On Monday, September 6, 2021, Metropolitan Ilias of Philomilion paid a visit to the Halki seminary, Hierarchically Head of the Albanian-speaking Communities of the USA under the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
The Metropolitan and his entourage were received by the Abbot, Bishop Kassianos of Aravissos, and the brotherhood and were shown around the premises of the seminary.
Then the Metropolitan officiated from the parathronion the Vespers service for the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in the church of the seminary.