The Divine Liturgy for the great feast of the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross was celebrated at the Patriarchal Church of St. George at the Phanar.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided over the Divine Liturgy, with members of the Holy and Sacred Synod and other Metropolitans currently in Constantinople where they attended the service.
The Ecumenical Patriarchate is celebrating today, Monday, September 14, the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, one of the major feasts of the Orthodox Church.
Following the Divine Liturgy, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew conferred the title of Archon Offikialios of the Holy Great Church of Christ upon Professor Apostolos Kralidis of Thessaloniki.
