Click here for the Calendar of services for Holy Week and Pascha. Lent is now over and we now enter the two festive days of the feasts of the rising of Lazarus from the dead and Palm Sunday. These days

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Λόγω των υφιστάμενων περιοριστικών μέτρων εξαιτίας της πανδημίας του κορονοϊού και για να διευκολυνθεί η συμμετοχή των πιστών στις ακολουθίες της Αγίας Μεγάλης Εβδομάδας και του Πάσχα, σας παρακαλούμε όπως για κάθε συμμετοχή σας στην εκκλησία έχετε κάνει κρατήση θέσεως

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Schedule of Services The schedule of services for this week is available on our calendar. The readings and sermon for the Fifth Sunday of Lent can be found on the Archdiocese website here. The church is open for public worship under

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Schedule of Services The schedule of services for this week is available on our calendar. This week, being the Fifth Week of Great Lent we have Great Compline with the full canon of Saint Andrew of Crete with the reading of

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Photographs from Lenten Vespers in Birmingham where there was a large delegation of clergy from the Midlands and members of local communities to share the joy of Lent and to be crowned with the presence of His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas

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It is with a heavy heart that we learned of the falling asleep of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle. His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas and the entire Greek

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Latest photographs of the wall paintings of the Women Saints. Visit our Future Projects page for more information on wall paintings, church extension and new land project.

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When we first used the orchard, it was during mid-March. The children at Varangians were split into small groups. Each group were told to create a specific scene from the bible relating to the cross. Some of us made the

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Schedule of Services The schedule of services for this week is available on our calendar. We will continue to broadcast our services live on mixlr.com when possible. The church is open for public worship under the guidance issued by our archdiocese.  Appeal! Appeal! Appeal!

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“Not long now, dear – we’ll soon be there.” Our “strapline”, ever since the Ark opened in 2008, has been “Helping homeless and vulnerable people to weather the storms of life” and, with everyone else, the Ark has been weathering

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Appeal for Sunday School Teachers Do you enjoy working with young people? Are you passionate about your Faith? Do you want to make a positive change to the lives of our children? Can you offer your time and talents to your church community? Continue reading →

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The youth club of our community was not able to meet during the last lock down. But that didn’t stop them from getting together for high drama: recording a Kontakion of one the Church’s greatest poets of all time, St

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Work is rapidly moving forward on wall paintings on the North and South walls of our beloved church. Apostle Andrew, Emperor Constantine the Great, Cuthbert the Wonderworker, Luke of Simferopol, Oswald the King and Martyr and Alban the Protomartyr of Britain are now nearly complete. Continue reading →

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On 26 March Father Pancratios, priest in charge of the Church of Saint Barbara and Alban the Protomartyr of Britain (our mother community) celebrated the 25th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood! Axios!!! Congratulations!!!

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Schedule of Services The schedule of services for this week is available on our calendar. We will continue to broadcast our services live on mixlr.com when possible. The church is open for public worship under the guidance issued by our archdiocese.  Appeal from the

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Ptolemaic beads have recently fetched £9,000 at auction to raise funds for the church after being bought at auction in 1966 for only four pounds. Continue reading →

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Schedule of Services The schedule of services for this week is available on our calendar. The New Testament readings and sermon for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son are available on the archdiocese website. We will continue to broadcast our services live

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While in Ukraine in October 2018, Fr Stephen met and concelebrated the Liturgy with Archbishop Jonah Cherepenov of Obukhov, the Abbot of the Trinity Ioninsky Monas-tery, Kiev. Archbishop Jonah generously presented Fr Stephen with six relics from incorrupt saints of

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Preparation for Great Lent On the Friday before we start the time of the Triodion and the preparation for Great Lent the Fathers have set us to read the beginning of the second letter of St Peter: “ His divine

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Message of His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira & Great Britain for the beginning of the Holy and Great Lent My son, deprive not the poor of his living,and do not keep needy eyes waiting.Do not grieve the one who

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