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April 14, 2025 -- Patriarchal Encyclical from His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew for Great and Holy Pascha   English  Greek

April 14, 2025 -- Encyclical from His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America on Great and Holy Pascha  English   Greek

March 25, 2025 -- Archiepiscopal  Encyclical for Greek Independence DayEnglish   Greek

March 9, 2025 -- Archiepiscopal Encyclical for Sunday of Orthodoxy 2025 from His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America  English   Greek

December 23, 2024 -- 2024 Patriarchal Encyclical for Christmas   English   Greek

December 23, 2024 -- Archiepiscopal Encyclical for Christmas from His Eminence, Archbishop Elpidophoros of America   EnglishGreek

December 1, 2024 -- Encyclical from His Eminence, Archbishop Elpidophoros of America for Archon Sunday -- English   Greek

November 28, 2024 -- Encyclical from His Eminence, Archbishop Elpidophoros of America for Thanksgiving -- English   Greek 

November 17, 2024 -- Encyclical from His Eminence, Archbishop Elpidophoros of  America, upon the occasion of National Philoptochos Sunday -- English   Greek

November 10, 2024 --Encyclical for the Feast of the Archangels from His Eminence, Archbishop Elpidophoros of America -- English   Greek

November 3, 2024 -- Encyclical for the Feast of the Holy Unmercenaries, Saints Cosmas and Damianos from His Eminence, Archbishop Elpidophoros of America -- English   Greek

October 27, 2024 --  Encyclical for Leadership 100 from His Eminence, Archbishop Elpidophoros of America -- English   Greek

October 27, 2024 -- Encyclical for OXI Day from His Eminence, Archbishop Elpidophoros of America -- English   Greek

September 1, 2024 -- Patriarchal Message for the Indiction and Opening of the Ecclesiastical Year from His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew -- English   Greek

July 17, 2024 -- Encyclical from His Eminence, Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, upon the 50th Anniversary of the unlawful invasion of Cyprus -- English   Greek

July 26, 2023 -- Encyclical from His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros on Bishop Apostolos' election as Metropolitan of New Jersey.  English

June 18, 2023 -- Encyclical from His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America for Father' Day -- English   Greek

April 13, 2023 -- Encyclical from His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America on Great and Holy Pascha -- English   Greek

February 23, 2023 -- Catechetical Homily for the Opening of Holy and Great Lent from His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew -- English   Greek

January 1, 2023 --  Encyclical from His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America on the New Year 2023 -- English  Greek

December 25, 2022 -- Encyclical from His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America on the Feast of Christmas -- English   Greek

November 24, 2022 -- Encyclical from His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America on Thanksgiving -- English    Greek

September 14, 2022 -- Encyclical from His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America on the Feast of the Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross -- English     Greek

July 4, 2022 -- Encyclical from His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America for the Fourth of July – 2022 -- English    Greek

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