The Ecumenical Patriarchate announced that on the feast of the Holy Martyr Sebastian, the Ecumenical Patriarch will preside over the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Church on Monday, December 18, at 9:30 am.
After the end of the Divine Liturgy, the Ecumenical Patriarch and the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate will perform the signing ceremony of the acts of the newly-canonized saints of the Orthodox Church: a) Nun Gabrielia (Papagianni), of Constantinople, of Leros, b) Hieromonk Athanasios Hamakiotis, and c) Archimandrite Gervasios Paraskevopoulos.