Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria presided over the Divine Liturgy for the Sunday of Orthodoxy in the Church of the Annunciation in Alexandria, just a few days before the 200th anniversary of the 1821 Greek Revolution.
During the Divine Liturgy, the Patriarch spoke about a great figure of Christianity who was to play one of the most important roles in the Greek Revolution of 1821, vigorously fighting for the freedom of the Greek nation, Patriarch of Alexandria Theophilos Patmios.
The Patriarch of Alexandria stressed: “If during the holy struggle of 1821, the sacred Ecumenical Patriarchate had Patriarch Gregory V, if Greece had Germanos of Old Patras, the Patriarchate of Alexandria had Patriarch of Alexandria Theophilos Patmios who defended Orthodoxy and Greek community.”
The Patriarch of Alexandria referred to the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution of 1821 during the service which was attended by authorities for the Consulate and the Greek community, the Patriarchal Vicar of Alexandria, Metropolitan Narcissus of Naucratis, and Bishop Germanos of Tamiatheus.
“It had been two hundred years and Greece and Cyprus keep hoping, raising the Cross of Orthodoxy, thousands of children are getting baptized in Africa! Two hundred years now that the banner of Freedom is waving so that the peoples of the earth can be free.
In fact, it is characteristic that Alexandros Ypsilantis called Theophilos “the splendor of the Patriarchs, the glory of the Nation and the support of Greece”, as mentioned in the archives of the Patriarchate of Alexandria.
In fact, during the same service, the Patriarch of Alexandria spoke about “the memory and gratitude to the benefactors of the Greek Community of Alexandria and the whole parish and those who fought for the homeland and concluded:
“The peoples of the earth live by their history. And they do not die! Because they know how to sing and chant their freedom.”
Source: ANA-MPA