Metropolitan Epiphaniy of Kyiv presided over the Vespers for the Sunday of Orthodoxy

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew prayerfully attended the Vespers service for the Sunday of Orthodoxy on Saturday, 8 March 2025, which was officiated by His Beatitude Metropolitan Epiphaniy of Kyiv and All Ukraine.

Hierarchs of the two Churches, along with the Abbots of the Athonite Monasteries of Pantokratoros and Xenophontos, Archimandrites Gabriel and Alexios, accompanied by members of their Brotherhoods, attended the service. Also present were the Abbess Iakovi of the Hermitage of the Holy Prodromos in Akritochori, with members of the Sisterhood, Archon Exarchos Athanasios Martinos, President of the Brotherhood of Archons of the Great Church of Christ “Panagia Pammakaristos,” together with Archons, as well as many believers from Constantinople and pilgrims from abroad.

After the conclusion of the Vespers, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew conferred the Offikion of Archon Protonotarios of the Holy Great Church of Christ upon Mr. Spyridon Divanis, a distinguished economist and prominent figure in the hotel industry.

In his address, the newly appointed Archon expressed his deep gratitude to the Ecumenical Patriarch for the great honour bestowed upon him.

Photographs: Nikos Papachristou