The newly elected Bishop Gregorios of Abydos was consecrated on Sunday of Gregory Palamas, at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Buenos Aires, the seat of the Metropolis of Argentina, an eparchy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Clergy, monastics, and laity from both Argentina and abroad attended the joyous occasion.
Metropolitan Joseph of Buenos Aires concelebrated the Divine Liturgy with the following hierarchs: Metropolitan Maximos of Ioannina, Metropolitan Sergios of Santiago and All Chile (Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch), Bishop Kirilo of Buenos Aires and South-Central America (Serbian Patriarchate), and Bishop Athenagoras of Nazianzos.
Bishop Athenagoras of Nazianzos extended Archbishop Elpidophoros of America’s blessings and heartfelt declarations of worthiness to their beloved brother in Christ, the newly consecrated Bishop of Abydos.