His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided at the Divine Liturgy for the feast of Pentecost, today, June 7, at the Patriarchal Church, concelebrated by the Metropolitans Theoleptos of Iconium and Athenagoras of Kydonia.
After the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy, His All-Holiness presided over the service of the Vespers of the Holy Spirit, during which he also read the blessings of the Kneeling Prayers.
Present were His Eminence Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Myra, His Eminence Archbishop Anthidonos Nektarios, Commissioner of the Holy Sepulcher in the City, the Honorable Mrs. Georgia Sultanopoulou, Consul General of Greece, as well as a small number of believers, observing the precautionary measures, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
On the eve of the feast, in the afternoon, His All-Holiness presided in Chorostasia at Holy Vespers.