Following the voluntary resignation of the Metropolitan Germanos of Tranoupolis from the position of Head of Stavrodromio, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has appointed for the vacant position, Metropolitan Andreas of Saranta Ekklisies (Forty Churches), who assumes his duties at the beginning of the new ecclesiastical year, on the 1st of September.
The Ecumenical Patriarch announced the above through Patriarchal Letters to both his new representative and the Community under the chairmanship of George S. Papaliaris, while expressing orally and in writing his full goodwill to Germanos of Tranoupolis, for his long-term and very fruitful ministry in Stavrodromio, reserving to do so and in public during the feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos, a feast of the Cathedral of the same name in Peran.