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THE SERVICE OF THE AKATHIST HYMN AT THE PATRIARCHATE

On the evening of Friday, March 18/31, 2023, in the context of the Service of the Small Compline and the Canon of the Theotokos, the Service of the Akathist was held in the Catholicon of the Church of the Resurrection, where the fours stasis of the Salutations to the Theotokos were recited.

The First Stasis was read by the officiating the service, His Beatitude the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos, the Second Stasis was read by the Geronda Secretary-General His Eminence Archbishop Aristarchos of Constantina, the Third Stasis was read by the Elder Sacristan His Eminence Archbishop Isidoros of Hierapolis, the Fourth and last was read by the Elder Dragoman Archimandrite Mattheos. The chanting was delivered by Hierodeacon Simeon and Mr Vassilios Gotsopoulos. The service was attended by the Consul General of Greece in Jerusalem Mr Evangelos Vlioras and members of the Church of Jerusalem and the Hagiotaphite Brotherhood.

From Secretariat-General