On January 4, 2021, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew offered a Trisagion service for the late Metropolitan of Stavroupolis, Maximos, the last director of Halki seminary, who passed away thirty years ago. They laid flower at his tomb at the second cemetery of Church of St. Mary of the Spring in Balikli.
Metropolitans Eirinaios of Myriofyton and Peristasis, Gennadios of Sasima and Maximos of Sylivria accompanied prayerfully the Ecumenical Patriarch.