & Justice spoke about Christian Genocide in Naples, FL. He encouraged us to petition our government and seek redress for the injustices against Christians, recognizing the slaughter of Christians in the Middle East as genocide.

Patriarchal and Synodical Encyclical on the Convocation of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church

On the Feast of St. Alexios, His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios, joined by Fr. George Tsahakis and Fr. Nicholas Kakavelakis celebrated the Presanctified Liturgy in the Metropolis' Archangel Michael Chapel. Metropolis and Cathedral staff offered a reception in His honor at the Annunciation Cathedral. May God grant Metropolitan Alexios many more years!

Nearly 70 of our active and retired clergy (Priests & Deacons) gathered at the Diakonia Retreat Center, March 1 - 3, 2016 for our semi-annual Clergy Syndesmos. His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios thanks our parishes for supporting our clergy's participation. He is grateful to Fr. Paul Costopoulos and Fr. Demetrios Kangelaris for sharing practical knowledge to benefit our clergy and thanks all our clergy that attended.

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Encyclical of Archbishop Demetrios for Holy and Great Lent 2016

On the occasion of our 50th Anniversary, we take this opportunity to recommit ourselves as Defenders of the Faith to the Spiritual Center of world Orthodoxy, the Ecumenical Patriarchate under the extraordinary leadership of His All-Holiness Bartholomew, who observes his 25th Anniversary as Ecumenical Patriarch on November 2, 2016. We recommit ourselves to fighting for religious freedom and the vitality of Saint Andrew's See, notwithstanding the oppressive environment where it is located and where religious freedom does not exist in that entire part of the world.

Third Presidential Newsletter for 2016

The Catholic-Orthodox Ecumenical Gathering was held Dec. 7, 2015, at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation in Atlanta.

NEW YORK— On the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Orthodox and Catholic Christians will join in prayer and public gathering to express their long-standing belief that all life is sacred.

The Ecumenical Patriarchate hosted a meeting of thirty scholars on January 4-5, 2016. The purpose of the encounter was to establish connections with theologians and academics working in various disciplines and ministries throughout the world in order to become better acquainted with their interests and aspirations for the church, especially in light of the Holy and Great Council. Pictured are Professor Archon George Demacopoulos and Professor Archon Aristotle Papanikolaou, co-founders of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University, along with Dr. Elizabeth Prodromou, Former Vice Chair, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and speaker at the 2013 Archon International Conference on Religious Freedom in Berlin, were among many of the scholars present.