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Light and Water at Theophany and in Ancient Greece

By His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden Human experience, across all cultures and in every age, has associated two elements with the very core of life and salvation: light and water. Without light there is no vision, orientation, or knowledge; without water there is no life, purity, or renewal. It…
The Memory of Saint Basil the Great Is a Call to Imitation

By His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden The Orthodox Church, within her Spirit-filled treasury, has throughout the ages brought forth radiant figures who were not merely theologians, but living exemplars of faith, love, and ministry. The Church is not founded upon ideas or philosophical systems, but upon sanctified persons who…
The Fables of Aesop as a Preparation for the Gospel

By H.E. Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden From antiquity to the present day, humanity has sought ways to express truth, to teach virtue, and to demonstrate the consequences of human behavior. Two great pedagogical currents of history—seemingly different yet essentially convergent—are the fables of Aesop and the teaching of Christ, as…
What Begins in the Manger Is Fulfilled in the Tomb and Overturned in the Resurrection

By His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden Christ’s Nativity as a Prefiguration of His Burial and Resurrection in the Patristic and Liturgical Tradition The Mystery of the Incarnation of the Son and Word of God is not an isolated event within the history of the Divine Economia/Dispensation. The Nativity of…
Εσπερινός των Χριστουγέννων στον Καθεδρικό Ναό Αγίου Γεωργίου Στοκχόλμης.
Christmas Pastoral Encyclical 2025 To the Clergy and the Faithful of the Holy Metropolis of Sweden and All Scandinavia

Dearly Beloved Brothers & Sisters in the Incarnate Lord, As we approach the radiant Feast of the Nativity of our Lord, the Church once again invites us to contemplate the great and ineffable mystery of the Incarnation. The eternal Word of God, through Whom all things were made, humbles Himself,…
Ι. Μυστήριο του Χρίσματος σε τρία μέλη οικογένειας του Καθεδρικού Ναού Στοκχόλμης

Τρία μέλη οικογένειας του Καθεδρικού Ναού Στοκχόλμης έλαβαν το Ι. Μυστήριο του Χρίσματος, το Σάββατο, 20 Δεκεμβρίου 2025. Οι προσευχές μας θα τους συνοδεύουν στην ζωή τους.
St. George Cathedral of Stockholm, Sunday, December 21, 2025

Dearly Beloved Brothers and Sisters in the Lord Incarnate, At our gathering today, you will permit me to refer to two individuals, members of our local Church, who play a particularly important role in its life and activity, on the one hand because of their scientific and professional standing, and…
6th Meeting of Catechumens and Distribution of Catechetical Material in Stockholm

On the afternoon of Thursday, December 18th, 2025, the 6th consecutive meeting with the Catechumens and the newly illumined faithful took place at the premises of the Saint George Cathedral of Stockholm. It should be noted that this was preceded by a meeting between His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden…
“Sleep, My Little Angel, Sweetly to My Song”

By His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden In the depths of the Greek soul there are certain sounds that seem to have been born together with the light of this land/Greece. Among them stands out the sound of the lullaby: a primordial human act, an act of love, reconciliation, peace,…