Earth Day
Earth Day is an annual event celebrated around the world on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First celebrated in 1970, it now includes events coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network in…
Anniversaries and commemorations
World Health Day 2020: WHO celebrates efforts of nurses and midwives in the year of pandemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) observes World Health Day on 7 April every year. The contribution of doctors, nurses and other health workers is acknowledged on this day. The tagline of World Health Day 2020…
International Children’s Book Day
Since 1967, on or around Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday, 2 April, International Children’s Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated to inspire a love of reading and to call attention to children’s books. Each year a different…
World Autism Awareness Day
World Autism Awareness Day is an internationally recognized day on 2 April every year, encouraging the Member States of the United Nations to take measures to raise awareness about people with autistic spectrum disorders including…
HB Arch. Hieronymos II of Athens celebrates his 82nd birthday
On March 10, 2020, His Beatitude Hieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece celebrates his 82nd birthday. His Beatitude Hieronymos II born Ioannis Liapis in Oinofyta, Boeotia, in 1938, is a graduate of the…
30 years since the Episcopal consecration of HB Romanian Patriarch Daniel
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel celebrates on 4 March 2020 his 30th anniversary of episcopal consecration. Patriarch Daniel, the sixth leader of the Romanian Orthodox Church, was born on 22 July 1951, in Dobreşti village, Bara commune,…
His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew celebrates his 80th Birthday
On Saturday, February 29, 2020, His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople celebrates his 80th birthday. Born Demetrios Archondonis on 29 February 1940 on the island of Imvros (today, Gökçeada, Turkey), His All-Holiness Bartholomew was…
42nd episcopal consecration anniversary of His Beatitude Chrysostomos II
His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus, celebrates on 26 February 2020 his 42nd episcopal consecration anniversary. He was born in Tala village, Paphos. At the age of 10 he lost…
Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte’s 7th enthronement anniversary
Monday, February 24, His Beatitude Patriarch Neophyte celebrates his 7th enthronement anniversary as Primate of Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Patriarch Neophyte (Bulgarian: Патриарх Неофит, secular name Simeon Nikolov Dimitrov; born 15 October 1945, Sofia) is the…
Patriarch of Alexandria celebrates his name day
His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, on the feast of Great Martyr Theodore the Tyro, celebrates his name day. His Beatitude (born Nicholas Horeftakis), was born in Crete in 25 November 1954,…