Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided over the Divine Liturgy on the Sunday of the Paralytic at the Patriarchal Cathedral behind closed doors due to the measures against the coronavirus pandemic, surrounded only by the members of the Patriarchal Court.
On the day before the feast, the Ecumenical Patriarch presided over the Vespers service.
On Saturday, May 9, the day on which the Orthodox Church celebrated the memory of Saint Ieronymos Simonopetritis for the first time after the saint’s canonization by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Ecumenical Patriarch received in audience Deacon Ieronymos Sotirelis, an executive of the English Office of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, who paid his respects to the Ecumenical Patriarch and received the patriarchal blessing on his name day.
