On Friday, March 29, 2024, the Ecumenical Patriarch attended prayerfully the Divine Liturgy of the Second Stasis of the Salutations to the Theotokos, presided over by Archbishop Makarios of Australia.
Archimandrite Kaisarios Chronis, Archivist of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, proclaimed the Divine Word.
Ambassador Konstantinos Koutras, Consul General of Greece in Constantinople, and many believers from Constantinople and pilgrims from abroad prayed together.
On the morning of the same day, the Ecumenical Patriarch presided over the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. In the afternoon, he conducted a Trisagion for the repose of the soul of the blessed Archimandrite Patrikios Kaleodis, a graduate of Halki.
Photos: Nikos Papachristou / Translated by Thanos Chrysanthopoulos