Alexandria: Divine Liturgy and Memorial service at the Chapel of Saint Catherine

On the day of the feast of the Three Hierarchs, the Protopresbyter P. Panos Gazis conducted a Divine Liturgy at the Chapel of Saint Catherine at the Greek Community of Alexandria. His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa presided over the service from the Throne.

Then followed a Memorial Service, as a deeper and inner need of the Protopresbyter P. Panos Gazis, for two loved Hierarchs of Orthodoxy, the late Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens and All Greece and the late Metropolitan Nikiforos Dedousis of Lefkada and Ithaca, with whom he had been associated with special love and devotion.

Archimandrite Elpidophoros together with students of the Patriarchal School prayed, while Archimandrite Isaac, Head of the Seminary of the Patriarchate, chanted.

The Divine Liturgy of the Three Hierarchs and the Memorial were attended by Ambassador Athanasios Kotsionis with his wife Ioanna, the Director of the Greek Community George Boulos, while from the Greek Schools, the Coordinator of Education Sotiria Beta and the directors Paschalina Agapiadou, Konstantinos Rigas, Lena Vostani along with all the teachers and the Secretary of Averofio Mary Mavrikou.

Source: ekalexandria.org

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