The memory of the Three Hierarchs and “Patrons of Letters” was honored with special solemnity at the Holy Center of the First-Throned Church of Constantinople today, Friday, January 29, 2021, one day early, as travel restrictions apply during the weekend as part of coronavirus precautions.

His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch presided from the Throne at the Divine Liturgy celebrated at the All-Holy Patriarchal Church, concelebrated by Their Eminences the Metropolitans Apostolos, Geron of Derkon, Meliton of Philadelphia, Irenaios of Myriophytos and Peristasis, Chrysostomos of Myra, Stefanos of Kallioupolis and Madytos, Athenagoras of Kydonia, Maximos of Silyvria, Bartholomew of Smyrna and Vissarion of Spain and Portugal.

(Photos by N. Manginas)