The late Elder Metropolitan of Chalcedon, Meliton, would have celebrated his name day on the Feast of the Holy Forty Martyrs.
Today, Tuesday, March 9, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew offered a Trisagion in memory of the late Elder, accompanied by the new Elder Metropolitan of Chalcedon, Emmanuel, and Patriarchal Deacon, Oikoumenios Amanatidis, in the Cemetery of St. Ignatius of Chalcedon.