Announcement on observance of measures by Church of Crete after yesterday’s statements of Eirinaios on face masks
One day after the stir created yesterday with the statement of Archbishop Eirinaios of Crete, the Archdiocese of Crete issued ...
Friday, May 8, 2026
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Archbishop of Crete: We should not wear a face mask inside the church (video) (upd)
LAST UPDATE: 17:20 The statement of Archbishop Eirinaios of Crete regarding the use of face mask inside the churches has ...
Archbishop of Crete: Do not wear masks in the church
A statement that will be discussed was made earlier in the morning by Archbishop Eirinaios of Crete, during the Divine ...
Archdiocese of Crete: We experience the new insult to the Orthodox Church with indignation and pain
An announcement on the occasion of the conversion of the Chora Church into a mosque was issued by the Archdiocese ...
Archbishop of Crete: The virus is not a blow to the Church, but a blow to selfishness and arrogance
"The pandemic of the coronavirus revealed the smallness of man and overthrew his apparent omnipotence." This was emphasized in an ...
Priests in Chania preach disobedience to measures for coronavirus – Metropolitan of Kydonia condemns the incidents
There are more and more complaints, that have recently reached the Chania Police Department, about priests in churches in the ...
Church of Crete: Declares a ten-minute mourning knell in all its temples on July 24
The Church of Crete expressed its sorrow too for the conversion of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople into a mosque and ...
Metropolitan of Rethymno: Hagia Sophia is treasure that belongs to all humanity
In an interview with the radio station TEAM FM, Metropolitan Evgenios of Rethymno spoke of the "instrumentalisation" of the whole ...
Church of Crete on Hagia Sophia: Respect for History and for the coexistence of peoples
The Church of Crete emphasized, in its today's meeting for July, the need to maintain the current status of Hagia ...
Church of Crete: Receiving the Holy Communion presupposes faith without doubt
The debate around the Holy Communion has "unduly" arisen, the Church of Crete stated in a relevant announcement. The hierarchs ...
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