The Archimandrite officium of the Ecumenical Throne was bestowed today, Friday, August 30, at the Phanar, by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Archimandrite Nektarios Tsolidis, Head of the Holy Monastery of Dormition of Virgin Mary in Nea Philothei, Palaio Psychiko, in the presence of Metropolitan Theodoritos of Laodikea.
The Ecumenical Patriarch, with the consent of the Archbishop of Athens, honored the clergyman of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens for his long ministry to his fellow men and his selfless contribution from whatever positions the Church entrusted him with, as well as for his timeless respect for the Ecumenical Patriarchate.